There is a fair amount of audacity in releasing a double disc collection of live music—one that stretches across six sides of 180 gram black vinyl. But audacity, the willingness to say “fuck it, let's do it,” has been a large part of the draw of...
(This is Part 2 of 2 of our Rock The Bells festival coverage. You can view Part 1 here.) It was time for hosting duties to switch up. Supernatural was done for the day, and Cypress Hill's B-Real made his entrance singing the chorus to his group's “Hand on...
Every once in a while an opportunity to witness something incredibly unique and perhaps even give you a glimpse into the past to a time where you were most likely too young to go to shows, or, more likely, not even alive. Tonight in San Francisco, your chance to...
Murs almost didn't make the plane. My Rock The Bells adventure started long before I made it to Chicago. It started in the security line at the Long Beach Airport, when the courtesy announcements read a list of names—mine and few others, including one Nick...
(This is Part 3 of 3 of our Download Festival coverage. You can view part 1 here and part 2 here.) Resident photographer extraordinaire Muhammad Asranur made his way to the San Francisco edition of the Download Festival, which featured bands such as The Jesus and Mary...
(This is Part 2 of 3 of our Download Festival coverage. You can view part 1 here and part 3 here.) Resident photographer extraordinaire Muhammad Asranur made his way to the San Francisco edition of the Download Festival, which featured bands such as The Jesus and Mary...
(This is Part 1 of 3 of our Download Festival coverage. You can view part 2 here and part 3 here.) Resident photographer extraordinaire Muhammad Asranur made his way to the San Francisco edition of the Download Festival, which featured bands such as The Jesus and Mary...
(This is part 2 of our coverage of the 2008 Rockstar Mayhem Festival. Part 2 can be viewed here.) I'm not quite ready to say that the Rockstar Mayhem Festival has taken the place of Ozzfest as the premier summer metal festival, but I will say that Sharon and...
Sometimes a band that you thought you had pegged will turn around and surprise you by totally reinventing its sound between records (also known as when you weren’t looking) and so, when a new album eventually appears, you’re totally caught off-guard by what...
To quote Magnum P.I., “I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right…” how does a re-issue of a gimmick get made without getting called a farce? From day one, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes was based on the flimsiest of ideas –...