Score: 7.5/10 . Korn is a band from the rather remote Central Californian town of Bakersfield that formed in ’93, is now on their 13th album (released on Friday the 13th, of all days) and amazingly, in 26 years of existence, has had only one lineup change, the 2011 enlisting of still-active drummer Ray Luzier […]
I know what you’re thinking: who in the rat’s toenails is Canned Heat? To Woodstock’s credit, that festival in its original ’69 permutation probably deserves a lot of credit for spreading the gospel on this band, who in my opinion came with a little more substantial, original material than, say, Joe Cocker or Joan Baez, […]
Now, just let me be up front about this matter. I’m a political left liberal with a liberal arts degree from a Big Ten university. Nobody is more on board than me with this ethos of art’s lack of obligation of moral proclivity. But this song… uh… is a little bit creepy. There, I said […]
I realize I’m a little bit late reporting on this situation but just let me briefly run down what’s happened between Dave Grohl and Oasis’ Noel Gallagher in the last month or so. On August 26 Loudwire, which is primarily a metal mag but apparently picks up some alt-rock storylines, ran the header that “Foo […]
Ok I just have to introduce this list (which is purely based on my opinion, no outside source) with a funny dream I had about Max Collins. I was standing with him and some other rough, mean country looking dude out in the country, who was one of Collins’ friends. There was a pickup truck parked […]
Score: 4/10 . About four minutes into the first track of my first listen to this new TOOL album, Adam Jones’ electric guitar started to gather some steam, putting together a thick riff that seemed not so much plastered onto the rest of the band’s groove but funneled up into it like some aquiline tsunami […]
Score: 10/10 . Just to overview what exactly this is, Live and Loud encompasses two CD’s which once resided on the In Utero / Deluxe Edition issued in 2013 and still do, but now enjoy their own pressing to vinyl, apart from In Utero, as well as their own separate streaming interface. As a Nirvana […]
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Score: 7/10 . Right away to Missy’s credit on this new five-track EP, which marks her first collection of new material in 14 years (although the apt will remember that “Where They from” track from ’15), the title seems to speak back to hip-hop greats — all the guy legends as well as allusions to […]
The Meat Puppets are a great American band and should absolutely be viewed as such. I know, I know, there’s a lot to sift through here. There’s their self-titled debut from 1982 which is basically close to being a bona fide bath of hardcore punk except the vocals sound like a chicken being castrated. There’s […]