Radiohead fans are a peculiar bunch. They’ll slog through the muck and the mire to watch the band perform outdoors in a deluge and they’ll pay full price for the band’s latest album when they could get it free. But if online message boards are to be...
Listening to Black Lungs’ debut full-length album, it’s impossible not to feel as if, in making it, singer/guitarist Wade MacNeil has beaten some very long odds. For the last seven years, MacNeil has played second guitar to early breakout member Dallas...
There’s a popular theory among those generally disinterested in new music, the narrow-minded and the foolish that all of the great ideas in pop have already been thought up; that all modern rock outlines is a prolonged denouement or journey into mediocrity that...
Any of those familiar with Filter’s history will find the title of the band’s new album ironic. Discarded by Trent Reznor and told its services would no longer be required as the touring band for Nine Inch Nails over a decade ago, the band found success...
No matter how you slice it – for good or ill, negative or positive – it’s impossible to measure Donna Summer’s impact upon pop music. Once dubbed “the queen of disco,”the single most repeated line in hip hopand modern R&B,...
While some musicians inspire women to sleep with them, Anthony Gonzalez inspires you to hold him gently and get emo. He might just be the perfect dude. During the Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts tour, I saw M83 play a glorious show at the sold out Knitting...
The list of bands that could never hope to have their story told accurately is a short one, but there’s no doubt that The Doors is at the top of it. The characters are just too larger-than-life; Oliver Stone based his movie on drummer John Densmore’s...
By now, the cat has been let out of the bag regarding the fact that ‘the new Green Day’ band gracing the scene, Foxboro Hot Tubs, is actually a side project embarked upon by all three members of Green Day (it’s inconceivable where the similarities...
An ‘elbow’, other than the obvious physiological definition, is defined by Webster’s dictionary as “a sharp bend in a road or river; or a length of pipe with a sharp bend in it.” It is, in effect, a location where a conduit unexpectedly...
Weezer is back. And it’s the real Weezer this time. Make Believe may have been their biggest commercial success, but in the eyes of many fans and critics alike, it was a colossal failure. While The Red Album could be even more successful than its predecessor,...