great white

- The Jimi Hendrix biopic will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Going all the way back to 1982, Great White have been dealing out some of the best blues-based hard rock around. While they've been lumped in with the so-called "hair bands" of the '80s, the group truthfully has more in common with Led Zeppelin, Humble Pie and ZZ Top, than the poppier acts that were part of the Sunset Strip scene...

When Great White released Elation earlier this year, the band wasn't just celebrating a new release, it was also celebrating officially welcoming a new singer to the fold. The group formally selected Terry Ilous (also of XYZ) as its new frontman, replacing Jack Russell due to what the band calls "addiction issues...

Tracing their band roots back to the Los Angeles music scene of the late '70s, Great White are rock 'n' roll lifers. Throughout their career together, the quintet has sold close to 10 million albums and a slew of MTV and radio hits including "Rock Me," "Save Your Love," and their show-stealing version of Ian Hunter's "Once Bitten, Twice Shy...

Former Great White singer Jack Russell -who actually still performs with his own version of the band- was involved in a boat crash recently, which he detailed in his tour diary for our friends at Metal Sludge. Turns out, Russell and his wife were relaxing on their vessel when they were interrupted by a huge boom...

The name Great White will forever be associated with the Station nightclub fire of 2003, a tragedy that claimed 100 lives in Rhode Island, but that hasn't stopped singer Jack Russell from battling the rest of the group for use of the moniker...

Nearly 10 years after a fire at the Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., killed 100 people at a Great White concert and injured scores more, singer Jack Russell continues to face scrutiny about his role in the tragedy. In an interview (video below) with Vegas Rocks...

Here at Noisecreep, we love a good old-fashioned slugfest. Luckily, there never seems to be a shortage of them in the world of hard rock. One of the common battles we come across covering this kind of music are the legal disputes over band names...

Original Great White frontman Jack Russell is causing waves today. The singer, who had been sidelined by illness, has issued an announcement that he is forming his own version of Great White. The current version of Great White continued on without Jack, using Terry Ilous of XYZ as a replacement singer while Russell recovered from a perforated bowel...

Even veteran rock stars get the pre-show jitters sometimes. "I gotta admit, I was nervous!" said Kix singer Steve Whiteman about his band's headlining slot at the M3 festival in Columbia, Maryland on May 13. The fest, held annually at Merriweather Post Pavilion, was expanded to two nights for the first time ever to include a special Kix-Off party...