Modest Mouse is one of those bands that capture the randomness of life while pulling out the ridiculousness and sometimes beautiful coincidences that really don’t make sense. Then they put it all together in high doses of imagery, confusion and cartoon-like song...
Every member of every musical group in creation – if they've been around long enough – has intimated that their band is a family, but what happens if you extend the metaphor? If indeed a band is a family, it stands to reason that the songs they produce...
At this stage of the game, the group of people under the age of eighteen making music professionally (it gets called 'kid rock,' 'underage rock' and a variety of other such titles that all seem passively condescending) has been polarized into two...
It's a safe assumption that, if you came of age in the Nineties, you're well aware of who Jason Mewes is. As the loud, foul-mouthed, 'hetero life-mate' to Silent Bob in Kevin Smith's New Jersey series of movies that included Clerks, Mallrats,...
Heaven and Hell are on tour to support their new release, The Devil You Know, and to be able to see this band at The Warfield in San Francisco was exciting in itself because it may be the only time I (or anyone) will ever see them in a non-arena setting. (The show was...
I must say that I really like it when a band tours in support of one of their classic albums. And since I was only 12 years old when Judas Priest released their classic British Steel album way back in 1980, and was still a couple of years away from my first big arena...
Sometimes events finally get around to unfolding as they should rather than only manifesting as a fairly decent, palatable-in-passing facsimile of what people hoped would come about. For The Artist Life, that time is now; after three and a half years of label...
After an extended period of time off that found the band's individual membership developing new ideas apart (Aaron Freeman took the Gene Ween Band out on tour, doing acoustic sets of Ween songs both alone and with drummer Claude Coleman), Ween has announced that it...
More than any other art form, rock music needs its fans. Its power, its very raison d'etre, is dependent on fans. Poets can scribble away in their attics, painters can stand in a field alone and paint. Even movies and television, seemingly social art forms, put a...
After an extended period of rejection (cursed Pizza Hut), side project involvement (The Gene Ween Band, drummer Claude Coleman's solo endeavor, the list goes on), worry and frustration, Ween has finally reconvened for its first proper tour since 2008 – a...