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News: Get Ready to ROCK! announce Best of 2020 Popular Poll winners

Rock music website Get Ready to ROCK! has announced the results of the Popular Poll for Best of 2020. Readers and listeners could vote in two categories this year: Top Albums and Breakthrough Act. Snake Oil & Harmony (aka Dan … Continue reading
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Tagged 20/20, AC/DC, album, best of, Blue Oyster Cult, breakthrough act, Collateral, Deep Purple, Hollowstar, Jessica Lynn, Legacy Pilots, music, poll, rock, Snake Oil & Harmony, vote
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News: The Best of 2020 – Get Ready to ROCK! reviewers choose their Top Albums of the Year

2020 has been a horrendous year for live music, silenced by the coronavirus pandemic. With live music off the agenda, there has been no shortage of album/EP releases, so this year our reviewers have concentrated on selecting their Top Albums, … Continue reading
Posted in ALL POSTS, NEWS, The Best of 2020
Tagged 20/20, album, best of, blues rock, breakthrough act, melodic rock, Progressive Rock, reissue, reviewer.top albums, singer songwriter
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News: The Best of 2018 – Get Ready to ROCK! reviewer top albums and live acts of the year

On 16 December, David Randall presented a two hour special on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio reflecting the reviewer and popular choices for “Best of 2018″ The Get Ready to ROCK! end of year ‘Best of’ fully reflects the reviewers’ … Continue reading
Posted in ALL POSTS, NEWS, The Best of 2018
Tagged albums, best of 2018, blues rock, breakthrough act, melodic rock, Progressive Rock, reissue, rock, singer songwriter, tive acts
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News: THEA GILMORE tops popular poll for best album of 2017, Marillion voted Top Live Act

Singer songwriter Thea Gilmore has won the popular vote in Get Ready to ROCK!’s end of year poll. Thea’s album ‘The Counterweight’ was voted ‘Best of 2017′ by readers and listeners. Alan Jones from Get Ready to ROCK! has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Gold, Best of 2017, breakthrough act, Marillion, poll, popular, rock, singer songwriter, The Counterweight, Thea Gilmore, top album, top live act, vote
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News: Popular Poll results announced Sunday 18 December – top rock album, live and breakthough act 2016

The results of Get Ready to ROCK!’s popular poll for ‘Best of 2016′ will be announced on Sunday 18 December at 22:00 GMT in a special show on the website’s dedicated radio station. At the end of November the website … Continue reading
News: Get Ready to ROCK! launches popular poll for top rock album and live act of 2016

Popular review website Get Ready to ROCK! has launched a popular poll so that readers and listeners can vote for their favourite album, live act and breakthrough act of 2016. Since 2003 the website (www.getreadytorock.com) has published the reviewers’ selections … Continue reading