It's funny how the mores and values of punk rock have changed over time. Since the genre first began to build a head of steam in the Seventies, the walls separating what punk “is” and “isn't” have been torn down and rebuilt with each...
In this new age that has found established acts returning to their own beginnings and issuing remastered/remixed/re-envisioned/restructured/reconstituted/refurbished/re-packaged renditions of their time-honored and revered catalogue, one has to wonder what the auteurs...
Awright so ya went an' done it, Didja miss out on the "las' chance ta download SWAG Reports one through ten" housecleaning that was done? Sucker. There ain'no second chances they're gone now baby, solid gone an' dead as disco. You can...
Some explanations just defy immediate understanding and, in those moments when you hear them, you can't help but ask for them to be repeated – even if you did indeed hear them clearly. It's almost as though your mind trips over its' own feet from word...
It's been a long time coming but, with distribution finally settled and all other outstanding nonsense ironed out, Josh Homme and Rekords Rekords have announced that Queens Of The Stone Age will be reissuing its' seminal, self-titled debut on January 11, 2011...
The beautiful thing about irony in music is that, when it's done just right, the thematic ambiguity it can imply is infectious for some and will leave others turned right off – and the difference all boils down to an individual listener's sensibilities....
There are few propositions quite so dicey as those which attempt to crossbreed another musical style with metal. Why? The grim truth is that metal does not play well with others; while the initial results might be really cool, every band that has attempted to cross a...
Alright, so a couple of die-hard super-fans have already begun to publicly complain that, while the recent John Lennon remaster initiative claims to be an 'extensive' or 'complete' endeavor, there are a few things missing. "What could possibly be...
After thirty years of time between, some perspective is required in order to understand the circumstances around Double Fantasy's original release. When the album appeared in late 1980, it was Lennon's first full-length record of new material in six years. Six...