At this year’s Vans’ Warped Tour in Charlotte, NC, band members Lawrence Taylor and Aaran McKenzie of While She Sleeps showed up for an impromptu interview on the press-room floor. This metalcore band hails from Sheffield, England and we were excited to talk with a couple award-winners (Kerrang! 2012). Hear about how they party, how […]
While the New Rock Revolution of the early 1990s ushered in massive social change and made music that matters relevant again, by the late 1990s the movement had more or less petered out. It was hard to focus on social injustice when the economy was doing so well, and so many were getting rich. Pearl […]
16 ways to make the best of your local music scene Lane Lovegrove Your local music scene is full of some of the brightest, most innovative artists in your region. They are out there waiting to be discovered and can be found at college student unions, the small local dive bar, a decadent and trendy […]
On this edition of my Top 16’s I decided to finally give a little bit of recognition to a collection of albums I believe should have been more noticed. These genius works from different walks of life in the music industry didn’t find a niche in becoming widely known but yours truly is a hound […]
Santa finally came through for me last year by giving me a record player. Due to the lack of extra cash, I’ve been drooling over so many records lately. So of course, I’ve decided to compile a list of purchases I hope to make in the near future, both realistic and unrealistic. Crime in Stereo […]
All of these songs on this list represent the sole reasons I don’t wish these bands’ music to be stricken from the Earth. For some of these songs, I can tell exactly why I like them, while others just have an inexplicable pull. Maybe it’s subliminal messaging. 1. “Far from Home” by Five Finger Death […]
Julian Safrit presents: Top 16 Bands I Can Do Without Before we get to the main attraction of our top 16 list I have specifically put together, I want to touch on what I mean with my choice of a list. First it says plain and simple, “bands I can do without.” Not every band […]
1. Brent Smith (Shinedown) – While I’m not too keen on the over-produced sound on their newest album, I can’t deny that Brent Smith is a fantastic singer. He’s just as great live, too, which is pretty rare these days. I just wish the band would go back to a more raw, rock-oriented sound rather […]
Looking back, this seems like I like a lot of mainstream music but you have to remember when I started to like these artists and go see them they were new, not the mainstream. They had purpose and it wasn’t this whole entire media cluster fuck we live in now. In no particular order: 1.Deftones- […]
I couldn’t think of what to make a top 16 about, or even if I liked 16 of one thing that I honestly could list as favorites. I thought about it for a few minutes and did the whole chin to fist to knee thing and suddenly, it all made sense. As of late, most […]
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