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Graham Bonnet Announced For Hard Rock Hell AOR 2
Rainbow vocalist Graham Bonnet plus New York’s Tyketto, ‘Europe’ guitarist Kee Marcello and the 1990s Los Angeles glam-rockers Love/Hate have all been announced for Hard Rock Hell AOR 2. HRH AOR in...
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Poodle Hair Bands Announced for HRH AOR
HRH AOR, Europe’s biggest AOR residential festival, has announced the first 10 bands for 2015. Included in this early announcement is Starz- the power pop band from New Jersey, United States. Starz has...
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Röyksopp & Robyn Do It Again
Röyksopp & Robyn are currently on their #DoItAgainTour ‘Do It Again’ is the first single taken from the critically acclaimed, chart topping mini album – a collaboration between the Norwegian...
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Time to Topple the Golden Calf
16-17 is the ideal age for young lads and girls to be playing rock and roll. This is the age of revolution, rebellion and angst. The age when emotions are running fast through healthy veins. When...
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Kygo to Replace Avicii
The unstoppable force that is 23 year old Norwegian producer Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll better known by his stage-name known Kygo - has announced a set of European dates for this winter. The tour will span 15...
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Smile Swamp Princess
Just when you thought it was safe to put away your Rocky Horror fish-nets – and place your Meatloaf albums in the loft – out comes a new intergalactic gothic-love rock opera. A unique live acoustic /...
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Raw Ramp Best Albums 2014
1: FKA twigs LP1 FKA Twigs – haunts your synapses like banshee caught in a bottle… Gloucestershire (UK) born Tahliah Debrett Barnett - FKA twigs – self-released her imaginatively titled...
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Rising Ramp 2015
Our 2015 Watch Report Artists to Watch 1: Young Fathers Young Fathers – bottle rattles and pumpkin-pea confusedness… Mercury Award winning Edinburgh trio – they play kind-hearted...
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Raw Ramp 2014 Music Quiz
Question 1: How many band members are in Bournemouth (UK) band East India Youth? Question 2: In 2014 this band won the Mercury Prize for their album Dead. But who are they?...
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The Enid present “The Bridge”
After The ENID album “Invicta” – Robert John Godfrey and Joe Payne (vocalist and Electric Wind Instrument) wanted to explore the classical elements of the band’s music in more detail. Godfrey has...
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JJ GREY Talks About Ol’ Glory
We meet on a typically drenched English afternoon in the elegant surroundings of London’s Leonard Hotel. JJ Grey looks tidy and neat – keen and observant. His eyes flick this-way-and-that as if he is a...
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Beth Hart Better Than Home
Grammy nominated American singer-songwriter Beth Hart will be releasing her album ‘Better Than Home’ on 13th April 2015. In 2012, Beth appeared with Jeff Beck at the Kennedy Center Honors to celebrate...
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These are the Musicians Who Will Lead the Next Brit Invasion Stateside
They’re coming over and they mean business! Be careful America… There is a New Brit Invasion about to hit your shores! The next generation of musicians are muscling up to take the U.S by storm … And...
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Still Celebrating — Here Are 8 Good Things That Have Come Out of 60 Years of...
Here Are Eight Good Things that Came Out of Sixty Years of Eurovision 1: France Gall & Serge Gainsbourg France Gall – manipulated The eighteen year-old French ye-ye singer France Gall...
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The Simmer and Glamour of Bangkok Night-Life — This New Anthem by THE ISAN...
A song penned about the world’s largest adult playground “Nana” — in Bangkok — has topped the chart in Thailand. She’s taking me to Nana… “Nana” by “The Isan Project” Ft. Ex China Black front man...
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Life-Improving Indie Rock by FAIRCHILD — Stay Young — For Fans of Two Door...
FAIRCHILD have issued an amazing new track titled Stay Young from their Sadako EP. Gold Coast, Australia indie six-piece FAIRCHILD (now UK based) create an evocative blend of intimate, yet epic, rock....
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Ten of Todays Most Important and Exciting Bass Players
Emerging Bass Players of Distinction — Here is the Class of ’15 Sometimes bassists do not get the attention they deserve — but all musicians will tell you that it’s the bass-player who keeps things...
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Seven Aging Rock Stars Who Have Held On To Their Dignity in Retirement
Why don’t the Rolling Stones take it easy? Why don’t they sit down and write something symphonic? Something that’s cultivated… Something that is more befitting of their age and status? Hell, you...
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Forget Babymetal — Here are Five Bands You Can be Proud to Follow
Since the mid-1990’s cute girls as young as twelve have been recruited by the Japanese Talent Agencies to ‘become’ adorable little stars. The Japanese Idol system is all about manufacture, control and...
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Shark Sandwiches — The Worst Albums in Rock History
At RAW RAMP we judge albums by their immediacy, durability, memorability, cohesion, musicainship, artistry, achievement, instrumental prowess, composition, production and commercial viability. You...
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