A big—and frankly, enjoyable—stink was made this past week when our illustrious rising Republican star governor, Chris Christie, while taking a break from cutting school budgets, hating gays and swiping giant lollipops from bonnet-clad babies in oversized strollers (or whatever it is he does with his afternoons), took a helicopter…

Heavy rock gods the Melvins—ever the conceptualists—are on a tour of two-night “residencies” that will see them playing a few of their best albums for eager fans across the country. After already hitting Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Chicago and Boston, on June 6 and 7, they’ll be closing out…

As the frontman and main songwriter behind U.K. industrialists Godflesh in the early-‘90s, Justin K. Broadrick became one of the most pivotal figures in underground extreme music. It was a surprise in the middle part of the last decade when, post-Godflesh’s dissolution, he launched the more melodic, melancholic and…

It’s 1:36 a.m., and I may have just shut down my computer for the last time.

I should probably explain. Obviously it’s not the computer I’m typing on now, which is a laptop I rarely if ever actually put on my lap because I’m afraid it’ll give me testicular cancer…

On the eve of U.K. doomers Orange Goblin’s first run of U.S. dates in the five years since they came around with Scissorfight to support 2004’s Thieving From The House Of God, I rang up frontman Ben Ward for a quick chat about the timing. You see, it’s been…

I was reading one of the many “Hey, the apocalypse didn’t happen” news articles over this past weekend—following the no-show from Jesus Christ on the day the much-publicized group Family Radio said he’d be doing that whole second-coming thing—and there was a truck driver who’d taken off work to drive…

It doesn’t feel much like it today, because it’s raining, and cold and generally miserable, but I’m not fooled. Summer is right around the corner, and no, I didn’t just know that from the fact that this week is our Summer Concert Guide. The signs, as they say, are all…

The center of the Blackfield listening experience has always been the songwriting interplay between the band’s two central figures: Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree and Israeli singer/songwriter Aviv Geffen. On their 2004 self-titled, the pair set a contemplative tone, more progressive than pop, and with 2007’s follow-up, they began…

Swedish retro rock forerunners Graveyard released their second full-length, Hisingen Blues, in the U.S. on April 19. The album—the band’s first for Nuclear Blast—follows late on the heels of 2008’s self-titled debut, and finds the foursome working hard to develop an individual sound within a classic rock framework that…

I was driving yesterday down I-95 South in Connecticut, coming back from a weekend of Mothers Day family whathaveyou, and I must have seen five or six billboards advertising the end of the world as May 21, 2011. You’d think by now that kind of thing would sell itself and…