Anthrax are celebrating 40 years of being a band and gifting all their fans with a tour that’s one for the books. These thrash metal legends sold out the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, CA and brought two heavy metal giants with them, Black Label Society and Hatebreed. All three of …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: Primus with The Black Angels in Riverside, CA (06.23.2022)
Primus recently finished up the second leg of their A Tribute To Kings tour which pays homage to classic rock icons Rush and their album A Farewell To Kings released in 1977. Primus toured for two months plus on this second leg and stopped at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Riverside, CA …
Read More »Album Review: Francesca Beghe “Live”
Francesca Beghe’s return to performing with a full band for the first time in over 20 years has been thankfully captured on a recording. Francesca Beghe Live sounds like it’s taken from three performances in 2019 and 2020 with a bevy of guest stars kicking off Beghe’s new direction with outstanding accompaniment. …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: Puscifer with Billy Howerdel & Moodie Black at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles (06.12.2022)
After a 6 year touring hiatus Puscifer is back warning everyone “prepare to be probed”! The Existential Reckoning Tour stopped at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, the only California stop on the tour, and put on a performance that was out of this world. On this particular night …
Read More »Album Review: Wreckless Strangers “When the Sun and a Blue Star Collide”
When the Sun and a Blue Star Collide is an excellent and even rather painterly title for Wreckless Strangers’ debut. The California located six piece, a conglomeration of some of the state’s best musicians playing blues and its progeny, are simply five-star musicians delivering a covers album. Instead, they’ve cooked up …
Read More »Single Review: Shiadanni “Penny Pills”
Enveloped in an icy melodicism, we find a fractured but highly enticing lead vocal courtesy of Shiadanni in the new single “Penny Pills,” her most exciting release I’ve heard so far. Although there’s no percussion in the opening bars of this track, we feel the presence of a creeping beat …
Read More »Album Review: Nick Phoenix “Wide World”
Nick Phoenix came to Los Angeles more than two decades ago after finishing college in Connecticut. He hoped, like scores of other young people, to form a band and find musical glory in the City of Angels. It didn’t turn out that way. Phoenix discovered his peers were focused on …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: 311 with Teenage Wrist at The Majestic Ventura Theater (05.12.2022)
311 kicked off the second leg of their North American Spring 2022 tour at The Majestic Ventura Theater in Ventura, CA on May 12th. It has been just over a month since the first leg of the tour was completed and the sold out crowd was anticipating an amazing performance …
Read More »Toronto’s renforshort Is Proving To Be Canada’s Next Pop-Punk Success Story
Toronto’s own renforshort finally made her hometown show debut last week at the city’s legendary Danforth Music Hall. Opening for indie-pop hitmaker and TikTok sensation Tai Verdes, renforshort warmed up a sizeable crowd who made sure to arrive early in support of the local favourite. While she hasn’t performed at …
Read More »Single Review: Bosco “Brothers”
A world sitting on the brink of war needs music to soothe the anger that continues to boil over across every news network and government press conference, and Bosco is seeking to give us that music with the release of his new single and music video “Brothers” this April. Where …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: John 5 with The Haxans at The Garden Amphitheatre in Garden Grove, CA (04.22.2022)
Do you know who John 5 is? Well, if you don’t then you’re missing out. You might know who he is but not sure about what he has done or who he plays with. Well, John 5 has been playing guitar since the late 70s as a child and he’s …
Read More »Single Review: READY, STEADY, DIE! “Kiss It”
From a visual perspective, there’s a sense of darkness that washes over the screen in the music video for READY, STEADY, DIE!’s new single “Kiss It” that compromises the colorful imagery it manipulates almost right out of the gate, but from where I sit, this was the goal of the …
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