Sometimes all the talent in the world really does mean diddly and all that really matters is that all the pieces lined up just right for an artist to get a shot at breaking through. Look at Laura Pergolizzi, for example; her professional musical career began eleven...
The Seventies were an interesting time for rock n' roll. By then, the music was already old enough to vote but rock n' roll had become increasingly about the show and the showmanship which went along with the music. By 1975, David Bowie was doing shows so big...
Listening to Heaven – The Walkmen's seventh album (second for Fat Possum) – it's very easy to ascertain that the group's members are satisfied with what they've accomplished musically. That isn't to say that anything about Heaven is...
Some readers will say that this review comes a bit late (the film was released with a limited theatrical run on December 4, 2010), but the truth is that it took me this long to screw up courage to see Hard Core Logo 2. Why? Well, it's simple; Hard Core Logo is one...
It's always exciting when a new annual music festival begins to draw enough notice that suddenly there is some prestige in being on the bill, but the sudden growth and interest that Montreal's Pouzza Fest has experienced now, after just one year on the books,...
The conversation had drifted to talk of Victorian literature as the tables we’d pulled together filled up the rear courtyard of the bar. If this were some intentional move toward more sophisticated drinking banter, I’d be having none of that particularly...
Supporting their most recent release Relentless Retribution (Nuclear Blast), San Francisco Bay Area metal legends Death Angel recently wrapped up a North American trek with the mighty Sepultura, during which the band played to packed venues and showed the kids why they...
What Hot Water Music has done with Exister is unbelievable. Eight years ago, when they released The New What Next, the band hit an all-time high as songs like “My Little Monkey Wrench,” “Ink And Lead” and “There Are Already Roses”...
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...