Columbus, Ohio, foursome Eye embark on a psychedelic quest to melt ears and minds with their first album, Center Of The Sun, which gets its name from the four-part, 20-minute opening track. Eye put the record out on their own last year and were picked up by Brooklyn’s Kemado Records…

Last week, I began the arduous process of going through the Aquarian’s photo file.

I’ve had more than my fair share of experience in those looming filing cabinets over the years. The walls of the editorial office have old press shots taped up of everyone from Napalm Death to Count…

I was late getting home Sunday night from a show, and listening to the news on the radio, I heard a BBC report about how Russia was trying to pressure Syria to have a two-hour pause in their ongoing civilian slaughterfest to allow humanitarian workers to administer aid to the…

When I spoke to guitarist Niklas Källgren of Swedish heavy rocking trio Truckfighters last week, he was in a restaurant in Chicago. Outside it was cold, “like Sweden,” he said, laughing. His band was just starting a two-week tour that had already seen its fair share of tumult, considering…

When we spoke, drummer Dave Witte of Municipal Waste was in Oakland, California. It was 3 p.m. his time—6 p.m. mine, if you don’t feel like extrapolating the difference in time zones—and when the call didn’t come in for the phoner, I figured it was no big deal. He…

EASTON, PA—Oddly enough, when I found out my New Jerseyan hometown heroes The Atomic Bitchwax were doing a show at the School Of Rock in Easton, Pennsylvania, right across the border, I knew exactly where the spot was. I’d never been to the School Of Rock before, and so…

Something I’ve learned to do living on a weekly deadline is combine tasks. This Deleted Scenes column needs to get written every issue, and I seem to have a perpetual string of interns to train—so this week, I decided to do the ol’ “two birds, one stone” thing and present…

Salt Lake City trio Dwellers made their debut at the end of January in the form of Good Morning Harakiri (Small Stone), an album that takes its name from the Japanese suicide ritual—otherwise known as “seppuku”—that involves one cutting open one’s own stomach while a trusted compatriot waits to…

After returning from a triumphant European tour in 2011, Massachusetts doom trio Black Pyramid set about making the follow-up to their excellent 2009 self-titled MeteorCity debut. The album that ensued, II, was recorded by drummer Clay Neely, and would wind up the final statement of that incarnation of the…

This week, specifically tomorrow, Feb. 9, comedian Wanda Sykes is coming to the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank. She is fucking hilarious. You should go see her.

I interviewed Wanda Sykes by telephone (it’s amazing how old fashioned that word seems; like I had to crank up the phone…