NASHVILLE — Notorious guitar collector Joe Bonamassa is being praised for saving a mint 1965 Gibson ES-335 from a lifetime of quality songwriting in a…
With this country basically divided into only two camps, I feel like I’m on crazy pills for having a more nuanced outlook on the issues.…
CHICAGO — Local metalhead Dirk Felton proposed to his girlfriend Jade Oliver at the beginning of “I Cum Blood” during a recent Cannibal Corpse show,…
Portland’s Poison Idea is a scary band. Terrifying, actually. Not in a silly corpse paint, Hail Satan! way, but more like “Jesus, these guys are…
It’s the Halloween season and we at The Hard Times are getting our novelty horror screamo band Suscreamia back together! Well, almost. As many of…
BANGOR, Maine. — Local community organizers recently announced the formation of a support group for music lovers who cannot stop listening to the same hour-long…
In the late 90’s, there was this feeling that after grunge and alt-rock killed the 80’s with extreme prejudice, our parents were left to wonder…
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Lowe’s executives announced plans to introduce a 14-foot tall Glenn Danzig ahead of the upcoming Halloween season, confirmed multiple sources following a…
Another week, another slew of new music that you can’t be bothered to listen to. What happened to you? You used to be cool. Well,…
Everybody loves a good underdog story, so I thought I’d share mine here. My whole childhood I had teachers tell me how awful of a…
SEATTLE— 42-year-old insurance adjuster Marc Barron was recently whisked away to Pibbapalooza, a magical world in which the 1990s never ended after putting on a…
There’s a new frontier in the throes of marital and postmarital powerplay and it lies in the deeply personal and earnest letter written by a…
LITTLETON, N.H. — A recent release of a limited edition “GG Allin Chia Pet” elicited a mixed reaction due to the rather unconventional set of…
RCA Records has achieved a new form of notoriety this year with the recent salacious biographical crime drama/softcore porn flick “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik…
Look, I’ll say it plain and simple: it doesn’t matter why I already went through your supposed “lifetime supply” of Hormel Chili that I won,…