While it might not have come across through the numbers at which the band's last album sold, the inconvenient truth of the matter is that Green Day has been in a pretty tough spot creatively ever since American Idiot took off like wildfire eight years ago. After...
Howzitgoin' ya junky reprobates youse? I was walkin' up Avenue B the otha day an' thought thit mebbe – jus' mebbe – ya might be lookin' fer a new hit awready! 'At's right, I thought aboucha, but don' go gettin' all...
"So is it better than their last one? Or is it worse?” asked a friend and fellow fan when I told him I was reviewing the new NOFX record. It might sound crass, but the question is valid in the eyes of some fans; over the last little while, NOFX has...
So is it better than their last one? Or is it worse?” asked a friend and fellow fan when I told him I was reviewing the new NOFX record. It might sound crass, but the question is valid in the eyes of some fans; over the last little while, NOFX has experimented...
Even if you're not the single greatest fan of a band, it's hard not to get into them a little when you're joined in a room by a bunch of other people who are loving what they're seeing. Such is the epiphany that Ground Control head photographer Raymond...
You know those bands that you forget you’re in love with? The Bronx is most certainly one of those. I don’t know why it is that I never think of them anymore when I scroll my iPod, because “False Alarm” is arguably the perfect rock song. Maybe...
After the 2010 reissue campaign which saw The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion re-examining, re-configuring, re-imagining and re-structuring staple catalog titles including Orange, Acme, Now I Got Worry and Extra Width, fans' hunger for the soul-flaying sound of Jon...
Legendary pop icon Adam Ant and his band, The Good, The Mad and The Lovely Posse, kicked off The Blueblack Hussar tour, the singer's first US tour in seventeen years, with a sold out show at The Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles. The Grammy-nominated artist, once voted...
How does David Byrne do it? Thirty-five years after Talking Heads: '77, one of the most unique albums to come out of the entire punk movement, he is still releasing music which sounds like nothing else out there. Love This Giant, his collaboration with songstress...
Mark Knopfler seems to have two desires on this, his seventh solo album: to write some solid songs to add to his already impressive catalog and to relax and have some fun playing the blues. While these two desires are not really in conflict, they often find separate...