If You Like What You Hear, Then Go Tell Somebody: My Unlikely Interview with Dug Pinnick of King's X About 15 years ago, I went to go see King’s X perform at The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale and met their lead singer and
No Words: The Versatile Role of the Instrumental on the Classic Metal Album Sometimes, all you need is the music. Literally, just the music. No vocals. I’ve always been a huge fan of a fully instrumental track.
Nine Songs from the Nineties ...and the Muses That Inspired Them On a surface level, most songs you hear are fairly straight forward in their meanings. You’ve got your classic themes: love, anger, betrayal, depression,
A Light in the Black: Seven Songs That Explain the History and Legacy of Rainbow If you grew up in the late 1980s and early 1990s like I did, you think you know all you need to know about classic
A Series of Unfortunate Concert Events…and Some (Written) Rules to Enhance Your Experience I’ve been to a lot of different shows in a lot of different places lately. And what I’ve been seeing has been making
I’m Judge and I’m Jury and I’m Executioner, Too: Who Deserves the Most Blame for Metallica’s St. Anger? I regret to inform you all that I had a very unfortunate experience about a week ago. I listened to Metallica’s 2003 release, St.
Can't You (Road) Trip Like I Do? Summer is finally here! The weather’s warm and the living is easy. Time to relax, enjoy some time off, and maybe take a vacation
In the Gardens and the Graves: The Wasted Talent of Doug Hopkins The ‘90s alternative scene had no shortage of tragic figures. The era produced rock stars who were exceedingly flawed. Music media seemed to glorify the
Merch Madness: How I Infiltrated the Concert Poster Community (or... How I Became a Huge Concert Poster Nerd) It’s 90 degrees on a Sunday morning in St. Louis. I’m standing on line outside the Enterprise Center, home of the NHL’s
To Daisy, With Love: MTV’s Top 20 Video Countdown and the Turning Point for ‘90s Alternative MTV’s Top 20 Video Countdown and the Turning Point for ‘90s Alternative
The Biggest Metal Band in the World...and 50 Bands That Are Better than Them We need to talk about Ghost. Who are Ghost, you might ask? They are currently the biggest metal band in the world, according to the
