These days, it’s commonplace for concert attendees to have their smartphones on hand to record every second of a performance. While many musicians have waxed…
When you think about it, life is just a series of decisions. Most of them are completely banal and easily forgotten, and some have the…
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Attendees at Chat Pile’s Halloween show universally agreed that singer Raygun Busch was dressed as Randy from the TV show “Trailer Park…
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MT. POCONO, Penn. — Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst recently crashed a Halloween campout and borrowed a bit of his own poetry to launch into…
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Local Halloween party attendees were seen struggling to make it through all nine and a half minutes of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by…
On the surface, it seems like Radiohead and Kidz Bop are a match made in musical hell. But if you dig a little deeper, you…
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After years of denial, we at The Hard Times finally opened up and were honest with ourselves about our proclivity for nu-metal. As such, we…
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NEW YORK — Local metalhead Noel Donner is feeling nervous about the longevity of his relationship after finding the Peter Steele issue of Playgirl hidden…
HARTFORD, Conn. — Attendees at a recent performance by goth band Choking Ghost were admitted at a discount provided they brought a donation in the…
Feel Old Yet? The Demon Goat Guy on the Cover of Venom’s “Black Metal” Just Had His 4,078th Birthday
Feel Old Yet? The Demon Goat Guy on the Cover of Venom’s “Black Metal” Just Had His 4,078th Birthday
Who’s got two horns, helped to spearhead the first wave (and only true wave, for my money) of black metal and just hit the big…
Do you have a mass of cells in your reproductive organs that you need to stop from replicating but live in a state that withholds…