There’s a whole bunch of music exploding out of Chicagoland lately, up to and including our previous review of the Afrofuturistics.  One can...

Do we here at BGM know the first damn thing about jazz?  I don’t want to speak for Chris, but I’m going to say the answer is a resounding ‘h...

Great songs are the ones that echo through our lives, so connected to our thoughts and emotions that we never hear the pulses fading as the ...

After nearly a decade of silence, we recently got word that Edguy is returning, at least to the stage. They will be playing in their hometow...

Let's just jump straight in today:  Tony Iommi - World Alone After the passing of Ronnie James Dio, Jorn Lande sang with Heaven & He...

Today, class, we’re going to use an exceptionally nerdy analogy to help define what Combichrist’s new album The Venom In The Mouth Of God ...

If you've paid any attention to the news over the last decade-plus, you'll be familiar with the concept of distraction as strategy. ...

Summer is in full swing, and there has not been a 'song of the summer' to my ears as of yet, or at least not one that isn't on t...

I don't pretend to know the complications and considerations that go into the business of making music, but sometimes the optics make ve...

Ten years ago, I sat here to muse about my relationship with "Lemon Parade" after twenty years of listening and love. Tonic was my...