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...
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...