The Empire Shall Fall return with the first of a three-part EP release that challenges what you know about metalcore.
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Tool’s original bassist Paul D’Amour jumps back into the spotlight with his Feersum Ennjin project.
The recordings that started it all. (More or less.)
It just seems like the right day for some crazy Hungarian Avant-garde metal, doesn’t it?
Priory is indie band zeitgeist. They’re a combination of equal parts Portland (where they’re based) and Brooklyn scenes, with a dose of sleepy Swedish dream pop. But I think this…
Twenty-five minutes of technical metal at its finest.
Ben Folds sums up an amazing career in a slightly uneven package.
Ohio-based indie band the Big Sweet are very young, they’re teenagers even, but they rock a very sophisticated sound, which is that finely tuned, happily fussed about power pop sound…
Live albums are hard. They’re rarely good, because they rarely deliver on what they aim to be: an encapsulation of an act’s live show experience. But they just can’t; a…
The wait is over. New music from Maynard James Keenan is finally here.
They’ve recently worked with Mike Patton and Matisyahu but Dub Trio is back with a new record of their own.
Charred Walls of the Damned return with their second album and let the music do the talking.
Two dudes. Total annihilation. Check out the new release from Southern Lord artist, Black Cobra.
The influencer becomes the influenced as Gary Numan’s new album sounds just like a classic electronic disc from more than a decade ago.
A divorce and a hurricane can’t keep Sebastian Bach down as he comes out Kicking & Screaming with a fantastic new album.
Finally, an album about the Enochian Magick System that’s worth a damn.
Relive the glory days of Twisted Sister with the release of their 1983 Marquee club shows.
Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos reunites with original singer John Arch for a headbanging new Not-Really-Fates-Warning-But-Maybe-Even-Cooler album.
Dave Steed reviews the best Taiwanese metal record that you’ve ever heard!
Dave Steed puts on his sh*t kickers and dives into the four new albums Hank3 is about to release.
If it is a positive review, why does Dw. Dunphy sound so down about Marillion’s “Live From Cadogan Hall”?
This album, for all intents and purposes, saved my life.
Here’s the back story: I had just graduated from college in the summer of 1991, I was in Connecticut. Girlfriend was in Ohio. I packed up everything I had and boarded a train to move to Ohio to be with her. But she was under tremendous pressure from her parents to break it off, and by the time I arrived, their smear campaign was clearly working. I rarely saw her, even though we worked in the same mall. I got a job at a record store, and one of the promo CDs that had just arrived was Squeeze’s new album Play. I had always liked the band but never bought any of their records. However, the local modern rock station (97X, holler) was giving it some support, so after hearing a couple songs I liked, I took it home with me and played it in the car of my friend Ed, who’s the only person I know who likes Squeeze more than I do. I vented all of my frustrations to him about the ridiculous predicament I put myself in as we blasted “House of Love,” because damn it, I was living that song. She was full of lies and boredom, a very acidic tongue waggled in her head, we seemed the best of friends, life had just begun…but on the roof a tile began to slip. The house of love caved in, and that was it. Fuck.
Wanna read about Peter Cetera squealing like a pig? Check out Rob Smith’s review of Chicago’s Live in ’75.
Sarah Jarosz avoids the sophomore slump — mostly — on her latest release, Follow Me Down.
Popdose reviews Blondie’s latest, Panic Of Girls.
Rob Smith reviews the new Journey record, “Eclipse,” and finds a lot to like.
A new recovered tape that had been lost for 40 years provides compelling insight into Bob Dylan’s earliest days as a songwriter and performer.
Dave Steed takes a look at everything badass in his latest weekly music series.
With their alluring blend of vintage Cambodian pop and surf rock, Dengue Fever’s latest release, Cannibal Courthship, earns praise from Chris Holmes.
We’ve come to expect great songwriting from Paul Simon. Ken Shane thinks that his new album is his best in a long time, and the finest album of the year so far.