So you’re unemployed for the holidays. Bummer. You might be starting to wonder how you’re going to afford Christmas gifts this year. I mean, you…
Municipal Waste are the premier crossover thrash band from Richmond, Virginia, and for most of their existence has been composed of the core quartet of…
Christmas is almost here, which means it’s time to get together and connect with the people nearest and dearest to you. No, not your family,…
Seattle, Washington’s Alice in Chains is such an influential/groundbreaking rock that your favorite act and ours, Godsmack, named themselves after one of their songs, and…
Los Angeles-based punk/alternative label SideOneDummy was founded in 1995, the year that Rancid, Alanis Morissette, The Presidents of the United States of America, Foo Fighters,…
Congratulations, you’re back at a family gathering and tolerating it as long as you can. Time for your mom to grab that karaoke mic, bust…
The holidays are a time of family, reflection, and raw-doggin’ in the back of the sleigh. And what better mood music to get your nipple…
The holidays are right around the corner, and you’re looking for the perfect gift for friends. Or maybe you’re even dropping heavy hints in front…
If “Pony,” Far’s cover of Ginuwine’s third-wave ska-punk masterpiece, is the only song that you know of from the Sacramento, California four-piece, you need to…
The Mountain Goats’ sound could be likened to the reality of being a weekend dad set in a minor key. As we’ve discussed before, the…
Late 90s/early aughts hard rock bands that couldn’t get a good word written about ‘em via the elitist press at the time like Creed, Nickelback,…
For many of us, the task of cultivating the tastes, opinions, and dispositions that constitute an earnest human personality is just too daunting. Luckily the…
Calabasas, California’s Incubus formed the year that “Nevermind” and “Rover Dangerfield” both conquered the globe with complicated quantum physics, lovely sunrises, vicious violent crows, and…
Like politicians, serial killers tend to have an unjustifiable amount of self-esteem. They see what they’re doing as art or God’s work or whatever screwed-up…
Sometimes a telling benchmark for a band’s mainstream success is whether or not moms rock out to said act in their SUVs that drain gas…