Since the dawn of punk, musicians with an entrepreneurial bent from Bad Religion to Minor Threat to Black Flag to Dead Kennedys, Butthole Surfers, Beat Happening and more have stepped forward to extol the virtues of the genre as well as the conduct and ethics that they upheld and which ultimately got them to the choice positions in pop culture [view more]

This is part 2 of the Ani DiFranco discography review. Part 1 can be viewed HERE.

By the end of 1999, Ani DiFranco would either release herself or play a key creative roll in fourteen full-length albums of music in just nine years. A staggering feat to say the [view more]

It was unusually cold for Long Beach. Normally, this is the kind of town where anything approaching raindrops is cause for doomsayers everywhere to break out the tinfoil headwear and prepare for the apocalypse, and the air had a certain unknowable charge to it that evening as I strode down the block to the Prospector.

The Prospector [view more]

Okay, first things first. The CD:

I’m biased. I’ve seen Justice perform their Cross live show twice, I loved their album, and I have thousands of dollars of stock in crunchy basslines. So it should come as no surprise when I tell you that sometimes I kiss this CD when no one’s looking. For the [view more]

If it can be assumed that popular music (and specifically rock 'n’ roll) has functioned to date as a sociological model, it stands to reason that the evolutionary progression of it would mirror that of the art form’s human component; those that make the music will, whether intentionally or not, follow a similar progression of [view more]

After three versions of We Are Pilots, Shiny Toy Guns have finally released their latest in electronic/dance, Season Of Poison.

First things first, a new singer. Sisely Treasure has stepped into the shoes of Shiny Toy Guns' familiar frontface, Carah Faye Charnow. Though replacing a vocalist can transform a band [view more]

Don't ask me why I had ever seen AC/DC live before this show, because honestly, I couldn't tell 'ya. Maybe it's because they seemed pretty reliable over the last twenty five years or so, and it seemed like you could always count on them releasing a new album every few years, and then doing a massive world tour to support it. I [view more]

When thinking of San Diego usually the first thing that would pop into my mind was the zoo, or maybe the bacon cheeseburger from Hodad's. Industrial powered Doom Metal, on the other hand, was probably the last, but that has all changed now. Allow us to introduce you to Author and Punisher, Tristan Shone. He is the engineering wizard behind [view more]