Christina O'Neill
Former TeamRock news desk member Christina joined our team in late 2015, and although her time working on online rock news was fairly brief, she made a huge impact by contributing close to 1500 stories. Christina also interviewed artists including Deftones frontman Chino Moreno and worked at the UK's biggest rock and metal festival, Download, as a key reporter for the company. In late 2016, Christina left rock journalism to pursue a career in current affairs. That's proved to be a massive success and in 2021, she was named Local Weekly Feature Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards.
Latest articles by Christina O'Neill

Blink-182 voted most animal-friendly band by PETA
By Christina O'Neill published
Blink-182 and AFI's Davey Havok were honoured for their investment in animal rights at the PETA2 Libby Awards

UK's Music Venue Trust expands to Texas
By Christina O'Neill published
Music Venue Association is rallying clubs and bars in Austin in a legal bid to halve liquor tax rates and boost local music industry

Anselmo: Robb Flynn and Scott Ian calling me racist is infuriating
By Christina O'Neill published
Pantera ex Phil Anselmo says Machine Head's Robb Flynn and Anthrax's Scott Ian don't understand 'heavy implications' of branding him racist

Asking Alexandria's Danny Worsnop announces solo shows
By Christina O'Neill published
Asking Alexandria frontman Danny Worsnop schedules 'intimate performances' in Leeds and Kingston to promote debut country album, The Long Road Home

Blackfield tease album V with Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen
By Christina O'Neill published
Listen to 3-track promo for Blackfield's forthcoming album V – the project from Porcupine Tree mastermind Steven Wilson and Israeli songwriter Aviv Geffen

Watch Sock Puppets Immortal Christmas III video
By Christina O'Neill published
Sock Puppet Parody release their 3rd Immortal Christmas song

Steel Panther release Anything Goes lyric video
By Christina O'Neill published
Watch Steel Panther's promo for new single Anything Goes – lifted from upcoming album Lower The Bar

Eyehategod Mike Williams has successful liver transplant
By Christina O'Neill published
Eyehategod's Mike Williams has undergone successful liver transplant surgery – less than a month after crowdfunding campaign for treatment smashed its target

Rival Sons stream Paris live album
By Christina O'Neill published
Rival Sons have made their live album from Download Paris 2016 available to stream

Misfits ex-guitarist Doyle to release album As We Die
By Christina O'Neill published
Former Misfits guitarist Doyle to launch album As We Die and commence European tour in 2017

Volbeat release Dead But Rising live video
By Christina O'Neill published
Watch Volbeat's live performance for Dead But Rising at Germany's Rock Im Park festival earlier this year

Enter Shikari announce Take To The Skies North American tour
By Christina O'Neill published
Enter Shikari celebrate the 10th anniversary of their album Take To The Skies with a run of North American shows in spring 2017

Coheed And Cambria release Colors video
By Christina O'Neill published
Watch Coheed And Cambria's video for Colors – which they call a 'tribute' to all their fans

Anthrax, Killswitch Engage announce 2017 North American tour
By Christina O'Neill published
Anthrax and Killswitch Engage will join forces under the Killthrax banner for a North American tour in 2017 – with support from The Devil Wears Prada

Danko Jones to release new album Wild Cat in 2017
By Christina O'Neill published
Canadian act Danko Jones will release 8th album Wild Cat in March, followed by a spring European tour

DevilDriver announce 2017 North American tour
By Christina O'Neill published
DevilDriver to tour North America with Death Angel, Winds Of Plague and The Agonist in February and March next year

Hexvessel release short concert film
By Christina O'Neill published
Watch Finnish outfit Hexvessel perform at Menuo Juoadaragis Festival in the national forest of Lithuania

The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown announce US tour
By Christina O'Neill published
British psychedelic outfit The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown announce 2017 Zim Zam Zim US tour – their first run of live shows since 1969

Supergroup The Damned Things to launch new EP
By Christina O'Neill published
The Damned Things, featuring members of Fall Out Boy, Every Time I Die, Anthrax and Volbeat, are working on a new record

Opeth share backstage Wembley Arena video
By Christina O'Neill published
Watch Opeth's behind-the-scenes promo for their biggest ever UK headline show at London's SSE Wembley Arena last month

Listening to AC/DC can make men lose at board games
By Christina O'Neill published
Study shows men playing Operation became more distracted and made more mistakes when listening to AC/DC than when they listened to classical music

Five Finger Death Punch trick Labonte into singing about dicks
By Christina O'Neill published
Five Finger Death Punch changed lyrics to The Bleeding on teleprompter being used by guest vocalist Phil Labonte

Jethro Tull release Christmas song Pass The Bottle
By Christina O'Neill published
Listen to Jethro Tull's new song Pass The Bottle (A Christmas Song) from forthcoming String Quartets album
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