When Primus announced that they'd be hitting the road this summer for their first full headlining tour in years, fans got excited but they couldn't have known what to expect. The band must have known that, if they were going to hit the road, they'd better...
When a band first breaks into the big time, everyone gets excited – including the band. It's a big deal; breaking out of the underground and scoring a bunch of additional exposure is a validation of a band's efforts to that point because, in effect,...
The thing about Queens Of The Stone Age's music which has always managed to capture and hold listeners' attention is that it is nearly impossible to qualify. Of course, there's no arguing that the band's music falls squarely into the...
The August 12th Queens of the Stone Age/Eagles of Death Metal benefit show for Brian O'Connor in Los Angeles has SOLD OUT! Thank you to everyone for buying a ticket and helping our bassist Brian O'Connor fight this bitch we call cancer. We've set up a few...
Hey there youse, Can I let you in on somethin'? I've started to notice a pattern in how these columns operate – there's a common theme in how the business leaks. Let me tell ya about it… So dere's four weeks in a month right? It's weird,...
Laurie Anderson is known for her storytelling – for elaborate, album-length cycles of stories – however she seems more concerned with the music than her storytelling on Homeland, her first album in over eight years. There are only three pieces here which...
While some records can fade, images live forever and, in Ted Nugent's case, those images are what have always preceded their inevitable soundtrack. Think about it – virtually everybody knows Ted Nugent from television as the NRA-endorsed, gun-toting,...
As any fan can tell you, Judas Priest stands as musically peerless – not just for releasing a succession of genuinely remarkable studio albums, but for being one of the most consistent live bands in metal history. Sure – the studio albums are great and...
Some readers will cringe and some will cheer, but there is no mid-point in possible reaction; such is the polar nature of the reactions to Simply Red, and it has been since the band formed out of the ashes of a punk band in 1985 (no joke – singer Mick Hucknall...
I can think of no other band which laid out their musical development from album to album so clearly as Talking Heads. Each Talking Heads album built on what came before, while adding some new element into the mix. Sure, you can watch the Beatles grow from Help to...