This year when Warped Tour came to Shoreline Amphitheater, it traveling festival brought with it one of the more diverse lineups to showcase at the festival. From the Celtic-flavored street punk of Boston-bred Street Dogs to the fantastic, blood-and-eyeliner exposition...
Kick the engines over on the welcome wagon, it's official: Urge Overkill is back! Yes, it's true – after a sixteen-year break, one of the best bands ever to swagger out of Chicago has returned to active duty with a new record (Rock & Roll Submarine),...
Holy shit Commodore, we hit sixty-four SWAG Reports! C'n ya believe it junkie? 'At means I been gettin' away wit' dis shit fer almos' two years. Well, not allat close ta two years, ann'ere's nothin' allat special about the number...
The Vans Warped Tour continues to travel across North America. Back on June 30, Ground Control was invited to check out the fifth stop of the tour in the scorching hot sun of Las Vegas. Throughout the day, it seemed that every artist we interviewed had two things to...
This year’s edition of the Vans Warped Tour features one of the most diverse lineups in the festival’s seventeen-year history. One of the most unique bands included on the tour is the Cincinnati, Ohio-based experimental rock outfit known as Foxy Shazam....
At this point – fourteen years after the original lineup came together in Palm Desert, CA – Queens Of The Stone Age has become an institution. The band itself may laugh at that image and possibility (who would believe that the world at large follows and...
The recent swell of interest in “Americana” music has proven to be a really interesting and exciting development within the context of pop music because it has signaled a shift in values. Once again, the vacuous nature of the North American Top 40 pop tart...
The last few years have been both good and strange for Matt Good. Since the release of Avalanche in 2003, the singer's manner has seemed to cool off and become more reflective; no longer hissing about “turning shit into solid gold” through clenched...
Over the last few years, Motorhead singer/bassist Lemmy Kilmister has seemed to have held a vested interest in playing against his image as a black leather-clad, snarling, hard-rocking beast and showing a lighter, campier and loveable side. Making cameo appearances in...
Arightcha bum-rushin', no account junkies,Yeahyeahyeah, I know I'm late gettin' you yer fix, but I was laid up. Some junkie jumped me inna alley down on Avenue B witta knife an' laid me up fer a coupla days. Mangy bastid won' be doin' 'at...