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Hellfest 2020 Books Faith No More, Deftones, System of A Down, Korn, Judas Priest and More!

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Hellfest has announced its 15th-anniversary lineup for summer 2020, and it looks like a dream! Already announced Faith No More, and Down will be joined by Deftones, System Of A Down, Incubus, Korn, Mastodon, Opeth, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, The Offspring, Infectious Grooves, The Darkness, Obituary, Death DTA (the Death tribute featuring members of Death), At The Gates, Entombed AD, Sacred Reich, Devin Townsend, Meshuggah, The Black Dahlia Murder, Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Mayhem, Abbath, Rotting Christ, Primordial, The Great Old Ones, Wardruna, The Hu, Taake, Watain, Alcest, Borknagar, Gaahl’s Wyrd, Electric Wizard, Baroness, Om, Witchcraft, Black Mountain, Elder, ASG, Envy, Mono, John Garcia & the Band of Gold, High On Fire, Pelican, Killing Joke, Perturbator, Life of Agony, 3TEETH, Inter Arma, Body Count, Suicidal Tendencies, Youth of Today, Slapshot, Jesus Piece, Higher Power, Social Distortion, Anti-Flag, Agnostic Front, Reverend Horton Heat, Grade 2, Code Orange, and many more. Hellfest takes place June 19-21 in Clisson, France near Paris and ticket info is coming soon! Continue reading →


NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: October 4th New Music Releases

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Purchase and stream all the new music released today!

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Airbourne and Jesse Dayton added to Ramblin Man Fair

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Spirit Of Rock Presents the 2019 Ramblin’ Man Fair just added two more names to its already impressive lineup. Acclaimed rockers Airbourne join the bill, along with young Country renegade Jesse Dayton. This is with a lineup already led by Foreigner, The Darkness, Black Stone Cherry, The Wildhearts, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Living Color, Anathema, Riverside, Beth Hart, Richie Kotzen, Orange Goblin, The Obsessed, Crobot and more! Ramblin man takes place at Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent UK on 19th, 20th& 21st July 2019.Continue reading →


The Struts – Young and Dangerous

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With the resurgence of Classic Rock, bands like The Temperance Movement, Monster Truck and recently Greta Van Fleet, and the imminent release of the Bohemian Rhapsody film it is the perfect time for something new from The Struts. Formed in 2012, they are a four piece Rock band with an undimmed love for Queen, The Darkness and The Rolling Stones. Continue reading →


The Darkness – Live at Hammersmith

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Gimme a D! Gimme an arkness! Suffolk’s finest The Darkness are back with their first live album Live at Hammersmith (Cooking Vinyl), which as the name suggests was recorded at the London Hammersmith Apollo last year, during the Pinewood Smile supporting Tour De Prance. Continue reading →


The Darkness Prepares New Album For A Fall Release

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Long-running hit-making rockers The Darkness have returned with a brand new album, Pinewood Smile. Due this October 6th via Cooking Vinyl. The band recently finished a run of tour dates with Guns ‘N Roses and primed for more touring, to bring the new album to a wide audience.Continue reading →


The Darkness – Jennie Vee: Live at The House of Blues, Boston

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Sunday Funday turned into Girls Night Out over the weekend when one of my best friends and I ventured into Boston to catch The Darkness. Everyone knows that you can’t have a real GNO without British men in tight pants…Or British men in no pants, as we would soon discover.

Jenny Vee, by Matt Lambert

Jenny Vee, by Matt Lambert

The only opening band was Jennie Vee. They sounded like something that you would hear in a coming of age teen movie. It would probably star Ellen Page or something. It was your typical pop rock, nothing groundbreaking or shocking. There was no way that they were going to be able to compare to the energy of The Darkness. Someone else might more interested in them than I was, their music just didn’t move me.

The Darkness, by Matt Lambert

The Darkness, by Matt Lambert

I had not seen The Darkness since the Hot Cakes (Wind-Up) tour, where they played a small venue called The Paradise. That show had been absolutely insane and I had mixed feelings about them playing the House of Blues; I was glad that there was such a demand for them but I am also very selfish and like keeping bands to myself in tiny venues. Mine! Anyway, the boys opened their set with ‘Barbarian’ off of their latest record, The Last of Our Kind (Canary Dwarf Limited), before switching gears with one of my personal favorites; ‘Growing on Me’. You can bet I sang every word. Three other tracks off the new album appeared in the set, including; ‘Mudslide,’ ‘Roaring Waters,’ and ‘Open Fire’.

The Darkness, by Matt Lambert

The Darkness, by Matt Lambert

I got lucky with a few other favorites of mine in ‘Every Inch of You’ and an extra long version ‘Love on the Rocks with No Ice’ complete with crowd interaction and another round of Justin-Rides-a-Fan in which Justin Hawkins plays guitar atop a tall crowd member as they make their way through the audience. Always amusing. Speaking of amusing, shout out to whoever kept demanding that Justin take his pants off because he definitely did. Go you, anonymous audience member!

 

 

The Darkness, by Matt Lambert

The Darkness, by Matt Lambert

 

 

The Darkness, by Matt Lambert

The Darkness, by Matt Lambert

So, there you have it, British men in tight pants, British men in no pants, it was a party. Listen, I might live and die by stoner rock and the 90’s, but I love the big hair and men in tight pants that come with glam rock. I will never apologize for that (much to my editor’s dismay).

 

WORDS BY ALEIDA LA LLAVE

PHOTOS BY MATT LAMBERT


The Darkness Recruit New Drummer, New Album Due In March

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Emily Dolan Davies

Emily Dolan Davies

The Darkness have recruited Emily Dolan Davies (Bryan Ferry, Tricky) as their new drummer, replacing Ed Graham, who left the band in late 2014, due to health and personal issues. The band has just completed recording its new album, tentatively titled Cliffhanger, for a March 2015 release via Wind-Up.

Davies, who has previously worked with Bryan Ferry and Tricky, has “revitalized” THE DARKNESS, according to frontman Justin Hawkins. “She’s a hard hitter,” he tells UK’s Classic Rock magazine. “She’s got the chops and the attitude that you need to be THE DARKNESS’s drummer. She also makes us feel like dirty old men.”

Regarding THE DARKNESS’s split with founding member Graham in late 2014, Hawkins says: “Ed has had some well-publicized health problems in the past. And for one reason or another, he wasn’t capable of doing his job anymore. We’re still friends with Ed. But now that we have Emily in the band, the worry is gone.”