The Ballbreaker Column

Stone Whiskey has had a busy year. The band released their debut album Rebels of the sun on CD/Vinyl earlier this year and has been playing shows to support their debut album. The band released their latest video for Feels Like Yesterday. Stone  Whiskey is an American hard rock band, based out of Raleigh, NC. […]

Ari Kamin vocalist for Steven Adler will be back at M3 Festival on Saturday July 3 they will be playing 4:25pm-5:35pm time slot. Many fans have gotten familiar with Ari Kamin who performed at M3 Festival two years ago putting on a great performance singing Guns N Roses classics. Ashes2Ashes is a band created by […]

This weekend M3 Festival returns to Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. The show is expected to be one of the best ones yet with a must see line up on all three days. If you can’t get enough of rock music this weekend. There is M Pre-party by D-Toxin Productions which starts at 6:30pm […]

Finally rock music has come back to the electric bowery in New York City. This was a hometown show for Sony Music recording artist Bob Dee with Petro and the band put on an electrifying show that was worth the 15 month wait. Bob Dee with Petro was originally scheduled to perform on March 10, […]

Singer, songwriter, real world season 1 and real world homecoming: New York cast member Andre Comeau made an appearance on The Metal Summit this past Wednesday. He was on the show to promote his EP and talk about his upcoming new album Clean Break which will be released via EMP Label Group later this month. […]

He is probably one of the most humblest musicians and quietest talents on earth but we caught up with Ronnie “Dawg” Robson, who is a professional session bass player from Toronto Canada, on what he has been up to lately.   For those who have never heard of him, Ronnie has a great bass resume […]

  In my latest interview with former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, he talks about his new album and touring plans. Stephen Richard Hackett is an English musician, songwriter, singer, and producer who gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis from 1971 to 1977. Angel Alamo:   How did the idea for […]

INXS may have given fans their final show in 2012. The music continues to live on. KICK The INXS experience gives old fans a chance to hear the music again for new fans who are now discovering the band is an opportunity to walk into a venue and experience the songs live. The live experience […]

Do you remember the days of buying an album, reading all of the credits, listening to the record from the first song all the way through to the very last note on the record then going back to listen to it because there was a cool guitar riff, solo, or bass line that made you […]

Legendary musician Bill Champlin has had a career that is worth mentioning as legendary. Even after so many years writing and touring. He continues to work on a variety of projects with no signs of slowing down. It should be no surprise that he is not coming out with a 14 song album Livin’ for […]

  Tommy Lee Flood has been busy making the media rounds supporting a remastered version of his solo debut album Flood. Tommy Lee Flood took time out to appear on The Metal Summit where Tommy spoke about the solo project, his former band Banshee.              Tommy Lee Flood took questions from the fans who joined in, […]

On Hammer Down Hard’s Facebook page the bio says high energy adrenaline fueled metal.  Hammer Down Hard was not kidding about it as they are high adrenaline fueled metal. When you play both releases 2018’s Total Annihilation and 2019’s Madness Serves Me Well, you can’t tell if the records were released last year, 2000, or […]

Former Enuff Z’nuff singer and founding member Donnie Vie the king of power pop appeared on The Metal Summit this past Wednesday to talk about what he has been up to and also take questions from the fans. Some of the things that were mentioned during the interview is that he and Chip Z’nuff are […]

Kickin Valentina has released the first single and video “Somebody New” from their upcoming 3rd full-length album, The Revenge of rock will be released on January 22, 2021. Now on to my review. I miss the good old days of rock videos that have cool cars and hot looking women. Whatever happened to those days […]

  Bob Dee went to upstate New York to work on his latest release, six songs, E.P. Stun Gun. Bob Dee released the first single massive guitar-driven Down, which is different from any of the material he has done in the past. Stun Gun was supposed to be followed by a world tour and another […]

  Theresa Carmoney is an independent music artist. Go to her youtube page, and you will find her signing a wide range of songs. The first song I ever heard Theresa sing was a cover of Whitesnake Is this love. I had a chance to interview Theresa Carmoney to talk about her songs and career. […]

Twenty-five years ago, BON JOVI, their 6th studio album These Days with Tim Collins as a producer, was released, The album featured the debut of bassist Hugh McDonald. Alec Jon Such fired the year before. I was 16 years old when this album came out. As a teenager in those days, music was the best […]

Hard Features (An Open Letter) | Dear Tour Promoter we want a Blood Sweat, & Beers XXX tour 2021|  by Angel Alamo Before the popular package co-headlining tours, there was a tour that, after 29 years, still stands out. I am talking about none other than the Blood, Sweat, and Beers tour. The line-up had […]

In the last 30 years, AC/DC has put out five studio albums. As a live act, they are the band to see when they come to town. AC/DC is one of the few bands who have kept the cycle of album/tour, while other groups will go out on the road even if they don’t have […]

  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 […]