It’s kind of a shame that my generation missed out on this whole stoner rock/doom metal thingie. The best that we suburban cannabis commando...

One of the more notorious founding fathers of the Norwegian black metal sound, Burzum – the musical realm of Count Grishnackh, a/k/a Varg V...

Dutch heavy metal trailblazers Pestilence – along with contemporaries like Death, Cynic, and Atheist – stood at the creative forefront of t...

No doubt, the axe-manglers in Sahg have drunk from the cup of Popoff and listened intently to their scratchy old Sabbath and Zeppelin elpe...

From jump street, Realm ’s 1988 debut album Endless War comes galloping out of your speakers like the Four Horsemen of some alternative, le...

I wrote previously about MVD Audio, the CD end of the Music Video Distributors empire, coming to an agreement with Roadrunner Records to rei...

New album releases in 200 words or less… Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite – 100 Years of Blues (Alligator Records) Guitar maestro Elv...

October is here and the labels will be emptying their vaults and clearing their slates to get Q4 releases off the books with an eye tow...

Classically-trained violinist Don “Sugar Cane” Harris was one of the most interesting characters in rock music. Harris formed the mid-50s r...