Category: Interviews

Rik Fox, a founding member of W.A.S.P., the creator of the band SIN, and long-time Steeler bassist, is my latest guest. Read Now

Ray West (lead singer) of SupaFly and Spread Eagle on new albums, evolving from a “vicious”, raspy falsetto to a mature chest singer, Aerosmith’s heaviest music, great Rock singers, Monsters of Rock Cruise, and watching Prince jam for hours at a private party. Read Now

Norwegian Glam Metal band Wig Wam was on the brink of ending their career when a TV show came along and showed the world how good they are. Now, Pariah Burke talks with the Wig Wam frontman about their new album and newfound popularity. Read Now

Pariah Burke sat down with BlackRain frontman Swan Hellion to talk about the band’s history, crazy touring stories, and how the new album, Untamed, is finally the sound Swan and BlackRain sought for all along. Read Now

Canadian singer Sabrina Fallah was told women can’t Rock. She proved her critics wrong with songs like “Frontline”, “Kiss is a Killer,” and “Hurt.” Read Now

Priya Panda, the talented, sexy forever untamed singer and frontwoman of melodic Hard Rock and Metal band Diemonds, and recently solo Pop singer, sits down with the Hard, Heavy & Hair Show’s Pariah Burke to talk about her solo music, that time the band literally crashed the Rocklahoma Festival, how Napalm Records failed Diemonds, and her surprising answer about whether Diemonds is gone forever. Read Now

Sam Bam Koltun, arguably the most exciting Rock guitarist under 30, sits down with the Hard, Heavy & Hair Show’s Pariah Burke to talk about his work with Faster Pussycat, Dorothy, Budderside, and how a broken finger doesn’t stop him being a guitar badass. Read Now

Ray West (Spread Eagle, George Lynch’s Electric Freedom) talks with Pariah Burke about joining George Lynch’s band, the music he’ll sing, recording new music for George Lynch and Spread Eagle, the stories behind Spread Eagle’s hits, and the changing atmosphere for our generation to talk about mental health and troubles, among other topics. Read Now

I had a very enjoyable conversation with L.A. Guns frontman Phil Lewis from his home in Las Vegas. After showing me around his house, Phil and I talked about the new L.A. Guns album Checkered Past, Tracii Guns’ offer to Phil of 49% ownership in the L.A. Guns band name, his surprising views on the future of L.A. Guns recording, the up-and-coming painter Mason Storm, and Phil’s work helping to posthumously finish Pete Way’s final album. Read Now

After 25 years away, Emissary has reunited to re-record and release their underground, fan-favorite demo tape as a fully mixed, mature Metal album. Pariah talks to the band about what happened 25 years ago, where they’ve been, why now is the time to be back, where they’re going, and how a Thrash and Power Metal band wound up opening for the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. Read Now

Steven St. James has a soulful singing voice that has taken him from Motown’s Hard Rock band Kagny and the Dirty Rats with a pre-BulletBoys Marq Torien, to the band Sarge where he cowrote some of what would become Rough Cutt’s hits with guitarist Chris Hager, to, finally, just in the last couple of years, reuniting with Hager and fronting Rough Cutt itself with a revitalized lineup. His voice brings back to Hard Rock a soulfulness, a vulnerability, but also a street corner toughness, that’s lacking from many bands these days. Read Now

Cassidy Paris is a teenager with a voice–and mind–more mature than her years. From Melbourne, Australia, Cassidy has reached across the globe with a Rock N’ Roll signing voice evocative of Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, and Lzzy Hale. She’s also a spokesperson for Metalheads Against Bullying and a woman with a heart almost as big as her amazing voice. Read Now

Spread Eagle is the sound of New York Street Metal. Their 1990 debut album is one of the best Glam Metal debuts of all time, right up with Guns N’ Roses, Motley Crue, and Skid Row. Their 2019 comeback record is equally celebrated. Pariah had a great conversation with original and still Spread Eagle frontman Ray West about the band, their music, and so much more. Read Now

Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Dio, Last in Line, Resurrection Kings) is one of the biggest Metal drummers and songwriters in the world. Watch as he talks to Pariah Burke about his surprising opinions on the latest record he recorded with Resurrection Kings, who he thinks is “either deaf or [doesn’t] know how to mix,” his advice to younger musicians, and the upcoming third Last in Line album. Read Now

Rough Cutt debuted a new lineup in 2019. Yesterday, the other original members said, “no, we are Rough Cutt” and released their version of the same song. Founding members Rockin’ Dave Alford and Chris Hager immediately talked to Pariah Burke to set the record–and LP record–straight. Read Now

Pariah Burke hung out with the band Reality Suite, a four-piece New Jersey Hard Rock band making waves far beyond the Garden State. In between a lot of laughing, they chatted about Reality Suite’s latest album, the heart wrenching story behind one of their best songs, where their inspirations come from, duking it out over who got to write “Kiss the Ring,” what’s next for the band, and more. Read Now

Pariah Burke recently spoke with Robin McAuley (McAuley-Schenker Group, Black Swan, Survivor, Raiding the Rock Vault) about Raiding the Rock Vault, the status of the second Black Swan album Reb Beach had recently told Pariah was being written, Robin’s advice to new singers, Robin’s brand new solo album, Standing on the Edge–his first in more than 20 years–and more! Read Now

I recently spoke with Tracii Guns via video chat about Sunbomb and its departure from his usual Punk- and Hard Rock-influenced writing, about the lawsuit he filed against former bandmates Steve Riley and Kelly Nickels to get back sole rights to the L.A. Guns name and whether Tracii is happy with the outcome announced just the day before our conversation, about the TWO new L.A. Guns albums he’s working on, and more. Read Now

Britain’s Chez Kane is an 80s Rock songstress teleported to 2021 and singing on her self-titled Frontiers debut LP the best 80s Rock and Hard Rock in the tradition of Pat Benatar, Vixen, and Lita Ford. Pariah Burke spoke with Chez Kane about that album, working with Crazzy Lixx’s Danny Rexon, being discovered on YouTube, dealing with Net trolls, and more. Read Now

Reb Beach is a phenomenal guitarist, and he’s played with some of the best in the Rock world. All those killer Winger solos and riffs? That’s him. He’s also the lead guitarist and co-writer for Whitesnake. And for Black Swan, the 2020 super group making pure 80s Rock music. Reb has played with everyone from Alice Cooper to the Bee Gees, Chaka Kahn to Danger Danger, Howard Jones to Twisted Sister, and with Roger Daltry on the Lost Boys Soundtrack. I recently talked with Reb by phone from his home in Pittsburgh about writing new music with Whitesnake and Winger, his surprising review of the reactive load box, his solo instrumental record, joining Joe Satriani’s G3 guitar tour, the candid truth about why he can’t remember riffs he just played, and the bombshell news of the two OTHER albums he’s working on for 2022. Read Now

George Lynch, one of the most prolific, successful, and influential Hard Rock and Metal guitarists of all time. In this segment we talk more about the new the end Machine album, exactly why it sounds more like Dokken, having to replace long-time drummer Wild Mick Brown, the metric of Gross National Happiness, how billionaires should be considered immoral in America. Read Now

Pariah Burke spoke with keyboardist and composer Gregg Fox about the spectacle that is the Rennaisance Rock Orchestra, his 7 years spent sailing around the Bahamas, and how the COVID pandemic might just have made Las Vegas the center of Rock music in America. Read Now

From his home in Stockholm, Sweden, Conny Bloom of the Electric Boys and Hanoi Rocks talked with me about his music, the new Electric Boys album out April 30th, touring–past and future–the secret to staying young, whether the global pandemic was his fault, and the scariest moment in his life–that time he played Led Zeppelin in front of Led Zeppelin and thought Jimmy Page was going to knock him out. Read Now

Australia’s lady of Rock, Lisa Perry, the Hellz in the band Hellz Abyss, spoke from her Sydney, Australia home with Hard, Heavy & Hair Show host Pariah Burke on the day of her debut album release, N1FG—Not 1 F*ck Given. Read Now

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