Three years is just about the longest period between Opeth studio releases in recent memory. Perhaps ever. After releasing Ghost Reveries in the summer of 2005, the band had been on a nearly constant touring schedule right up to this time last year, when they finally took a break to…

I phoned Mike Ness on the morning after the first night of his cross-country tour. Frontman for the three- decades-old, hardcore, punk band, Social Distortion, Ness has been recording and performing solo material since around the time of the 1999 Woodstock Festival, which is where I first saw him live.…

Under the advisement of a few friends, I decided to check out this new tattoo shop that just opened its doors in West Nyack, NY, just last February. The shop is called Body INKorporated and owner Rick Payne is no stranger to the area. In fact, Rick used to own…

Richard Patrick began his musical journey as a guitarist in Nine Inch Nails, but then formed Filter in the mid-‘90s. The band took off with their first release, Short Bus, and it instantly solidified Richard to be a formidable frontman, singer, and songwriter. Despite the band’s notoriety with hits like…

A few years ago I heard about this band with an exclamation point in their name who were recording with Matt Squire. I downloaded some demos off their PureVolume, begged a promo copy of five tracks from their debut off their publicist and proclaimed them the next big thing to…

Music fans in their twenties can probably rely a meaningful Jimmy Eat World experience, usually one that involves one of the songs on their 1999 album, Clarity, which followed the equally powerful Static Prevails. Younger music fans, on the other hand, might just know them as that band currently on…

There’s a new trend of late, with bands appearing on the scene younger and younger. It’s a tried and true method, as seen lately with the massive success of acts such as Paramore and The Jonas Brothers, both undoubtedly adorning the walls of your younger sister’s bedroom. Now there’s a…

These past few weeks I have been interviewing a lot of the bands that will be gracing New Jersey the first weekend in May for the long-awaited Bamboozle Festival. Each one of them is anticipating their own set and anxious to watch all the bands that they have not had…

Justin Currie formed the band Del Amitri in 1980 by posting an advertisement in a music store in Glasgow, looking for people who could play. After becoming popular on the local music scene, they were signed to Chrysalis in 1984, and released their debut album the following year.

They were…

“On our most recent tour it was surprising people still remembered us and came to the shows…” When Alex Linares, guitarist for iconic post-hardcore band Finch, relayed that answer to me during our interview I couldn’t help but laugh at the thought. As one of the bands credited for ushering…