| TW | LW | Artist | Title |
| 10 | New | Slash ft. Brian Johnson | Killing Floor |
| 9 | 9 | Shed Seven | Let’s Go Dancing |
| 8 | New | Bon Jovi | Legendary |
| 7 | New | Nitrate ft. Issa | One Kiss (To Save My Heart) |
| 6 | 2 | Cassidy Paris | Danger |
| 5 | 7 | Overland | Disconnected |
| 4 | 5 | Rachel Platten | Mercy |
| 3 | 3 | Blackberry Smoke | Hammer and The Nail |
| 2 | 6 | Lionheart | Little Ships |
| 1 | 1 | Di-Rect | My Blood |
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“The Black Crowes” have just released their 10th studio album, Happiness Bastards, their first album of all new material since 2009’s Before the Frost… Until the Freeze. The rock band from Atlanta Georgia burst onto the scene in 1990 with their bestselling debut album Shake Your Money Maker, which included hits like “Hard To Handle,” “Twice As Hard” and “She Talks To Angels.” The album made the top 10 in the USA, Canada and New Zealand.
Happiness Bastards is a new album full of vintage Bluesy Rock tracks. The Black Crowes’ “Wanting and Waiting,” the album’s first single, is new this week on RadiJohan.
American rock band “Bon Jovi” will be releasing a brand new album, called “Forever,” on the 7th of June. It’s the band’s 16th studio album, their first in four years, and the first to be released following frontman Jon Bon Jovi’s vocal cord surgery. According to Jon Bon Jovi:
“This record is a return to joy. From the writing, through the recording process, this is turn up the volume, feel good.”
The band has also released the album’s first single “Legendary.” Speaking about the song in an interview Jon Bon Jovi revealed that the song is a tribute to his wife.
Bon Jovi’s “Legendary” is new this week on RadiJohan.
| TW | LW | Artist | Title |
| 10 | 3 | Dion ft. Danielle Nicole | I Aim to Please |
| 9 | New | Shed Seven | Let’s Go Dancing |
| 8 | 4 | Foghat | I Don’t Appreciate You |
| 7 | 10 | Overland | Disconnected |
| 6 | 9 | Lionheart | Little Ships |
| 5 | 6 | Rachel Platten | Mercy |
| 4 | 5 | Nits | The Tree |
| 3 | 8 | Blackberry Smoke | Hammer and The Nail |
| 2 | 2 | Cassidy Paris | Danger |
| 1 | 1 | Di-Rect | My Blood |
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“North Sea Echoes”is a new band featuring “Fates Warning” members Ray Alder and Jim Matheos. The bad new for “Fates Warning fans is that the band appears to be in a state of permanent hiatus. The good news is that Ray and Jim’s “North Sea Echoes” released their debut album Really Good Terrible Things last month. Unlike the progressive style of Fates Warning, this album can perhaps be described as ambient rock and the new single, “Unmoved”, is a great introduction to Really Good Terrible Things.
Speaking on the lyrical concepts behind “Unmoved“, Ray Alder shared:
“Some people dealing with depression often exhibit a remarkable ability to conceal their inner struggles by presenting a facade of happiness to the world.”
“Unmoved” by North Sea Echoes is new this week on RadiJohan.
On 14th of March 1995 “The Goo Goo Dolls” released their breakthrough fifth studio album, A Boy Named Goo, featuring their first major hit, “Name.” The American rock band were formed in 1986 starting off as a covers band,then developed a punk sound, before experiencing mainstream success following the release “Name”. The band has had seven top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including three top ten hits. They’ve also received four Grammy Award nominations.
Guns n’ Roses guitarist “Slash” will be releasing his new solo album in May. Orgy of the Damned will revitalize some blues classics and will feature diverse guest vocalists including Billy Gibbons, Chris Stapleton, Dorothy, Iggy Pop, Paul Rodgers, Demi Lovato, Brian Johnson, Tash Neal, Chris Robinson, Beth Hart and Gary Clark Jr.
The first single is a superb cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s 1964 Chicago blues standard “Killing Floor” which features Brian Johnson of AC/DC on vocals, and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith on harmonica. According to Slash:
“‘Killing Floor’ is one of my favorite Howlin’ Wolf songs, but also one of the iconic blues riffs that turned me on as a young guitar player. I’ve always wanted to cover it in some capacity and this record was the perfect vehicle. But playing it with this band, and with Brian Johnson singing, it was an achievement I would never have imagined back then. Let alone Steven Tyler providing the harp.“
“Killing Floor” by Slash ft. Brian Johnson is new this week on RadiJohan.
Formed in Nottingham in 2015 by bass-player Nick Hogg, melodic hard rockers “Nitrate” released their fourth studio album, Feel The Heat, last October. Influenced in no small way by the eighties rock scene, Nitrate’s sound may make you feel like you’ve been transported back in time to the heydays of Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Loverboy and Europe.
Feel The Heat, an album packed with rockers and seasoned with a few ballads has featured four official singles to date, including “All The Right Moves and “Needs a Little Love.” Easily one of the best albums of the past year it includes quite a few other great tracks that could easily have been single releases as well.
“One Kiss (To Save My Heart)” is one such track. It’s a beautiful duet which features highly regarded Norwegian star “Issa Oversveen” on vocals alongside Nitrate’s Alexander Strandell. Back in the eighties this song would have been a massive hit. It’s new this week on RadiJohan.
| TW | LW | Artist | Title |
| 10 | New | Overland | Disconnected |
| 9 | New | Lionheart | Little Ships |
| 8 | New | Blackberry Smoke | Hammer and The Nail |
| 7 | 2 | The Struts | I Won’t Run |
| 6 | 10 | Rachel Platten | Mercy |
| 5 | 6 | Nits | The Tree |
| 4 | 5 | Foghat | I Don’t Appreciate You |
| 3 | 1 | Dion ft. Danielle Nicole | I Aim to Please |
| 2 | 3 | Cassidy Paris | Danger |
| 1 | 4 | Di-Rect | My Blood |
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“Shane Smith and The Saints” formed in 2011 when Shane Smith moved to Austin, Texas and met fiddle player Bennett Brown. They began playing shows in Austin and soon connected with the rest of the band. In 2013 they released their debut album, Coast, followed by Geronimo (2015) and Hail Mary (2019).
Shane Smith and The Saints have built a reputation with an unrelenting work ethic and a very busy touring schedule playing in a variety of places, from dives and honky-tonks to major venues, peaking at 240 shows in a single year. The band’s music has been featured regularly on the American prime time television soap opera Yellowstone.
They’ve just released their first new album in nearly five years. The 13-song collection, called Norther, features a mix of genres including rock, country, folk and Americana. This wide-ranging approach traces back to the tastes and backgrounds of the five band members.
In one of the album’s singles, the narrator reminisces on a past romance and desperately laments the situation in which he finds himself in the present. “Adeline” by Shane Smith and The Saints is new this week on RadiJohan.