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Poll Results: The votes are in for The Top 10 Alternative Rock Drummers! So let’s countdown the winners. Tied entries are listed in reverse alphabetical order. Let’s begin: 10. Chuck Biscuits 3% The former Danzig drummer’s solid chops brought distinction for his work with Danzig as well as Black Flag and Social Distortion, just to name […]
No sooner did I post that The Cure were confirmed as headliners for both weekends of the 2013 ACL Music festival did the announcement for the full lineup appear on the festival’s website and Facebook page. This is a lineup that will make many alternative rock fans shit their pants. In addition to the Cure and Muse, Depeche […]
Well news of Austin’s ACL Fest Lineup just took a turn for the gloriously gloomy. Alternative Rock Icons The Cure are scheduled to headline both weekends of the 2013 festival. The band was rumored to headline when an anagram of their name was featured on the festivals webpage last week (as ERH TCUE). There slot was […]
Slayer founding member, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Hanneman dead at 49. Metal fans and musicians the world over were shaken yesterday at the unexpected news that Slayer’s Jeff Hanneman, died of liver failure at the young age of 49. The news came via a press release from the band: “Slayer is devastated to inform that […]
New Trailer for “The Wolverine” looks Ninja-tastic. 20th Century Fox has just released a brand new trailer for the upcoming Wolverine (sequel/prequel/do-over?) movie, and it looks promising. Clearly taking a page from the Chris Claremont/Frank Miller 1983 comic miniseries, “The Wolverine” takes Logan to Japan, where he battles hordes of Ninjas, fights the Silver Samurai […]
Top 10 Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episodes: A look back at the 10 best episodes of a cult classic TV series. Shows like The Soup, The Daily Show, Tosh.0, along with snarky blogs like mine, have had great success goofing over pop culture mishaps. But I wonder, would it be that way without Mystery Science Theater […]
Vote! Pick your choice for the Best Drummers in Alternative Rock. **UPDATE: Polls are closed! Click here to view the winners. A few weeks ago I conducted a poll for the best bassists in alternative rock. (click here to see the results.) It proved so popular, that I thought it would be fun to do the […]
Album Review: Iggy And The Stooges ‘Ready To Die.’ Iggy and co. do a do-over from the disastrous ‘The Weirdness.’ Mission partly accomplished. [rating=3] The Stooges 2007 release ‘The Weirdness‘ remains one of the worst comeback albums ever. It got terrible reviews and espoused the old adage that ‘you can’t go home again.’ But Iggy […]
The SLIS Interview with Tommy Victor. Tommy Victor has been busy. Last year saw the release of Prong’s ‘Carved Into Stone‘, one of the band’s best to date (click here for my review). In addition he played on Ministry’s latest album ‘Relapse‘ and is currently touring with Danzig for his 25th Anniversary tour. He’s also […]
Concert Review: Danzig redeems himself after the Fun Fun Fun Fest Fiasco with a blistering set of his punk and metal classics. [rating=5] Last time Danzig played the TX capital it was a bad scene. His shortened, delayed set at Austin’s FunFunFunFest has now become legendary, where according to promoters he went into diva mode. So […]
