The Ballbreaker Column

  Due to the CORONAVIRUS M3 Festival has been pushed to Labor Day weekend, September 4-6, 2020. The Festival originally scheduled to take place on May 1-3, 2020. Ratt has initially been scheduled to headline but is not able to make the Festival in September. Tyketto also planned to perform and have canceled all 2020 […]

To most of us, Woodstock was an event that is a part of music history taken place during the summer of 1969. August 15- August 18, 1969. One photographer was there taking pictures of the event. I had a chance to talk to Elliot Landy for ballbuster music, who shared some stories and spoke about […]

  If you bought any records from KISS, Bon Jovi, or Aerosmith and read the songwriting credits, the name Desmond Child always popped up. Desmond Child has been the man behind the scenes writing hit songs such as Aerosmith “Angel,” KISS “I was made for lovin’ you, Bon Jovi “Living on a prayer.” He has […]

Robert Tepper has had a great career. He is having his song No Easy Way out on the Rocky 4 movie to the soundtrack to coming out with a new album Better than rest. The album is an 11 song collection of an album that we can say is his best album yet, and it […]

It has been an exciting year so far for Autograph and Jimi Bell. The band has been playing shows and keeping rock and roll alive. Now the group is starting a new chapter with the addition of Jimi Bell replacing founding member Steve Lynch. I had the opportunity to interview Jimi Bell, a guitarist who […]

Rick Dal Cortivo – Guitar, Vocals, Tim Gray – Bass, Scott Borchert – Drums Angel Alamo: How did the band come up with its name? Ricky DalCortivo: After bouncing a bunch of ideas around, Sleeping Village settles in the name Electric Omen. After playing our first show, we just felt like it didn’t fit the band. […]

Singaya is a 4-piece Punk Rock outfit. Started in the summer of 2016 after toying around with the sound and musicians Singaya starting to come into their own by 2017 with the releases of “You’ve Got the Bite” and “Yeah Whatever Lady” this band is a well-oiled machine ready take over venues and clubs across […]

Steven Adler played at M3 festival. Fans didn’t know quite what to expect. All the fans knew was we would hear some Guns N Roses classics. Fans didn’t know quite what to expect from Ariel Kamin didn’t disappoint fans by the end of the set everyone was wondering who this guy is. It was one […]

Angel Alamo: How did the band come together? GF: I came up with the band idea after hearing Fabrizio Grossi’s production on the first Starbreaker record. I felt that Fabrizio was good at mixing sounds of progressive, metal and 80’s all in one package on that debut album. So at the time, I had moved […]

Days before the M3 Festival. I had a chance to talk to Autograph guitarist Steve Lynch. The band played twice at M3 Festival they played their day 2 of the M3 Festival. The best part was hearing Autograph play a short set at the after party at the Sheraton at 2 a.m. That was rock […]

They have performed eight times. Last year they did an acoustic set and this year played a rocking set that made us wish they could keep playing. They are in the middle of the yearlong Dirty 30 tour celebrating the release of their debut album Dirty, Rotten, Filthy, Stinking, Rich. A few hours before they […]

XYZ gave M3 fans twice the fun while performing on day 3 of the M3 Festival. The band presented a small set for fans at the after party event at the Sheraton and then performed at M3 Festival on Sunday afternoon giving fans a 30-minute set that left them hoping they could keep playing for […]

Vixen played a new eight-song set at M3 festival Sunday may, 5, 2019 it was a mixture of covers and some of their songs from there earlier albums. The rain did not stop Vixen from rocking or the audience from enjoying their set after the band put on a great show and did a meet […]

Tora Tora kicked off the 2nd day of the M3 festival with a rocking 30-minute set that the band did not disappoint at all and were happy to be playing at M3 Festival. Fans who attended got to see the band live and also meet the group. After the performance, the band took time out […]

Mike Tramp released his 11th studio album Stray from the flock earlier this year. He also kicked off the world tour that will keep him busy and on the road. I had the opportunity to catch up with Mike Tramp on one of his tour stops at Hopewell Theater in Hopewell, NJ to talk about […]

M3 Festival Returns May 3rd, 4th, & 5th 11th annual M3 festival returns Friday, May 3, Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5, 2019, to the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. This year’s line up will include a lot of favorites featuring Whitesnake, Autograph, Bang Tango, Extreme, Firehouse, Kingdom Come, KIX, LA Guns, Quiet […]

Tilted has been rocking and rolling the New Jersey rock scene for ten years now opening up for such major acts as Skid Row, Dokken among others. The band has also played at the famous Stone Pony many times and continues to rock across the east coast. I had a chance to interview before the […]

(A Live Report, Darryl Hall, and John Oates!) Darryl Hall and John Oates brought their eight-piece band to Atlantic City Hard Rock Casino for an electrifying sold-out show that didn’t disappoint. Darryl Hall and John Oates played to a sold-out show that consisted of people of all ages. Hall and Oates played a 14 song […]

Buckets N Joints is an alternative rock band that started in 2012… These past years the band has made quite a journey by playing shows all around Israel (over 100 shows in the last year),  The band also performed in Germany and Russia, and managed and promoted by ‘Firefox Musikverlag’ Germany. The group soon embark […]

For 30 years, Tyketto’s life is like a Rocky story. A band that has been knocked down and refuses to give up. They are the band that’s still rocking with no signs of slowing down. Tyketto (Danny Vaughn-Vocals, Chris Green-Guitar, Greg Smith-bass, Michael Clayton-drums, Ged Rylands-keyboards) have had a busy year touring. This year will […]

Blaze Bayley (born Bayley Alexander Cooke; 29 May 1963) is an English singer, musician, songwriter, and lyricist. He was the lead singer of Wolfsbane from 1984 to 1994, and currently from 2010 following reunions in 2007 and 2009. Bayley was also the lead singer for Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999. Since then, he has […]

Foreigner is an English-American rock band, originally formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musician Mick Jones ex-Spooky Tooth and fellow Briton and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm. Jones came up with the band’s name as he, McDonald and Dennis Elliott were British, while Gramm, Al […]

Being a rock journalist is a fun job to me. Going to see Tom Keifer of Cinderella was a real treat. As most fans do when going to a concert we tend to play their music. On my way to the concert, I must have played the song Gypsy Road 10 times. It is a […]

Gene Simmons gets a lot of flak for some of the things that he has said, One thing he said that makes sense is the fact that there’s no music business. Consumers feel they are entitled to download music for free. For a musician to make music they have to pay for instruments, studio time […]

With the passing of Tom Petty, it feels like the Music Died. The first time I ever heard of Tom Petty song was in 1989 when Free Falling came on MTV I thought at first that he was a solo singer putting out his first solo album little did I know who Tom Petty really […]

I was 8 years old when Appetite for Destruction came out. That time period 1987-1993 there was no other band like guns n roses. In 1987 there wasn’t a record like “Appetite For Destruction”. No one believed they would rule the rock world. It is hard to believe that 30 years have passed since the […]

Kentucky Headhunters are the most underrated southern rock band. They have won a grammy released a double platinum album. After 31 years they are still rocking with no end in sight. The band have released a new record On the safari. The first single Deep south blues again is out now. They plan to be out on […]

There are not many musicians that can say that they can do it all. I’m very sure of that when you talk to Paul Nelson you’ll know you will never meet another one like him. Paul Nelson has toured with countless worldwide acts and performed live and or on recordings alongside a list of today’s […]

Billy Sheehan is a legendary musician who continues to record and perform with no plans of slowing down anytime soon. He is best known for his work with David Lee Roth band having played on David Lee Roth’s first two albums Eat Em’ and smile and Skyscraper , Mr. Big, and The Winery Dogs. Billy […]