At exactly 8pm, the Fillmore dims its house lights. Apparently, the pioneers of punk like to start things on time. Target Video begins its tribute film, an appropriate way to kick off the evening. Grainy, vintage, black and white concert footage of The Nuns, Noh Mercy,...
For a musician that has, in times and confines passed, been known to take as many as five years to follow up a record, that Trent Reznor has released four albums of material (three of all-new songs and one remix disc) in only fifteen months doesn`t just say that the...
(This is part 2 of our coverage of the 2008 Rockstar Mayhem Festival. Part 1 can be viewed here.) After a couple of beers and chilling out for a bit, it was time to head back over to the Jägermeister stage again to catch one of the bands that I was really looking...
Prepare for an absolutely horrible pun. Word on The Streets is (see, you were warned) Mike Skinner will be releasing the follow-up to 2006's The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living when Everything is Borrowed hits shelves on September 15th. In support of Everything...
At first blush, Ponytail's Ice Cream Spiritual sounds like an art school exploding. Chaos reigns – thunderous drums, insane guitars, and otherworldly screaming in gibberish from lead “singer” Molly Siegel. Everyone in the band seems to be playing...
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...