JJ Koczan

1. YOB/Atma/Profound Lore

2. Lo-Pan/Salvador/Small Stone

3. Sungrazer/Mirador/Elektrohasch

4. Graveyard/Hisingen Blues/Nuclear Blast

5. Red Fang/Murder The Mountains/Relapse

6. Grayceon/All We Destroy/Profound Lore

7. Mars Red Sky/Mars Red Sky/Emergence

8. Hull/Beyond The Lightless Sky/The End

9. Rwake/Rest/Relapse

10. Weedeater/Jason… The Dragon/Southern Lord

Andrew Magnotta

1. JOLLY/The Audio…

   Well, I was going to write a big thing about how dumb 2011 was or all the time I wasted waiting for things around me to come together so I could, I don’t know, have a life or something, but screw it. 2011 blew donkey balls, and not much…

Jane By Design peddles fashion-industry fantasy

Tuesday, 9 p.m. (ABC Family)

The new series Jane By Design is a wish-fulfillment fantasy for ordinary teen girls who think they just might wind up in the glamorous fashion industry one day. Jane (Erica Dasher) introduces herself as “a dateless high school…

This will be the last column I pen this year, in the final days of this twelfth month of 2011, and I choose to write about the number 12.

In a few days we embark on 2012, and each year I try and end the previous one with a tag…

The public’s approval rating of Congress is approximately 12 percent. It’s a pretty pathetic picture of what the public thinks of the job Congress is doing. And with the shape our government is in, and the mess they’ve contributed to in terms of jobs, the economy, the debt, foreign wars,…

As unfortunate as it sounds, it really shouldn’t surprise us anymore when we see celebrities, musicians, athletes, etc., under the influence of drugs. Whether someone’s taking an abundance of prescription drugs, recreational drugs, steroids, female fertility drugs (I’m looking at you, Manny Ramirez), the fact of the matter is…

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Columbia Pictures

Rated R for rape, torture, brutal violence, profanity, frontal nudity and graphic sexuality.

Fincher Makes First-Rate Adaptation of Grisly Swedish Crime Saga

Mikael Blomqvist (Daniel Craig) resigns from his position as editor of Millennium Magazine after being unable to substantiate the…

Have the Leverage con artists met their match?

Sunday, 9 p.m. (TNT)

   Leverage is Mission: Impossible with a sense of humor about itself. In every episode, Timothy Hutton’s gang of thieves and hackers pull off a difficult task to help some underdog. They also pull off the difficult…

This past weekend, I watched as the last U.S. troops were reported to be leaving Iraq. They left under cover of night, in a convoy of military trucks headed across the border into Kuwait, and though going forward, the American embassy in Iraq will employ nearly 16,000 people according to…

Iowa & the Soul of the Grand Old Party

Soon the nation will learn where the Republican Party stands.

In less than three weeks, the Iowa Caucus will begin the painstaking selection of a presidential candidate. This is when polls, punditry and prognostication become fact. So… who represents the party…