Iron City Rocks
www.ironcityrocks.com bringing you the best rock, hard rock, heavy metal and blues music from Pittsburgh
4.4from 26 ratings
- 580
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 26
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2009
- First episode
- 68K
- YouTube views
About Iron City Rocks
Coming to you from the "Iron City" of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Iron City Rocks Podcast brings you the best talk and interviews with the best in rock, heavy metal, blues and hard rock music. Visit us at www.ironcityrocks.com
- Publisher
- www.ironcityrocks.com bringing you the best rock, hard rock, heavy metal and blues music from Pittsburgh
- Category
- music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 21 Jan 2009
- Latest episode
- 28 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 580 episodes have a transcript.
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 580: Stryper's Michael Sweet
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 579: Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Joel Hoekstra
24 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 578: Drivin N Cryin's Kevn Kinney and Parker Barrow's Dylan Turner and Megan Kane
Inside a recent episode
Episode 580: Stryper's Michael Sweet
Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So, you know, it was good. You had some foundation in how to sing, uh, and then, you know, someone to emulate like Rob, uh, with some education behind it. Cause the rest of us fell miserably short. Yeah. I, I'm very blessed in a unique style of singing, love it or hate it. And a lot of people hate it. Not everyone loves my voice, and that's fine. I mean, I've read comments about people say they can't get into Striper because of my voice. I'm like, wow, okay, well, there you go. But that being said, I'm a singer who sings more operatic. Mm-hmm. i'm a belter and more from my chest yeah and i think that's preserved my voice yeah yeah and that's the ignorance of some of us who try to sing it all from their throat and and you know just you can't you can't notice notice a lot of the guys that are more throaty and less power a little more airy without naming names yeah i think you guys can all figure it out uh They've kind of lost a lot of their abilities. […]
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- Michael Sweet
- Joel Hoekstra
- Kevn Kinney
- Dylan Turner
- Megan Kane
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 67,672
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 20 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100
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- Quality
- 84
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 92
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