So does the swindle continue? You know you’re asking. Thirty years after the release of the Sex Pistols’ one and only full-length album, the band – with all four of its original members – boarded the stage at Brixton Academy in front of a...
For a genre that has always professed a higher-than-average intelligence quotient among its fan base, for whatever reason, documents (books, magazines and so on) and documentary films extolling the virtues and historical merit of punk rock always seem to pander to the...
It may not seem like it (since he's guested on everyone's album and cranked out a few side projects) but Antony and the Johnsons haven't put out a record since 2005's I Am a Bird Now. Luckily, for those of us who like slightly creepy, hauntingly...
Some bands have a gift for painting exquisite images and drawing listeners in to feel the music in their guts. They draw together incisive lyrical content that pays special attention to detail with complimentary textural sounds that flesh out and bolster the subjects...
The words “genre defying” are a bit overused, and constitute a phrase that really doesn’t make sense. I’d go more in depth with that opinion, but that would just add up to a bunch of sentences of me trying to explain some idiotic statement. And,...
Throwback-rockers The Black Keys just brought sunshine to a rainy day by announcing the release of The Black Keys Live at the Crystal Ballroom. The disc not only will showcase one of the dopest live acts today, but as a bonus, the disc will include 17 live songs,...
To paraphrase a Chinese proverb, change is growth, growth is life and those that refuse to accept change run the very real risk of being trampled by the new things coming down the line behind them. Ironically, few genres in the pop canon view change with more distaste...
It feels funny saying it, but Dillinger Four’s C I V I L W A R, in some ways, is like the second coming of Christ. Here we have an outstanding band with a hardcore following that’s managed to release albums that are highly relevant, yet deceptively simple,...
I have always felt like I've kind of missed the boat when it comes to Iced Earth. They were always one of those bands that I thought I would get around to listening sooner or later, but unfortunately never did. So when I saw that they were back in San Francisco,...
Some bands are easy to qualify. On the very first listen to their very first record, any listener can have the band in question figured out – where they’ve been, where they’re going, how they’re going to get there and, in some cases, each stop...