Rockstar

Es ist kalt in Harlem, New York als Stefan Dettl im Winter mit seinem Trompetenkoffer vor dem verschlossenem Apollo Theater steht. Dort wo Soul-Größen wie James Brown oder Aretha Franklin legendäre Konzerte gaben und die Fans in Extase versetzten, blickt der Chiemgauer auf die großen körnigen Fotoaufnahmen in der Eingangshalle, die immer noch den warmen Glanz jener MoTown-Zeit versprüht.

"We keep it 100 real, official how we deal/We could bang pistols all night if it feel/Reclining in the black GT, I hate to see me shining/Black started with rockstar, we DB-9ining," Starr spits on the track, before offering to "put a price on your head like a New York fitted." "I'ma Fuckin Rockstar" is the first single from Black Rock, an album Fredro says was inspired by a cut Onyx did back in the 1990s. "The inspiration for the album came from the song 'Judgement Night' we did for the Judgment Night movie soundtrack, hip-hop meets rock and roll.

Nickelback's legendary sold-out performance of the Get Rollin' Tour on August 1, 2023 at Nashville, TN's Bridgestone Arena was professionally filmed and recorded, and it is now seeing a proper release to commemorate the 2-year anniversary of their chart-topping album 'Get Rollin'' which was released in November 2022. 'Live From Nashville' features all of the band's biggest hits, including 'How You Remind Me', 'Photograph', 'Burn It to the Ground', and many more. The album also features guest appearances from some of rock and country's biggest stars, including HARDY (performing his hit 'SOLD OUT'), Bailey Zimmerman (performing Nickelback's superhit 'Rockstar'), Chris Daughtry (performing the band's 'Savin' Me'), and more. This is a can't-miss release from one of rock's biggest bands of all time.

Big Loud Records heavy hitter HARDY, crowned “Nashville’s nü-metal king” by the Los Angeles Times, is set to release his first ever full album rock project, Quit!!, on July 12. The long-awaited LP features singles “ROCKSTAR,” currently climbing at rock radio, “PSYCHO” and title track “QUIT!!” HARDY soared to new heights in 2023 with the release of his critically acclaimed half-country, half-rock sophomore album the mockingbird & THE CROW, adding to 4.6 billion career streams. The 17-track effort debuted top five all-genre on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and topped seven additional Billboard charts in its first week, including Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Album Sales. The pride of Philadelphia, Mississippi has earned his reputation as “a promising purveyor of keeping the spirit of classic heavy Southern rock alive” (American Songwriter), “capable of writing the big hits for radio, obstinate enough to do something completely unexpected, and savvy enough to find the throughline for it all” (Rolling Stone). A five-time ACM award winner and two-time CMA award winner, HARDY has also won three CMA Triple Play awards, was named the 2022 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year and is a three-time AIMP Songwriter of the Year. HARDY has written 15 #1 singles including game-changing two-times Platinum duet “wait in the truck” feat. Lainey Wilson and first-ever rock radio #1 “JACK.” He’s previously toured with Morgan Wallen, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean and more.

Ever since 1987's Rick Rubin-produced Electric, the Cult have never shied away from reveling in the trashiest aspects of rock & roll culture. No doubt, Ian Astbury's sojourn replacing Jim Morrison in the Doors – or, as they were litigated into calling themselves, Riders on the Storm – must have caused the '60s to resonate with him much more than singing a tribute to Edie Sedgwick, as he did on the Cult's Sonic Temple. So in 2007, an age when pure hard rock was nothing to be ashamed of, the Cult roared back with the back-to-basics record Born into This.

Forget Rated R, those widely circulated photos of Robyn Rihanna Henty after her assault at the hands of ex-lover Chris Brown were X-rated stuff. All of which adds a certain poignancy to her fourth album, and first release since unwittingly becoming a poster girl for victims of domestic violence–certainly her sadder songs now seem loaded with a previously unsuspected melancholy. The new empowered Rihanna is a saucy, scary minx, dressed up in dramatic fetish gear by German photographer Ellen von Unwerth, and a long long way from the Bajan beauty queen who charmed us with the sunny "Pon De Replay".