When one thinks of 'Deep Blue,' what comes to mind? Open water – sure. Deep water – that would make sense if one was following a train of thought. Cold – certainly. Darkness (like twilight) – why not? All of those answers are perfectly...
Throughout their ten-year tenure together, the Liars have chased their own muse unapologetically and, in so doing blazed their own trail to the outermost fringes of pop with little regard for whether they're going it alone. Happily, a whole team of outsider...
It should be said that the idea of a biographical feature film on a band is not new. The idea of a documentary film about a band is nothing new either – and The Doors have been the subject for hordes of both. In fact, it could be argued that The Doors have...
"The music is very honest,” says Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi. “What you see is what you get with that music.” This is how Classic Albums' look at Paranoid opens. That sentiment holds precisely none of the bombast or cultivated darkness...
The kick about underground and independent filmmaking has always been the complete freedom of it. Working only with one's own money in hand means that creative freedom is absolute and that, in turn, means filmmakers are able to go as far out as their imagination...
As a lead-off discussion about Brendan Troller's documentary, I Need That Record!, a bit of conjecture is required – it only to balance or temper the opinions expressed in the film. Ten years into the new millennium, and there's no arguing that...
The Hold Steady were once voted onto a list of the Top 10 Most Underrated Bands Of All Time by a high-end music magazine that shall remain unnamed. Can you believe that? No, Tom Waits and The Replacements – criminally underrated artists – also made that...
For those that have heard it, making a claim that Sonic Youth's Silver Session for Jason Knuth EP is a 'classic' anything will sound bizarre at best and totally asinine at worst. Really, it's barely an album in the conventional sense of the term and, in...
Alright lemme ask ya somethin', What know-nothin', no-account, talkin'-outta-his-ass goof decided that the number thirteen was unlucky? Seriously – what's unlucky about it? I've never had any trouble with thirteen, as far as I'm concerned,...
Hitting the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time in just over two years, the legendary Iron Maiden brought their Final Frontier World Tour to the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord, and proceeded to put on what was without a doubt one of the best shows I have ever...