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Stephan Folkes’ Debut Album ‘Hazard’ Is Ethereal, Empowering, and Future-Facing

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11 months ago

July 3, 2025

Stephan Folkes enters the musical space with Hazard, an expansive, genre-fluid debut that feels like a personal diary stretched across the stars. It’s cinematic, sonic poetry — at times spacey and introspective, at others grounded in pain and grit. The Leytonstone artist makes clear: this isn’t just an album, it’s an experience.

From the first shimmering notes of What Should You Do (For Your Whole Life)?, Folkes invites us into a world that oscillates between dreamy exploration and radical self-accountability. The production is lush, echoing influences like Prince and Billie Eilish, but never derivative — Folkes crafts something wholly his own, futuristic yet familiar.

What’s particularly captivating is how each song serves as a lesson in resilience. Is This Paradise? hits like a journal entry after loss, while Say It Like You Mean It is the confident rebirth that follows — rhythmic, swaggering, unashamed. Folkes shows range not just in sound, but in emotional terrain, mapping love, grief, doubt, and transformation with care.

His lived experience informs every note. Whether it’s surviving near-death as a child or navigating a world not built for neurodivergent minds, his voice carries both a weight and a clarity. Hazard, especially in its closer moments, offers more than music — it offers perspective.

A debut this refined and audacious doesn’t just introduce an artist; it signals the start of a movement. Stephan Folkes is forging new paths for expression — and Hazard is his first masterpiece.

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Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays Presents “Loud & Proud” On Tuesday, June 9th, 2026 7 PM PT on Twitch

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11 hours ago

June 7, 2026

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Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Loud & Proud” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, June 9^th, 2026 at 7 PM PT for this amazing show.

Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed on shows with some of the greatest musicians on the planet including Ozzy Osbourne, John Lodge, Steve Vai, Leland Sklar, Kenny Aronoff, Tommy James, Verdeen White, Ten Years After, BuckCherry, Rick Wakeman and more.

Rocky’s first studio album, “Firestorm” is now available worldwide through Allied Artists Music Group, together with an epic music video of his #1 Global DRT Chart topper single, “Rock Star”, that also picked up a Best Rock Performance nod at the 2019 Hollywood Music In Media Awards (“HMMA”).

Rocky Kramer recently returned to the studio to record his sophomore album “Alone In The Rain” which will be released soon!!!

Rocky Kramer was recently cast in The Mutt Productions/ Allied Artists rock n’ roll time travel comedy adventure “Rockin’ In Time” where he will play the film’s lead character, Lars Olsen. The film is being directed by Aaron Lee Lopez (of the “Teenage Girl” franchise) and is being produced by multi-platinum and six-time Grammy Award winning musician turned motion picture producer, Kurt Wipfli.

Rocky Kramer is now the new lead guitarist in Prescott Niles’ new revival of the legendary band The Knack. Known worldwide for their smash hit “My Sharona,” The Knack helped define the sound of late-1970s power pop and rock. Decades later, the band’s influence continues to resonate with fans and musicians across generations. With Rocky Kramer now joining the lineup, the band is poised to introduce that legacy to a new era of audiences while honoring the spirit that made them legendary.

Watch Rocky Kramer’s “Rock Star” Music Video here: