On the way to work this morning, for no reason whatsoever, I had a Primordial song stuck in my head. Well, maybe it was because I saw the Irish post-black metallers a couple weeks back and their stuff at its best is just catchy enough to resonate that long after…

The music industry experienced two significant deaths in the last couple weeks. First, of country music legend George Jones, who died on April 26 at 81, and second, of Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who died May 2 at the age of 49 of liver failure.

I’m not one for mourning…

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dave Grohl’s the savior of rock and roll. That’s fine and dandy if you were fool enough to buy the line that rock and roll needed saving in the first place, that rock and roll hasn’t been here the whole time, kicking around grooves in hollowed…

The Barry O. Show

I just finished watching President Obama’s speech at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I’m sure you’ve seen it by now—because that’s just the kind of hip-to-the-news, switched-on cat you are—but just in case someone not so clued-in should happen to pick up The Aquarian this…

The thing about terrorism is it has been shown time and time again to not work. Oh sure, there’s some mention of who took credit for whatever bombing it was this week here or abroad, and the perpetrator if they’re alive get put on trial or more likely get killed…

Having hit the road on the 19th with fellow Virginian extremists Inter Arma, Harrisonburg metallers Earthling are hitting Kung Fu Necktie in Philly on April 24 and Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar on April 27, playing tracks off their Forcefield Records debut, Dark Path. The album has been a few years…

Oh hi! Come right in. I’m guessing you saw the house on Zillow? Isn’t the future great? Well, this is it. What’s that? Yes, I know we only put two pictures of the exterior online, and that they were taken from down the street and out of focus, but that’s…

If you’re planning on hitting up Wellmont Theatre in Montclair April 19 to catch Opeth—and hell, even if you’re not but are up for changing your plans—make sure you get there in time to catch Katatonia in the support slot. The Swedish masters of melancholy are touring in support of…

What is it about death that makes us all drop everything and uncritically praise somebody? I’ve never understood that impulse, and so as I read the reactions to the death of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from Britain’s Labour Party, the heralding of her achievements by those who worked…

A while back, my wife and I did the math on it, and determined that by the time I turn 33 in 2014, we will have been together for more than half our lives. I’m not on my own often, but this past weekend—brilliant as she is—she flew to take…