Some of the big, tent-pole albums (for me) of the next few months have been announced, and with them we get our first tastes. That is exciti...

I often hear people talking about music that is 'fast' or 'heavy' as though those are descriptions of how good the music is....

When someone cites a band as an influence who happens to have had distinct chapters in their history, it's not as helpful a touchstone a...

To borrow the title phrase of this album, here is the gospel truth; Gilby Clarke is mostly only famous for being a replacement. His stint in...

Theatricality is hard to pull off in rock music. The two don't always mesh, and even when you have a personality who can put the two tog...

We talk about our lives as though they are movies, pulling scenes from our memories as we recount them, hearing in our minds a soundtrack th...

Success was the worst thing that ever happened to The Offspring. Hear me out. When "Smash" became the biggest independent album of...

Any attempt to decipher the motivations of twenty-first century Rob Zombie may well be a fool’s errand.  Admitting this is hardly revolution...

It's funny that 'classic rock' has become it's own particular sound, since it was originally meant as an indicator of a peri...

At this point in time, we have many examples of bands where there are two concurrent versions out there confusing the market, all because th...