It has been said that a band shouldn’t put out their own material unless it’s really good and that people will want it. In the [...]

Long before it was fashionable for guitar- and drum-driven rock duos to kick out the jams in a stripped-down way, Athens, Georgia’s Jucifer were perfecting [...]

First and foremost, there is that voice. It is seductive, sensual, and dusky. It is a siren’s call that leads you further down a path [...]

Instrumental post-rock outfit Pelican have announced the long awaited follow-up to their 2009 full-length, What We All Come To Need: a new four-song EP entitled Ataraxia/Taraxis, to be [...]

Download a free MP3 of “Pus City” by Monogamy Party, the title track from their latest album available on Good To Die Records! Click (right [...]

Our definitive list returns! Featuring chart-topping albums, some returning veterans, and a few surprise upstarts. Join us as we count down the best albums of the year.

This special double-CD/vinyl reissue features two versions of Coalesce‘s Give Them Rope. Disc one contains the original 1997 release (with a slight remastering job), while disc [...]

Meet Brokaw, forerunners of the hard rock resurgence in Seattle.

Hardcore punk zine Define the Meaning has announced that they are shutting down after a six-year run. The New Jersey-based zine has been run by [...]

Grammy-award winning musician and producer Chris Vrenna, drummer and keyboardist for Marilyn Manson, has left the band to focus on his growing film and video game [...]

The newest album from this long-running San Francisco outfit is easily one of the best hard rock/metal releases of the year.  Principal Hammer John Cobbett [...]

I never really understood why this band was tagged with the label “hipster metal,” as if their music was any more false than any of [...]

Check out pics and a review of Puscifer’s performance in Seattle. Maynard James Keenan and Carina Round danced up a storm.

According to Rolling Stone, Gwar guitarist Cory Smoot (who performed the role of “Flattus Maximus”) was found dead by bandmates today as they prepared to [...]

Paul Stanley, guitarist and vocalist of KISS, underwent surgery for “recurring vocal cord issues” Tuesday. His doctors say he will make a “swift and complete” [...]