Everyone has an opinion of anger. Mahatma Gandhi called anger “the enemy of understanding” while Albert Einstein opined that “anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” Go back a little further in time, and Roman statesman Marcus Porcius Cato...
While it's true that some bands arrive before audiences fully developed and ready to win them over, others show up bands aren't bad but need a bit of extra time to grow into their sound. Vancouver's Real McKenzies fall into the latter category – for...
Something in me really wants to like Total Chaos' new album but, at the same time, I also want to hate it bitterly (often for the exact same reasons) as I listen to it. On one hand, the thirteen-year old punk in me wants to love the hell out of the music but, on...
In the six years since Cancer Bats first started making records, a few phrases have been used to qualify the band's music so often that they've nearly become cliche. Each time the Bats have released an album, for example, sentiments and praise like...
Oh boy Junky, Aw, dis week's jus' a little charmed fo'ya innit, ya vein-spikin' reprobates? It doesn't happen often thatcha get a tune thit plays ta yer proclivities but, dis week, we got somethin' special: a new Garbage tune thit I swiped from...
OurStage.com , the premiere digital music destination for unsigned artists, is offering musicians the opportunity of a lifetime to play on the OurStage.com Stage during the 2012 Warped Tour . The festival is known for breaking undiscovered, fresh performers and...
If there’s any song that feels poised for “Pumped Up Kicks”-style ubiquity, that song would be Fun.’s “We Are Young.” The first single from the band’s new Some Nights album has already topped the Billboard charts, as a...
Neil Young and Crazy Horse will release a very special album titled Americana on June 5, 2012. Americana is the first album from Neil Young & Crazy Horse in nearly nine years. Crazy Horse is: Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, Poncho Sampedro, and Neil Young. As...
As their eighth annual Green 17 Tour wound to a close, Flogging Molly took the stage at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA and made the room glow not green, but with with some of the most penetrating blue and red house lights you've ever seen. Ground Control Editor At...
Watching the curve of Tim Fite's artistic growth and development over the last seven years has been pretty interesting. Using his physical releases to mark moments in time (Ain't Ain't Ain't is the singer's third album for ANTI–, but he has...