Baroness: The Red Album Patrick Slevin September 5, 2007 Albums A simple enough concept, a red album, but splashing a coat of paint on the cover of Baroness’ latest would be too easy for frontman John Baizley, well-known for his artistic contribution to the album covers of ...
Family Values @ PNC Bank Arts Center Amanda Hansult August 29, 2007 Concerts It’s kind of ironic that they call it the “Family Values Tour” since that famous four letter “F” word (you know what I fucking mean) was just as much a part of the tour as any other headlining act of the day. A...
All Teeth And Knuckles: Club Hits To Hit The Clubs With Stephanie Keller August 29, 2007 Albums White folks have their own hip hop now. Forget the days of silly white boys copying their more talented brothers. California twosome Teeth And Knuckles are bringing a spanking fresh vibe to the genre in the for...
Dax Riggs: We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love Patrick Slevin August 23, 2007 Albums From the guitar crunch midway through its soulful opener, “Demon Tied To A Chair In My Brain,” We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love is laid plain. With deadboy and the Elephantmen disbanded —though several former musi...
Rock The Bells @ Randall’s Island Chris Castro August 22, 2007 Concerts RANDALL’S ISLAND, NY—The gates had only been open for about 10 minutes and already there were over 1,000 people waiting for security to open the main stage barrier to the greatest hip hop acts of today and y...
Dispatch: Zimbabwe @ Madison Square Garden Chris Castro August 15, 2007 Concerts “Could you answer all the questions of the world with just one word?” —“Elias” by Dispatch “Welcome to the original first night of Dispatch: Zimbabwe!” shouted guitarist Chad Stokes Urmston. The thousands...
The Starting Line: Direction Courtney Muir August 15, 2007 Albums In light of the recent struggle The Starting Line have gone through to keep themselves off an episode of “Behind The Music,” the modern rockers have spent almost two years slaving over their newly released albu...
Sounds Of The Underground @ Starland Ballroom Duckie Blakney August 8, 2007 Concerts SAYREVILLE, NJ—For a metal festival, this year’s Sound Of The Underground wasn’t half bad (that being said with a pinch of salt because it was about five billion degrees, and the one band I went to see, Heavy H...
Sixx A.M.: The Herion Diaries Soundtrack Tim Louie August 8, 2007 Albums Motley Crue co-founder/songwriter/bassist Nikki Sixx is releasing a book this September based on his heroin addiction, depression, cheating death, and recovery. The book covers a year in Nikki’s life, which he ...
The Oohlas! @ Webster Hall Martin Halo August 1, 2007 Concerts NEW YORK, NY—Performing a short set at Webster Hall in support of Maximo Park, the California based The Oohlas! arrived in NYC to showcase selections off their Stolen Transmission debut, Best Stop Pop, which hi...
