In the instrumental post-metal genre, there is Red Sparowes and there is everyone else. Rather than merely relying on the tenants of the post-rock genre and eliminating the vocals like many others, they voice their three-guitar sound with a result that sounds less like a rock band and more like…

BROOKLYN, NY—It was a night originally destined to be at the much larger Brooklyn Masonic Temple, but that was wishful thinking on the part of the promoters, perhaps, for Jello Biafra’s first New York show fronting his own band in many years. Possibly decades.

Sure, he’d been around with the…

NEW YORK HARBOR, NY—While this is the tenth year of the Rocks Off Concert Cruise, I must admit, I had never been on one until 2010. Being a picky bastard, if I’m going to a show just to see an opener, I like to leave early, or if I’m just…

Considered by many to be Adult Swim’s flagship series, and by far its longest running cartoon, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a show set in Southern New Jersey about the exploits of a “crime-fighting” milkshake named Master Shake, a box of French fries named Frylock, and a ball of red…

The sad case of recent Deftones albums is the story around the work is more interesting than the work itself. Case in point is an unfortunate car accident that has left bassist Chi Cheng in a semi-conscious state (coincidentally, the band’s earliest riffs were born while guitarist Stephen Carpenter was…

In the days following the explosion in the Gulf Of Mexico of a BP oil rig, the news narrative gradually developed from a curio into a full-blown ongoing crisis. Originally, the worry was the explosion killed a few workers, which it likely did, but as the blow-out preventer on the…

California’s Weezer is a band that needs little introduction. But we’ll give it a try anyway. Their debut self-titled, affectionately referred to as the Blue Album, is a bonafide rock and roll mid-‘90s success with its self-deprecating but upbeat songs about love, nervous breakdowns and social awkwardness. And despite the…

Minus The Bear is a breed of band that exhausts music journalism’s hyphen-crazy classifications. Prog-indie-experimental-math-pop? What does that mean, anyway?

And now, with Omni, their fourth full-length which streets next week, they can tack on R&B and soul to that list. Oh, don’t freak out or anything, Seattle’s quirky, loveable…

Two Vancouver ladies, guitarist/singer Becky Black and drummer Maya Miller, continue the White Stripes-y duo movement with We Kill Computers, the band’s third release in four years. Consisting of 13 unpolished tracks, the simple blues/punk songs never break the four minute mark and are on a whole minimally produced, with…

It’s hard to even refer to Darkthrone as a black metal band anymore, as they seem to have gone full speed metal/crust punk since The Cult Is Alive and perhaps most notably F.O.A.D. But if you think I’m complaining, it couldn’t be farther from the truth. While the duo of…