rock and roll

Canadian Legends Helix Celebrate 50 Years With Helix 50 – The Best Of

Helix 50 – The Best Of A Career-Spanning Collection Celebrating Five Decades of Canadian Rock Royalty Presented by Crown X Recordings Crown X Recordings, Canada’s premier reissue label, proudly announces the release of Helix 50 – The Best Of, a career-spanning collection marking five decades of one of Canada’s most legendary hard rock bands. The album features an all-star re-recording of the band’s multi-platinum anthem “Rock You,” alongside international chart-toppers […]

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The Collection Kirk Hammett Custom Edition

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Kirk Hammett to Join Mark Agnesi of Gibson for An Intimate Live Discussion Spanning His Music Career and New Book

Kirk Hammett: The Collection – Live Book Tour Join Kirk Hammett, legendary guitarist of the multi-platinum-selling and 9-time GRAMMY® Award-winning band Metallica, for an intimate, live discussion celebrating his iconic career and launching his new coffee table book, The Collection: Kirk Hammett. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPEWB6jWjhU Tickets for the “Kirk Hammett The Collection: Live” events go on sale Friday, April 11, at 10:00 AM (local time) and are limited. Don’t miss this exclusive […]

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Reviews

Kickin Valentina’s Raw Trax Serves Up Killer Cuts & Live Heat

KICKIN VALENTINA – Raw Trax, B-Sides, and Bootlegs Brian Basher Program Director, WTYU.rocks Starting the morning off right with Kickin Valentina's new release, Raw Trax, B-Sides, and Bootlegs. The record features three studio tracks, three live recordings, and a couple of demos. I’m assuming the studio tracks are leftovers from the band's last album, Star Spangled Fist Fight, and if that’s the case, I’m struggling to understand how they didn’t […]

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Reviews

Ricky Warwick – Blood Ties (2025) – A Must-Listen for Rock Fans

KK Law WTYU.rocks Middays, 10am - 2pm, Coming Soon If you know me, you know I don’t just recommend albums lightly. But let me tell you right now—Ricky Warwick’s Blood Ties is one you need to check out. The guy is a machine. From The Almighty to Thin Lizzy to Black Star Riders, he’s been grinding out killer rock music for decades, and now, with this solo release, he’s proving […]

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Advice

Can Local Radio Still Break a Band?

Kevin McElroy Editor, Tune Up Magazine Exploring the Role of Terrestrial & Streaming Radio in Launching Independent Rock Acts Remember When Radio Made Rock Stars? Once upon a time, local radio could launch a band into the stratosphere. A DJ threw your track into rotation, people heard it, bought your record, showed up at your gigs, and boom—you had a career. Those were the days. Fast forward to today, and, […]

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Foghat Drummer Roger Earl Waxes on His Current and Former Bandmates, a Killer New Album, and Why He Plans to ‘Rock Till He Drops’

Foghat’s drummer reflects on the band's legacy, their latest album, and the joy of making music after nearly 60 years in rock and roll. Andy Vineberg Features Writer, Tune Up Magazine Foghat’s Legacy and Lineup Plenty of classic rock bands from the 1970s or even earlier continue to tour the globe, dutifully delivering the oldies, but only a smattering are still releasing vibrant new music that holds up alongside their […]

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‘A Complete Unknown’ Offers the Usual Biopic Clichés … And That’s Alright, Ma

Andy Vineberg Features Writer, Tune Up Magazine I’m a sucker for music biopics. Always have been. Despite the usual flaws (hackneyed timelines, over-the-top substance abuse-fueled scenes, exaggerated or outright fictionalized events, and all the other clichés so memorably parodied in 2007’s “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”), I get a kick from seeing the lives and music of my favorite artists (and even many of my non-favorites) portrayed on the […]

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My Top 10 Hard Rock Demands for 2025

Kevin McElroy Editor, Tune Up Magazine A New Year, A New Rock Resolution It’s a new year, and I’m going to keep hopeful. Before the holidays, I was listening to Eddie Trunk’s Trunk Nation show on Sirius XM, and he proposed what I thought was a great idea: Instead of calls complaining about what’s not happening in Rock, why not channel some positive energy? Listeners could share their hopes and […]

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Music Marketing

SWOT Your Band Into Shape

How a Simple Strategy Can Help Your Band Find Its Identity, Strengthen Its Weaknesses, and Rock the Competition Kevin McElroy Editor, Tune Up Magazine I’ve been at this game for a long time—working in the same industry for decades. It’s easy to get jaded, thinking I’ve seen it all. And it’s true—there are a lot of repeating patterns in this business. Problems that need to be addressed over and over […]

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