"The only stipulation on this record was to make a rockin' record from beginning to end. No ballads, no covers, and make the song quality really good." - Josh Todd
Review: VARIOUS ARTISTS – Magic Power: All-Star Tribute to TRIUMPH (2025)
Sometime back in the late '90s, there was a batch of "all-star" tribute albums produced and released by Deadline Music (Cleopatra Records). Those releases featured members of the bands I grew up listening to in the '80s. Some of the releases were solid, others not so much...
KNAC.COM Exclusive: Interview with GIL MOORE of TRIUMPH
"[Mike Levine] actually had our deal with Attic [Records] before we found Rik [Emmett]…Attic Records [asked] well who's the guitar player? [Mike] says don't worry, we'll have a great guitar player." - Gil Moore
KNAC.COM Exclusive: Interview with NIGE ROCKETT of ONSLAUGHT
"I think I've made it common knowledge over the years that 'In Search Of Sanity' was not my favorite ONSLAUGHT album…What should have been the up-shoot of our career, kind of destroyed the band." - Nige Rockett
KNAC.COM Exclusive: Interview with RICHIE CAVALERA of INCITE
"This is me continuing on the Cavalera legacy, but my style and my way. Not what everyone thinks it should be." - Richie Cavalera
KNAC.COM: GRAHAM BONNET BAND & CRYSTAL FOGG live in MA
After an 8-song set from openers CRYSTAL FOGG and a short intermission, Bonnet and his cohort ripped it up from the start with a strong focus on the RAINBOW material the singer recorded for the group's 1979 album Down To Earth...
KNAC.COM Exclusive: Interview with JIMMY JAY of H.E.A.T.
“There is definitely a meaning behind [H.E.A.T], but we have sworn to each other that we will never spill the beans." - Jimmy Jay
KNAC.COM Exclusive: Interview with AIRFORCE
"[Paul Di'Anno was] a little bit of a punk. I've actually got a Punk album with Paul, and it's absolutely fantastic...but you couldn't release it cuz you'd get arrested." - Chop Pittman
KNAC.COM: L.A. GUNS & ALL SINNERS live in MA
Saturday may be alright for fighting, but truth be told I would much rather skip the fisticuffs and check out some live music. And that's just what fellow KNAC.COM scribe George Dionne and I did recently as the L.A. GUNS "Lucky MF'r" Tour made its sold out stop in New Bedford, MA.…
KNAC.COM Exclusive: Interview with TRACII GUNS of L.A. GUNS
"[Frontiers] started having problems with their marketing department and stuff like that, and they let me go. It was a big relief...before Black Diamonds I tried to get out and they wanted to sue me." - Tracii Guns