When's the last time a pop-punk band came along and, with just a few bars of one song, made you know you were a fan, dear reader? If it has been a while, the next purchase you should make is Downtown Struts' third album, Victoria! – you won't be...
As easy as it would be for a film company to lob out an “Adv-itorial” documentary capturing the excitement, history, high points and successes that The Vans Warped Tour has enjoyed over the festival's seventeen-year existence, fans would rightly balk at...
Fourteen years ago, Eve 6 had the world on a platter for a New York minute. That moment in 1998 was incredible; “Inside Out” propelled Eve 6 to the top of the Billboard chart where they spent thirteen weeks swinging between numbers one and two, and it...
Hang ten Junky! I see a great big wave o' totally kick-ass SWAG comin' yer way, ya reprobates, an' there's some right righteous stuff loaded in it. No bullshit, yer gonna wanna check di week's Report out, cuz I sure did right by ya. Dis week, I...
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I was at a high school party, and a friend of a friend demonstrated that he could play the guitar solo from "Freebird" note for note. Technically impressive, especially for a beginning guitarist but, even at sixteen, I knew the great guitarist was the one who...
It sounds like it might be an outsized myth or wonderful exaggeration, but sometimes a perfect, timeless sound can only be made in one particular moment under a very specific set of circumstances. There really can be magic in a moment and it really could only...
The Real McKenzies had to have known they'd have the cards stacked against them when they agreed to hit the stage with The Brains and Reverend Horton Heat. The band had to have known that, slotted as the mid-card band between two rockabilly acts – one of whom...
While the question of whether or not Camden Town's favorite sons, Madness, will record and release a new album in 2012 Madness kept a current in the pot when they announced a new series of North American dates. Ground Control's Raymond Ahner was there with...