For someone who likes music as much as I do, it takes a lot to get me out of the house to see a band. All of that standing around for hours has to come with the promise of a fierce guitar solo, especially if we’re talking about going to a show on a weeknight....
Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, Grief Of War was formed, in their own words, "For the purpose of being the true heir of real thrash metal." With A Mounting Crisis…And Their Fury Got Released, they may have honestly done just that. Originally released in...
Hope you saved up those Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa/Boxing Day checks from Grandma, kiddies, because the horn has sounded and the race is on for all your hard-earned cash this summer. Leading off right now is Coachella, which just announced its three (THREE!!) day...
Working at a record shop is pretty sweet. I worked at one for years, and the only time it sucked would be on say, a cold rainy Tuesday afternoon, when there would be nuh-thing to do. So you’d find yourself going through CD bins to make sure everything was filed...
The girl at the raised, round bar table kept stashing the tens and twenties in an odd little wooden mail rack—the kind that grandparents always seem to put bills in—as opposed to the standard metal cash box. And there were a lot of tens and twenties flowing...
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...