Shane’s 100% ROCK MAGAZINE 2013 Roundup

2013 ROUND-UP
By Shane Pinnegar
ALBUMS

1. Hey!Hello! – Hey!Hello!

When Ginger Wildheart came off the back of 2012’s roaringly successful 555% triple album, and teamed up with New Yorker Victoria Liedtke, no-one could have expected such a near-perfect collection of power pop hard rockers, capped off by the irresistible state-of-the-music-industry rant How I Survived The Punk Wars.

2. Joan Jett – Unvarnished

3. Motorhead – Aftershock

4. Kings Of The Sun – Rock Til Ya Die!

5. Dan Baird & Homemade Sin – Circus Life

6. Quireboys – Beautiful Curse

7. Black Star Riders – All Hell Breaks Loose

8. Stereophonics – Graffitti On The Train

9. Sammy Hagar – Sammy Hagar & Friends

10. Down & Dirty – Down To The Wire

11. The Temperance Movement – The Temperance Movement

12. Alter Bridge – Fortress

13. Trucker Diablo – Songs Of Iron

14. Deep Purple – Now What?!

15. Los Bastardos Finlandeses – Day Of The Dead

16. Iggy & The Stooges – Ready To Die

17. Ghost – Infestissumum

18. The Dead Daisies – The Dead Daisies

19. Black Sabbath – 13

20. Vdelli – Never Going Back

21. Vida Cain – The Rule Of Gravity

22. Gary Clark Jr – Blak n’ Blu

23. Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt

24. The Sick Livers – Motors, Women, Drugs, Booze and Killing

25. Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp – Turn Up The Sun

26. Baby Animals – This Is Not The End

27. The Volcanics – Get A Move On

28. David Bowie – The Next Day

29. Maxine Petrucci – Back To The Garden

30. Crashdiet – The Savage Playground

31. Michael Monroe – Horns & Halos

32. Queens Of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork

33. Wicked Wench – Evil

34. Coney Hatch – Four

35. The Answer – New Horizon

36. Newsted – Heavy Metal Music

37. Alice In Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

38. Buddy Guy – Rhythm & Blues

39. Star & Dagger – Tomorrowland Blues

40. Dirty York – Feed The Fiction

41. Zebrahead – Call Your Friends

42. Tracer – El Pistolero

43. Tom Keifer – Life Goes On

44. Buckcherry – Confessions

45. Stonefield – Stonefield

46. Black Veil Brides – Reckless & Divine

47. Houndmouth – From The Hills Below The City

48. Volbeat – Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

49. Vista Chino – Peace

50. Monster Magnet – Last Patrol

 

EPs

1. 100 Watt Vipers – Travel n’ Shoes

A Southern, swampy, blues rock bonanza that brought the frustrations of many Americans and the Florida humidity to a raucous head in this two man band that is just as rock n’ roll than The White Stripes or The Black Keys.

2. The Devil Rides Out – Ugly Creatures

3. Empra – Strange Condition

4. Tigertailz – Knives

5. Ghost – If You Have Ghost

6. The Jet 65 – Bloody Knuckle Blues

7. Anthrax – Anthems

8. Wiked Fury – Scars under My Skin

9. Skid Row – United World Rebellion: Chapter One

10. Stone Temple Pilots featuring Chester Bennington – High Rise

 

LIVE

1. West Coast Blues & Roots Festival, Fremantle Park, 23-24 March 2013

Day One – Russell Morris, Chris Isaak, Status Quo, Robert Plant, Iggy & The Stooges & more. A stunning lineup to celebrate the festival’s tenth anniversary topped off by frenetic boogie from Status Quo, Iggy & The Stooges Detroit mayhem, and the piece du resistance, a literally sensational set of artistry that blended Led Zeppelin fury with world music magic from Robert Plant and The Sensational Shape Shifters.

Day Two – The Domnicks, Steve Miller Band, Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Ben Harper, Jimmy Cliff, Paul Simon. Even more rock legends round out an unbeatable weekend of music, highlit by all-killer sets of classics from Santana, Jimmy Cliff and Paul Simon.

2. You Am I, The Astor Theatre, 13 July 2013

3. The Bellrays, Fly By Night Club, Fremantle, 21 November 2013
4. Kiss/Motley Crue/Thin Lizzy, Perth Arena, 28 February 2013

5. Stereophonics, Metro City, Perth, 25 July 2013

6. Rose Tattoo, The Charles Hotel, Perth, 31 May 2013

7. Black Sabbath, Perth Arena, 4 May 2013

8. Stone Music Festival – Van Halen, Aerosmith, Kings Of Chaos, Jimmy Barnes, The Living End, Noiseworks, Buckcherry. ANZ Stadium, Sydney, 20 April 2013

9. Hoodoo Gurus’ Dig It Up Festival – Hoodoo Gurus, Blue Oyster Cult, The Flamin’ Groovies, The Buzzcocks, Deniz Tek, Lime Spiders, Blackie, Peter Case Band, Tumbleweed. Enmore Theatre & surrounds, Sydney, 21 April 2013

10. The Devil Rides Out EP launch, with Chainsaw Hookers, Amplifier Bar, Perth, 28 June 2013

11. Steel Panther/Buckcherry/Fozzy, Metro City, Perth, 12 December 2013

12. Ringo Starr’s Allstarr Band, Challenge Stadium, Perth, 21 February 2013

13. Dave Warner’s From The Suburbs, The Charles Hotel, Perth, 24 August 2013

14. Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Charles Hotel, Perth, 19 February 2013

15. Evening On The Green – Elvis Costello, The Sunnyboys, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Kings Park, Perth, 6 February 2013

 

Thanks for all your support in 2013 – here’s to a great 2014 for us all and for rock n’ roll!!

 

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