Category: Interviews

Baroness: The Awakening, Overcoming Entropy, Art Is Art, And The Power Of Live Music.

Baroness has always inhabited their own space in the musical universe. An innovative, complex, and dedicated DIY outfit that defies easy categorization, the energetic...

Rock Is NOT Dead. King Buffalo: DIY Work Ethic, Greek Mythology, and Making Epic Rock.

It’s an understatement to say that COVID adversely impacted musicians and live music. Some bands didn’t make it. Others, however, maximized their downtime to record...

Can A Brother Catch A Break?

Vital, sweaty, innovative, and pure rock music is still out there, but it’s getting harder to find on radio or MTV. For bands that really want to break through and...

By Night from Plague Vendor on Epitaph Records

Plague Vendor: Spreading the Music.

Plague Vendor: California Punk Rockers Riding the Rollercoaster, And The Importance of Knee Pads and Proper Hydration. Plague Vendor is making punk rock real again. The...

September Mourning

September Mourning: It Comes From The Dirt. Fertile Minds Make Dark Art.

I was able to catch up with September Mourning’s charismatic and engaging fountainhead, Emily Lazar, in the final days of rehearsal for their upcoming tour, beginning...

Nothing More Live in St. Louis

Nothing More: Perseverance Pays.

San Antonio’s young hard rock quartet, Nothing More, is finally hitting pay dirt with last year’s release The Stories We Tell Ourselves, the lads are achieving...

Dave Pirner

Soul Asylum: Soul Survivors. 7/21 Hollywood Casino Amphitheater.

Soul Asylum‘s Dave Pirner is a survivor.  Pirner founded Soul Asylum way back in 1981-almost four decades ago and continues to deliver the goods.  In their...

Born Ruffians

Born Ruffians: Projecting Emotions. Live at Old Rock House.

Canada, our better neighbor to the north, has a long and deep history of producing unique bands and important artists. From Rush to the Tragically Hip, April Wine to...

Linnea Vikstrom

Linnea Vikstrom Launches Quantum Field Theory Into Space.

Sweden, the land of ice and snow, is known for some great exports—IKEA, Volvo, and Abba. Add to that list of exports, great metal, as in music. Metal has always...

All Souls: Desert Star Alignment.

With all the bland, synthetic, tasteless, defanged, “music” in the market, and clogging the nation’s airwaves, it’s a blast of fresh air to receive music that...

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