Musings on the past and present state of music, film, and pop culture. Get off my lawn.
13 Best Rock and Metal Albums Of 2021: great music from a not-so-great year. I feel like every time I do yearly-best-of’s, I have to comment about how great music made a shitty year more bearable. Welp, 2021 was certainly another year that was pretty fucking terrible, when we desperately needed as many sonic escape […]
Monolord ‘Your Time To Shine’ Review: Swede stoner rock trio bring the goods on new Relapse Records release. The last we heard from Swedish rockers Monolord, was their 2019 effort No Comfort, an album which in title and scope pre-dated pandemic anxiety through its unique mix of brutality and inner reflection. The trio are back […]
Episode 38: Dave Wyndorf Talks New Monster Magnet Album ‘A Better Dystopia’-SLIS Podcast: Monster Magnet frontman discusses band new album of obscure cover songs and how it relates to our pandemic present. When Monster Magnet frontman/songwriter Dave Wyndorf was stuck in pandemic lockdown, he decided the best thing to do was keep busy, and he […]
Monster Magnet ‘A Better Dystopia’ Review: psych rockers pay tribute to their cult influences with bombastic results on new collection of cover songs. What’s a restless musical genius to do when stuck at home during a pandemic? If you’re Monster Magnet frontman and mastermind Dave Wyndorf, you get the band back in the studio and […]
Episode 35: 25 Albums Turning 25 in 2020-The Best Albums of 1995-SLIS Podcast Following last year’s podcast episode celebrating the best albums from 1994, co-host Chris Logan and I dive in to the best 25 albums from 25 years ago, in this case the year 1995. ’95 was another great year for alternative rock in all […]
Monolord ‘No Comfort’ Review: Swedish stoner rock trio mix big riffs with heartache on latest release. Monolord haven’t been around very long, but they have made their presence known with four albums, an EP and a pair of ten-inch singles released in just six years. This brisk pace has shown the group growing and refining […]
40 Alternative Rock Albums Turning 20 in 2018-Best Albums of 1998: SLIS and contributor Peter Marks look back at landmark albums hitting the two decade mark this year. As the 90s began to wane, there was a cultural shift. Alternative rock, be it grunge or Britpop was winding down. Electronica never really reached past it’s […]
Episode 3: Dave Wyndorf discusses group’s stripped-down politically fuelled album on this week’s podcast. This week on the SLIS podcast we’re talking to a very special guest: Dave Wyndorf, the founding member and frontman of stoner rock icons Monster Magnet. I spoke to Wyndorf about the group’s new album Mindfucker (click here for my review), […]
Monster Magnet ‘Mindfucker’ Review: Dave Wyndorf makes a party record to help survive the Trump era. [rating=4] I had this idea in my head that this would be kind of a “good time” record…But with a real Detroit edge to it….Why not? I’d never done that before. When writing an album of songs, I always […]
SLIS’s 15 Most Anticipated Rock Albums of 2018: the alternative and metal releases we can’t for this year. Did you survive 2017? Well 2018 is probably gonna be just as crazy, so we need some new tunes to power though it. Luckily there’s a host of upcoming alternative and metal albums we’re excited about hearing […]
