When they were just adolescent sasquatches, The Melvins made music for all the right reasons. They were bored in a small town and nothing goes better with beer, weed and wayward adolescence than rock guitar played really fucking fast. In Washington State, these guys were legend material from the get go, stomping around with the […]
Aside from Kanye West, there are few producers in the game who are as prolific as Prince Paul; Paul just doesn’t have the bling to match his bangin’ tracks. Though Prince Paul will probably be remembered most for his groundbreaking contributions to De La Soul’s classic LP 3 Feet High and Rising, or more recently, […]
When Finch released their debut full-length, What It Is To Burn, in 2002, it catapulted them to world stardom, going gold and helping to kick-start the still-rampant emo explosion. The Temecula quintet spent almost a year in the studio recording the much anticipated follow up, Say Hello To Sunshine, which finally gets a release next […]
Recently the folks over at Cleopatra/Deadline records published a hardcover book entitled Hollywood Rocks chronicling the debauchery that transpired within the metal scene along L.A.’s infamous Sunset Strip from around 1979 until the grunge meteor struck in the early ‘90s, almost single-handedly rendering metal extinct. Wisely they decided to put out an audio companion with […]
Paul Green. Living vicariously through the kids that he teaches. Demanding perfection in every way. Affecting their lives forever. This is the real School of Rock, featured in this year’s documentary. Not in a high school led by actor Jack Black, but a place of learning started and run by Green – a place of […]
The problem with being kooky is that it essentially means you’re irritating. The problem with Sick Bees is that they have moments of brilliance that are followed by absolute bollocks, because they lapse into kooky-ville all too often. You get the feeling that there was no editing process for The Marina Album, no “Hey-Maybe-We-Shouldn’t-Use-This-Track-After-All” discussion, […]
