Gavin Rossdale was wise to let six years lapse between the implosion of alt-frauds Bush and embarking on a solo career. He learned the hard way just how bad a taste he’d left in the public’s mouth when his short-lived follow-up band, Institute, failed to...
Oh, the woes of being a music journalist. (Disclaimer: I use the term “music journalist” loosely… This site obviously offers an amazing forum for fans and people with an ability to write to provide commentary on their favorite shows, bands and...
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...