Daily Peaks · 02.02.2025

If you ever planned to travel to Seattle to hear your favorite 90s music or even meet a band there, you can save yourself the trouble by listening to the Tacoma based band "Fifteen Stiches" or buying their records. A best of 90's cross-section, starting with raunchy punk, grunge, glam rock, groove metal à la "Pantera", packed into compact songs with an average length of 2-3 minutes. Many thanks to the band for packing all these styles into different songs and not writing 15-minute prog rock...

Daily Peaks · 05.03.2024

I guess, if you want to rock in the Netherlands, you will find huge foot steps made by Peter Pan Speedrock and it could be difficult to find your own way to rock. And it´s good to hear that Hell Valley High carry on the torch of melodic Scandinavian Rock and punky influenced Kick Ass rock with twin guitars and a catchy chorus, doing this on their own way, quite more melodic than PPSR and with a bit more of dirt than most of the Scandinavian bands. Actually, it reads more complicated than it...

Personal · 25.08.2023

The period between January 1986 and October 1987 would have passed completely different without Armin Hoffmann and his massive influence in my buying of Non-Spotify-Records and seeing weekly Non-Spotify-Bands on stages in Southern Germany, mainly Black Forest. Armin Hoffman and Markus Steiger started somehow together doing their business.

Festivals · 21.10.2022

Since 2011, PintorRock has been the most emblematic Punkrock-Festival in Spain. This year, the last edition will take part at El morell, close to Tarragona in Catalunya. The reasons for the stopping this amazing festival for me are unknown. So check out the last 7% of the tickets.