Guitar pedals are the paint-by-number books of the music world. Can’t come up with an original riff? Buy a pedal to sound like your favorite…
LOS ANGELES — Bad Religion frontman and former atheist Greg Graffin promised God that he would change his band’s name to Good Religion if his…
You are God’s chosen music listener. He wanted you to experience music, sounds, and even life itself at a greater magnitude than the plebeians who…
NEW YORK — Critical darling indie group The Neon Permanent is taking approximately 9 months out of their touring and recording efforts to compose music…
Alexisonfire’s official website exists at the URL theonlybandever.com. Pretty bold claim, if you ask me. But then I started looking into it. Weirdly, I can’t…
“Never judge a book by its cover” is the type of thing a dickhead teacher says to a student to try to get them to…
MILWAUKEE — The ashamed parents and siblings of recent high school graduate Chase Benson booed, hissed, and jeered as he broke with familial punk tradition…
NEWARK, N.J. — Geologists predict the man and woman on the cover of My Chemical Romance’s landmark 2004 album “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” will…
The members of Mastodon look like they smell pretty bad. In the world of sludgy prog metal, this is a good thing. You don’t want…
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Political punk thrashers Propagandhi paused a hometown show in the middle of their set to administer a pop quiz which evaluated the…
NEW YORK — VC startup and indie music factory LCD Soundsystem announced their first-ever round of layoffs affecting all organizational units effective immediately, worried economists…
Black Flag is a legendary band people love to lie about listening to. Every indie artist name-drops them as an influence, and it’s all for…
CHICAGO — Ravenous music fan Terry Manns feels a wistful sense of melancholy for the days when music publication Pitchfork.com would take an absolute shit…
Isn’t it ironic? A singer-songwriter scores a hydrogen bomb explosion of a hit in 1996 despite nOt kNoWiNg tHe dEfInItIoN oF “iRoNiC.” But it’s time…
CHICAGO — Popular guitar pedal demoist Drew Bypass is under fire to presenting the new Kinky Effects PH-1 Phattener Phuzz without cranking all the knobs…