The United Kingdom’s favorite brat, Pete Doherty, and his new set of misfits, The Babyshambles, recently released their sophomore effort Shotter’s Nation. This may not seem like exciting news given their rather disappointing debut, Down in Albion; but...
Man, if you were looking to bang your head and stomp your feet like a possessed Shaman channeling the spirit world in order to alter your reality for a couple of hours, then ending up at the Mastodon and Queens of the Stone Age concert was your portal to such mania....
Every once in a while—if you're lucky—there will be that moment where you realize that the band has gone completely off the setlist. For the most part, this doesn't really happen. As much as you want to believe that you really are part of the...
Out from the ashes of doom comes BBE’s “Lost and Found” series Rockabilly and Jump Blues from Keb Darge and Cut Chemist. That’s right, read it one more time. Keb Darge, the up front and center funk-meister and turntablist/producer extraordinaire...
Anaheim rock-trio The Willowz released their third album, Chautauqua, earlier this year and the group is now gearing up for a tour this winter alongside dance-rockers Electric 6. The tour is mostly comprised of dates across the southern United States but does...
Asked to typify the city of San Francisco as an animal, I'd call her a chameleon. Asked again to typify the crowd that showed up on a moody Sunday night to listen to Oakland masters of stoner metal (High On Fire) and Japanese masters of apocalyptic post-rock...
Anyone else find the light-speed distribution of mass media a bit frightening? Does anybody else find the incredible availability of conspicuous critiques and music-related bibble-babbles relentlessly shoved down of all our throats via radio, via television, via the...
If releasing five versions initially wasn't enough, and despite mixed reviews, Billy Corgan's soap-opera circus, Smashing Pumpkins, will be re-releasing their sixth LP, Zeitgeist, on October 30, 2007. This new version will feature one unreleased song, “Ma...
Post-hardcore Brooklyn four-piece The Forms are announced a national tour this Fall in support of their self-titled sophomore record, which just came October 23 on the band's own label, Threespheres/The Rebel Group. The tour kicks off today, October 30th with a...
Right from the very outset of their November 24, 1981 performance in Montreal (later hailed as the last concert, along with the encore performance the next night, to showcase Queen ‘raw’), Queen stepped onstage with something to prove, which shows in their...