Category: Music

Pawn Shoppe Heart is the major label debut album from The Von Bondies, the Detroit-based quartet whose provocative persona, unerring instincts and alluring approach to the essentials of great modern music have elevated their status as one of today’s most influential and innovative young bands after just one independent release. Twelve potent and persuasive original…

Rex Shelverton (vocals/guitar) Jonah Buffa (guitar/harmonica) Jeremy Bringetto (bass) Jessica Ann Graves (keyboard) Rafael Orlin (drums) Vue blend the raw immediacy of punk and the desolate passion of the blues into an archetypal musical fusion that is as unique as it is modern. This is a band that embraces its dark side, is not afraid…

Keith Kane – vocals/guitar Sean Hurley – bass Matt Scannell – lead vocals/guitar Ed Toth – drums It all started at a Georgetown undergrad party in 1991. Keith Kane was strumming an acoustic guitar and asked fellow student and guitar player, Matt Scannell, to join him. The chemistry between Matt and Keith was evident and…

Terry Abbott – Vocals Guitar | MORE Keith Lambert – Bass Programming | MORE Ant Forbes – Guitar Keyboards | MORE Nick Goulding – Guitar Bass | MORE Ben Calvert – Drums | MORE When Ross Robinson – the producer behind Slipknot, Korn, At The Drive-In and Amen – phones you up in the middle…

What I love the most is coming up with the song,” says a beaming Angela Va. “But more recently, what’s really been great is hearing the way people react when they hear the music. I mean, if people find that they can relate to these songs or are just having fun with the album, that’s…

Pounding at the heard of the purpose-built sound of Videodrone is the emphatic assertion that emotions and electricity can coexist in a realm of pure expression. “Power Tools For Girls,” “The Devil’s Sweepstakes,” “Human Pinata,” “Pig In A Blanket,” — the eleven tracks of Videodrone’s incendiary self-titled debut album on Elementree/Reprise Records drive home the…

With their 1978 eponymous debut, Van Halen simultaneously re-wrote the rules for rock guitar and hard rock in general. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen redefined what electric guitar could do, developing a blindingly fast technique with a variety of self-taught two-handed tapping, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and effects that mimicked the sound of machines and animals. It was…

My father was a part-time painter and pimp. He was also a summer resident at an insane asylum, a result of his having faked mental illness in order to get a break from the heat and monotony of his full-time job as a factory worker. And, on at least one occasion, I went to visit…

Van Morrison was born in Belfast in 1945, the son of a shipyard worker who collected American blues and jazz records. Van grew up listening to the music of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Lightnin’ Hopkins and John Lee Hooker. As a teenager he played guitar, sax and harmonica with a series of local Irish showbands,…

“I want nothing fake. Nothing posed. Nothing made up. No more images. I’m sick of all that shit,” declares Vanilla Ice, whose long, strange, creative trip has had more spectacular highs and lows than just about anyone’s and who is astoundingly candid about the journey. But it’s his new music that does the real talking.…