Call it kismet, or fate, or luck, or intelligent design, or whatever, but sometimes things happen for a reason. Julie Slick began taking bass lessons at age twelve as one of the original students at The Paul Green School of Rock. Her younger brother Eric later enrolled...
In San Francisco’s gritty industrial DNA Lounge Sunday night (January 13), in front of flashing well-known corporate logos projected on the screen behind them, Paul Robb, James Cassidy and Kurt Harland Larson took the stage for one of their first full shows...
When done properly, the most uproarious of comedies are those based on dark and unhappy circumstances or bleakly ironic images. History is littered with proof that the human condition needs a downside in order to remember where up is; for example, a frowning clown...
When I first heard Saviours' latest release, Into Abaddon (Kemado), bands like Iron Maiden, Venom, Witchfinder General, Trouble and Candlemass all came to mind. Not because I thought Saviours was trying to sound like any of them, but because they somehow managed to...
I think there's something to be said when fans cry out, "Don't ever cover this band because you'll ever do them justice!” That can be said about bands jacking samples like Puff Daddy and that God awful Godzilla song, Limp Bizkit fumbling through...
As a primer for those unfamiliar with the work of CAN, the remastered Anthology is a thoughtful, thoroughly curated document of the group’s myriad eras and incarnations, with particular attention given to late-early period albums Tago Mago (1971), Ege Bamyasi...
Clinic will release their 5th album, Do It!, on April 8 on Domino Records. The band will then embark on a 20-date tour in support of this release on May 8. Recorded by Clinic in their Liverpool studio and mixed by Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, Archie Bronson...
Following the release of their fifth studio album, The Black And White Album, The Hives (singer Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, drummer Chris Dangerous, bassist Dr. Matt Destruction, guitarists Nicholaus Arson, and Vigilante Carlstroem) are launching a stateside tour to...
If there was ever a hint of what’s to come, the free mix tape, Strictly Leakage, that Minneapolis-based hip-hop duo Atmosphere dropped over the holidays was it. Simply called a “party album” by Slug (MC) and Ant (Producer), they released it to cure...