A regular recap highlighting some of my favourite album releases each month. I don’t do “reviews” – this is simply a few words about the albums that appeal to me and about the artists releasing them. Tracks from these albums will have been featured on the Friday NI Rocks Shows over the past few months. This month we focus on new albums from Nighthawk, Halestorm, Ellefson-Soto and Crowne.

There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those Shows for the month of July 2025 – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 160 different artists on the Shows this month, but quite a few Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath tracks on the Friday NI Rocks Show!

Playlists for June were published previously and those Shows are also still available via the On Demand Player - https://www.rockradioni.co.uk/reviews/new-releases-review/3936-ni-rocks-recommends-album-releases-in-june-2025

There were no new interviews this month, but there was a promo feature with Gavin Rossdale from Bush, talking about the band’s new album, and with Cristina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil, chatting about Bloodstock.

All of our previous interviews can be found here - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/interviews.html and on the NI Rocks MixCloud page as well - https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/  .

There are also monthly Spotify playlists for the Friday NI Rocks Show which feature most of the tracks from each Show that month.

The “NI Rocks Recommends” feature on the Rock Radio NI website covered new releases from Laguna, Ramonda, Joe Bonamassa and Honeymoon Suite.

A regular recap highlighting some of my favourite album releases each month. I don’t do “reviews” – this is simply a few words about the albums that appeal to me and about the artists releasing them. Tracks from these albums will have been featured on the Friday NI Rocks Shows over the past few months. This month we focus on new albums from Laguna, Ramonda, Joe Bonamassa and Honeymoon Suite.