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Autograph – Send Her To Me & Cloud 10 (FnA Records 2025) 🎸 Band: Autograph 💿 Album: Send Her To Me & Cloud 10 (Double Feature) 🏷 Label: FnA Records 📅 Release Year: 2025 🕰 Content: Demos, Outtakes, and Unreleased Material from the early to mid 80s 🔥 Background & History Autograph, baby! It all started back in the early 80s with five seasoned players from the L.A. scene just jamming and writing songs together on the weekends — no pressure, just pure rock & roll fire. These guys weren’t strangers either. Steve Plunkett (vocals/guitar) was doing his thing with Silver Condor (Columbia Records), Keni Richards (drums) was banging the skins in The Coup (A&M Records), Steve Lynch (lead guitar) and Steve Isham (keyboards) were playing with Holly Penfield (Dreamland Records), and Randy Rand (bass) was tearing it up with Lita Ford. So yeah… seasoned and stacked! Fast forward to 1983, and the gang — still not calling themselves Autograph yet — laid down some kille...

Animalyze – Powerhouse (Steelheart Records, 2025 Review) 🎸 Band: Animalyze 💿 Album: Powerhouse 🏷 Label: Steelheart Records 📅 Release Year: 2025 🕰 Content: Animalyze’s first full-length album—straight outta Denmark and ready to tear down the walls with a wild mix of sleazy hard rock, melodic metal, and modern-day Sunset Strip attitude! 💥 A New Wave from Denmark Some "weird" people still like to say Rock & Roll is dead. But both me and Animalyze are here to prove them DEAD wrong. 😎 Hailing from Denmark, Animalyze is a Glam/Melodic Hard Rock band made up of frontman Vikki Mahrt , guitar-slinger Clay Ronson , bassist Mike Lauren , and drummer Chris Clark . The story began back in 2017 when Clay and Chris bonded over their shared love for the raw, high-energy spirit of the '80s glam scene—and that vision only came to full power in 2022 when Vikki and Mike completed the lineup. In 2024, things went from great to legendary when none other than Ken Anthon...

Big Guns – On Dangerous Ground + Stick Em’ Up (FnA Records Reissue Review) 🎸 Band : Big Guns 💿 Album : On Dangerous Ground + Stick Em’ Up 🏷 Label : FnA Records 📅 Release Year : 2018 (Originally released in 1994 + 2007, reissued together by FnA in 2018) 🕰 Content : Band’s first full-length album ( On Dangerous Ground from 1994) and their 2007 follow-up EP ( Stick Em’ Up )—now bundled together in one sweet release! A Little History on Big Guns If you've ever wondered what the U.K.’s answer to Danger Danger might sound like—look no further than Big Guns . These guys were a full-blown Melodic Hard Rock/AOR powerhouse , blending catchy hooks, slick riffs, and soaring vocals into a sound that hits all the right notes for fans of bands like Baton Rouge, Dokken, Lion, Praying Mantis, and Little Angels. And if you’ve been in the collector scene long enough, you’ll know just how in demand their stuff has become—original copies fetch serious money, and for good reason. Whil...

  Alleycat Scratch – Deadboys in Trash City (FnA Records Reissue Review) 🎸 Band: Alleycat Scratch 💿 Album: Deadboys in Trash City 🏷 Label: FnA Records 📅 Release Year: 2006 (originally released in 1993, reissued by FnA Records) 🕰 Content: The band’s first and only full-length album from 1993, brought back to life and reissued by FnA Records. A Little History on Alleycat Scratch Alleycat Scratch didn’t just play sleaze—they were sleaze. These guys lived, breathed, drank, snorted, and screamed Sunset Strip debauchery from every pore. Formed in 1989 up in San Francisco, they quickly made the move to L.A., where they belonged—right in the thick of the sleaze and glam scene that was still roaring with attitude, even as the grunge wave started creeping in. They gained a solid following through word of mouth, bootleg tapes, and absolutely wild live shows. The scene knew who Alleycat Scratch were—even if they never got the big break they deserved. And that, my friends,...

Nikki Foxx – *If You Ain’t Been Foxxed…You Ain’t Been F ked!* (2025 Release Review)** 🎸 Band: Nikki Foxx 💿 Album: If You Ain’t Been Foxxed…You Ain’t Been F**ked! 🏷 Label: FnA Records 📅 Release Year: 2025 🕰 Content: A collection of the band’s two original demo releases, including the 1989 cassette If You Want It…Touch It (tracks 1–3), and their 1991 self-titled release (tracks 4–11). Also features a sleazed-up cover of “The Beat Goes On” by Sonny Bono. A Little History on Nikki Foxx Let’s be honest— you don’t discover Nikki Foxx… you survive Nikki Foxx. Bursting onto the Chicago scene in 1989 like a sleaze-soaked Molotov cocktail, Nikki Foxx were the self-proclaimed bad boys of the Midwest—and they meant it . Loud, wild, raw, and completely unapologetic, they were the kind of band that showed up with a bottle of Jack in one hand and a middle finger in the other. But behind the chaos was a band with serious chops and an attitude that couldn’t be ignored. Led by the one a...