Musings on the past and present state of music, film, and pop culture. Get off my lawn.
Jerry Cantrell’s ‘I Want Blood’ Review: Alice in Chains vocalist/guitarist shines on a sullen yet gorgeous new solo album. Jerry Cantrell is one of the most consistent and tasteful songwriters in the business. His work in Alice in Chains shows a distinctive talent for off-kilter sonics, emotive vocals, and a sublime mix of heaviness and […]
Best Rock Albums of 2022: 10 awesome rock albums from another crazy year, featuring releases from Placebo, Suede, Dead Cross, The Cult and more. As 2022 comes to an end, it’s time to reflect. The pandemic has become more manageable, but is still with us, and on a global scale most things still feel out of […]
Greg Puciato ‘Mirrorcell’ Review: ex-Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist indulges his love for 90s grunge and 80s new wave on sophomore solo album. The Dillinger Escape Plan may have broken up in 2017, but former frontman Greg Puciato has still been plenty busy. In the ensuing years he’s released two albums from his electronic project The […]
The Best Alternative Rock and Metal Albums of 2020: 13 of the best releases from a year that needed great music more than ever. What more can be said about the shit-show that was 2020? It’s been awful, exhausting, demoralizing, harrowing, maddening and relentless. But despite that, we found ways to adapt, some by sidestepping […]
Killer Be Killed ‘Reluctant Hero’ Review: metal supergroup bring the goods on sophomore LP. Killer Be Killed are in every sense a super-group: with members from the likes of Mastodon, Dillinger Escape Plan, Sepultura, Soulfly and Converge. Anytime so many esteemed musicians join forces, there is always a fear of “too many cooks in the […]
