As millions of Americans get ready to toke up in celebration of 4-20, esteemed High Times cultivation editor (or whatever title he has this month as the supreme marijuana publication’s masthead is forever changing) Danny Danko has unleashed the most comprehensive examination of cannabis strains yet. Able to reach…

Fertile Scottish combo, Mogwai, became a provocative ‘post-rock’ beacon in the mid-‘90s, extending upon the profound reverb-heavy shoegazing Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine devised and the proverbial noise rock experimentalism Sonic Youth pillaged. Fronted by proficient guitarist Stuart Braithwaite, these artful punks established themselves as one…

As founder and guitarist for Twisted Sister, Jay Jay French is used to making a lot of noise onstage, but now he is raising his voice to scream “We’re Not Gonna Take It” for another reason: to promote awareness of uveitis. His 17-year-old daughter, Samantha, has been battling the…

Marking their latest unexpected comeback, 20 years after their fourth studio album, the Feelies are like a cat with nine lives. Originally from Haledon, the Velvet Underground-nurtured outfit, led by singer-guitarists Glenn Mercer and Bill Million, scored instant left-of-the-dial radio success with 1980’s soft rock masterstroke, Crazy Rhythms. Prefiguring…

Lead vocalist/guitarist Cameron Leahy and drummer Eric Jones formed The Downtown Fiction in Summer of 2008, and brought bassist/vocalist David Pavluk into the mix shortly thereafter. In the three years or so since then, they’ve been incredibly successful, achieving more than bands who’d been together much longer. The release…

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This is mostly bollocks. (ANGLO-AMERICA ON PARADE – Issue: 3/2/11) Of course the British society depicted has a rigid and repressed hierarchy—the movie is set 70-90 years ago within the Royal Family.

British society has changed enormously since then (as has American society), and, having lived in America…

If you want something done right, you’ve got to do it yourself, even if that means doing it without a major record label or a public utility company. With Showroom Of Compassion, CAKE’s new album, founding members vocalist/guitarist John McCrea, trumpet/keyboardist Vince DiFiore and bandmates bassist Gabriel Nelson, guitarist…

When they formed in 1995, I don’t think Creed realized just how big of a band they were going to be. Joined by guitarist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips, singer Scott Stapp helped rocket Creed into superstardom, becoming one of the most successful rock bands…

Though Young The Giant has been touring for half of a decade, they only recently decided to leave a more permanent mark on the music scene with their self-titled debut, a series of deep but accessible streams of consciousness inspired by the group’s stay at the beach. The Aquarian…

After a six-year interval (the reasons for which are discussed below), Chicago/Georgia outfit American Heritage return with their second Translation Loss full-length, Sedentary. The album, which features a different bassist on every track, is a massive leap forward from 2005’s Millenarian, finding the band throwing off some of their…