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...
After the release and overwhelmingly positive reception of their First Four EPs set in late 2009, OFF! was left in a very peculiar position: they had successfully achieved their first goal quickly and incisively, so they needed to figure out what to do next. This,...
It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam "MCA" Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and...
Of all the things that The Real McKenzies will own up to being, the one that they will cop to first and most happily is that they are a Canadian band; it is who the been since forming in Vancouver, BC in 1992, it was who they were when American audiences became aware...
Awright, fall in ya worthless junkies an' thieves,How ya keepin' out'ere, ya SWAG-gers (a new nickname fer you junkies? I'm tryin' it out)? How's life where you are? Gettin' a little shaky mebbe?Well, guess what? I gotcher cure...
Marilyn Manson, the man who still makes my mother shudder in disgust well over a decade after she was first subjected to the nightmare-ish visuals of the video for “The Beautiful People,” is back in the saddle and has just released his eighth full length...
Anyone who paid attention to a new Pennywise album over the last seven years knew that something was happening within the band and, while they might not have known what the problem was, they knew it didn't sound good. The Fuse betrayed the first hints of trouble;...
As I flipped through the endless number of TV channels on cable yesterday, I started to wonder if musicians had just thrown in the towel and called it quits. More and more, I was finding singers tied into corporate commercials and TV shows where they try to sell their...
It's hard to know what to make of Skip The Foreplay's Epitaph debut, Nightlife. On one hand, it's hard not to laugh because, with a mix of screamo and dubstep as well as a great big dollop of pop frontloaded onto a hyper-aggressive, metallic base, the...