by Brian McKinny
EMPHATIC is a band from – of all the places – Omaha, Nebraska. When one thinks of new rock music and its origins, one doesn’t naturally think of Omaha as a burgeoning hotbed of new rock bands …
Friday, September 13, 2013
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine, CA
The lineup for this year’s Uproar Festival featured Alice In Chains, Jane’s Addiction, Coheed and Cambria, and Circa Survive on the main stage. The Zippo Encore Stage Powered by Ernie Ball …
September 4, 2013
by Ray Rocha, editor
Yes, you read that right: Black Sabbath in Concert! Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, and newcomer, Tommy Clufetos ran through a blistering set of new and classic Black Sabbath tunes.
The show …
by Brian McKinny
Since they released their last album, War of Angels in 2012, POP EVIL has undergone a couple of serious personnel changes, with the departure of lead guitarist, Tony Greve and drummer, Dylan Allison. The addition of lead …
by Brian McKinny
Josh Homme is one of those personalities that attract the weird and wonderful, the irregular, and the outcasts. It’s that kind of spellbinding attraction that QOTSA has bestowed upon their listeners. When someone hears their music, they …
by Greg Mullins
Under a beautiful, starry night in the hills above Saratoga, California, the Mountain Winery was the perfect place to spend an evening swimming in the philosophical musings and eclectic virtuosity of one of the best-known progressive rock …
by Brian McKinny
I am going to come right out and say it. This is not the Megadeth of old. This album doesn’t belt out every riff at gazillion miles an hour, but that’s not to say for one second …
Sponge, is a typical sort of band in that they have had a sort of roller coaster of a career with lots of difficulties over the years. This is what makes them typical. What makes …
Stone Sour’s latest release is a concept double album, ‘House of Gold & Bones, Part 2’. It is a strategy that has its roots with such albums as Rush’s ‘2112’, or Queensryche’s …
