Red Fang have been on the go more or less since their 2009 self-titled debut came out. Certainly since they put out their first album on Relapse, 2011’s Murder The Mountains. Constant touring, appearances here and there on compilations, hilarious videos—all this in combination with their unrepentantly glorious hooks…

Last weekend was the much-touted Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Suck An Egg Sunday (okay, I don’t know what Sunday is), and Cyber Monday. A day for everything, traditionally the biggest holiday shopping weekend of the year. And every time it happens, sure enough there are those who decry the…

Maybe it’s just me on this one, but I’ve noticed for the last couple years that I’m really uncomfortable telling people “Happy Thanksgiving.”

Consciously, I know Thanksgiving isn’t a religious holiday, and if you’re in the U.S., even if you’re not a citizen—if you’re a tourist just showing up, day…

“You can’t predict baseball.”

   If you’ve ever listened to even one of the nine innings of a New York Yankees radio broadcast, then chances are that little nugget of brilliance has made its way past your eardrums and into your brain. The oft-repeated line, courtesy of the golden throat…

There will be more tributes next week from those who knew him and worked with him—which I cannot and will not say I ever did—but as that comes together, it would be neglect on our part not to immediately note and mourn the passing of The Aquarian founder James Rensenbrink,…

Japan’s number one serial killer-obsessed stoner doom outfit, Church Of Misery, return to U.S. shores this month in support of their 2013 full-length, Thy Kingdom Scum. The album, released by Metal Blade, pays homage to Black Sabbath musically and a slew of murderers throughout, as Church Of Misery punch out…

Stop me if I’ve told you this before, but there’s a tiny monkey that lives inside my head. In the spot where most people have a brain, I have a very small monkey. He wears a tiny little hat (why not?) and has big oversized hands. Not huge—they still have…

He was an avatar of cool, who set a standard that an entire generation within New York and without it tried and more often than not failed to match. Lewis Allan Reed could be as understated musically as the three letters of the single-syllable he went by for decades—Lou—but…

Jersey-based rockers Riotgod will play one show this year, and it’s Oct. 31 at the Stone Pony with Sekond Skyn, The Battery Electric, Harvey Djent and Flowers To Flames. That’s right—a Halloween extravaganza meant to act as a precursor to the release of the band’s third album, Driven•Rise, coming…

To all the nations on this earth:

America does not care about you. Your sovereignty, your rights, the fact that you exist and are the same species as its inhabitants. You simply do not matter.

Maybe America says it’s your friend, that it’s got your back in wars, bro, or…