rock

Interview: Pentagram

Bobby Liebling comes out of the dark

Agalloch and Alcest in Romania

Visiting the land of Vlad Tepes

Worm Ouroboros - Self-Titled

Bay Area darkness and beauty

Harvey Milk's S/T: Hear it, love it, do it

Real thing better than the illegal download

Rock in peace, Bon Scott

Ronald Belford “Bon” ScottJuly 9, 1946 – February 19, 1980 Bon Scott could have been my dad. He was the right age. Given his legendary track record, I don’t put it past him. Hell, given his Scottish ancestry, and the fact that I mysteriously have red hairs on my chin — which led an ex-girlfriend […]

Anatomy of a chorus: AC/DC - "War Machine"

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/hqZGJXsiY_s&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0 I’ve always wondered why extreme metal bands don’t write more choruses. By “extreme,” I mean growling/screaming/etc. metal. Singing metal is often based on pop music, so choruses aren’t lacking there. But extreme metal is full of “the voice is just another instrument,” so entire songs and albums go by without the listener understanding a […]

Stone Axe - Self-Titled

by Chris Rowella I have a feeling Tony Reed and I would get along famously. His previous outfit, Mos Generator, was steeped in the Seventies hard rock tradition of Riffs, Hooks, and Blooze. With his new project Stone Axe — essentially a two-man band (Reed records all the instruments) — he’s delving even deeper into […]
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