By Todd Houston Contributor Era and band history: The band L.A. Guns burst onto the sleaze metal scene at the perfect time around 1987. Similar bands were being picked up by major record labels trying to scratch a growing itch for…

Todd Houston Contributor RRI: Hey Doug what have you been up to lately? How’s the family? Doug Marocco: Doing great Todd! I really enjoy your Rockford Rocked page by the way. The family is doing great as well. My oldest daughter,…

By Todd Houston Contributor Rockford Rocked Interview: Hey Brad, what have you been up to man? A lot of people are wondering I’m sure of it. Brad Hefton: Well, I’m just a 60-year-old man just working for a living and praying that I…

By Todd Houston Contributor Peter ‘Pete’ Frederick Way is a bass player and notorious rock ‘n’ roll rebel in every sense of the word. Best known for his melodic bass playing with the likes of UFO, Waysted, Fastway and Ozzy Osbourne,…

By Todd Houston Contributor Rockford Rocked Interviews: Good morning, Ben. Looks like you have been keeping busy since the last time I saw you playing guitar with Pablo and the Rhythmix. Last night your band Good Karrma was at Hope…

By Todd Houston Contributor Rockford Rocked Interview: Hey Mike, what have you been up to? Mike Parr: Hey Todd! I’ve been recording original music with my band The Tree Dogs for the last three years. RRI: Tell us about the the new…

By Todd Houston Contributor Ron Nevison is an American record producer and audio engineer. He started his career in the early 1970s as an engineer on albums such as Quadrophenia by The Who and Bad Company’s debut album. He…

By Todd Houston Contributor Rockford Rocked Interview: Hey Clive how have you been? If I’m not mistaking you were just here in the states? Clive Edwards: Hello Todd! Yes, I’ve been well. I spent a week in New York. My good friends…

By Todd Houston Contributor By the mid-’50s, Matt had migrated to Chicago where he became one of the founding fathers of what we now consider the “electric blues” movement. Over the past 45 years, Matt has played with such blues…

By Todd Houston Contributor In a world full of Bebe Rexhas and Lil Waynes, Shawn Williams has chosen to take the road less traveled in his new musical endeavors. Of course back in the late 1990s when Williams was first learning his…

By Todd Houston Contributor After many years of playing around the local and regional scenes in different groups, drummer Mark Adamany and bassist Joel Rostamo have reunited with guitarist Tom Massari as well as new lead vocalist Chris…

By Todd Houston Contributor The band? Letters from Jett. The album? Heartbreaks & Hangovers. Rockford native Trace Foster and company offer up a new album and are calling the genre Southern rock/country. While I suppose that’s…

By Todd Houston Contributor Rockford Rocked Interview: Greg Kihn! How are you doing Man? Greg Kihn: Doing great Todd! RRI: What’s going on with this Rick Springfield ‘Best in Show’ tour? You guys are going to be at Rockton’s…

By Todd HoustonFor Rockford Rocked InterviewsContributor Let’s face it, if you lived through and survived the 1980s you deserve some kind of an award. Period. If you not only survived the 1980s but also made it out with your dignity…

By Todd HoustonContributor “Mic Check” aka King Sneakers. It doesn’t get more hip-hop than that. Influences range from Parliament, The Ramones, Michael Jackson and Bob Marley. His voice? Reminiscent of the days when individuality was a…