With so many triumphs and disappointments – so many excellent successes and spectacular disappointments – dotting his career that have always depended upon how many pieces his heart was broken into at the time – it seemed perfectly reasonable to...
At even the mention of the possibility of a Meatmen DVD release, there will surely be a series of gasps and shivers. Since appearing in 1978 with a sound that instantly allied itself with the then radical and publicly terrifying punk rock masses, The Meatmen and...
Very few genres in the known pop diaspora are so dependent on sloganeering as a device to define itself than punk rock. ‘Say it with bricks,’ 'Anarchy Is The Key,' ‘Do It Yourself is the melody,’ and ‘Keep warm this winter –...
In these uncertain times for the music industry, an ever-growing number of musicians are choosing to remove themselves from the machine and have opted to do it for themselves. Each of those defectors remembers the days before a larger figure got involved and offered to...
This is Part 2 of our coverage of the Metal Masters Tour featuring Judas Priest, Heaven and Hell, Motörhead and Testament. Check out Part 1 here. After totally kick-ass sets by both Testament and Motörhead, I decided I had just enough time to grab a quick...
The very first time I saw Nine Inch Nails was in 1990 after I had worn out their first vinyl single, Halo 1, Down In It. The show was at the Masquerade in Atlanta and it would later be infamously known as Sweatfest, for very good reason. Little did I know that what I...
After so long an absence, in cases like that of New Kids On The Block it pays to get the glib witticisms out of the way as early as possible. In that spirit, “The appearance of a new NKOTB album now – as the music industry experiences the greatest recession...
This is coverage of Day 3 of the 2008 Outside Lands Festival. Click for coverage of Day 1 and Day 2. Sunday afternoon had rolled around and the park was packed with people drinking wine, smoking pot (I can only assume they all had glaucoma), and talking about Burning...
This is coverage of Day 2 of the 2008 Outside Lands Festival. Click for coverage of Day 1 and Day 3. According to Google Maps, the distance between the eastern end of Speedway Meadow (where the box office was located)and the western end of the Polo Fields in Golden...
This is Part 1 of 2 of our coverage of the Metal Masters Tour featuring Judas Priest, Heaven and Hell, Motörhead and Testament. Check out Part 2 here. I really tried to write a clever opening paragraph to this review, honestly I did. But damn dude, this is Judas...