As mentioned previously, in the run up to the September celebration of Queensryche’s Empire, los grillos will be telling those who need to know but maybe haven’t heard–especially late-aughts hipters who have embraced late-eighties heavy metal–why it’s time to roll with the Ryche. Reason #33: Operation … Read More →
Load up the bongs and pack up the D&D–The Sword are going to take you on a sci-fi stoner odyssey across time and space! Rocking equal parts Manowar, Metallica, and Blue Oyster Cult, Austin’s favorite Stonehenge metal mystics weave a fantastical tale worthy of the … Read More →
I feel like it is so old fashioned to listen to radio. Ask me when I was nineteen if I thought there was anything good on the radio and I was like, ’fuck radio – it all sucks.’ This was not necessarily true; I did … Read More →
Two of my favorite damaged, dark and intimate psych-folk records this year are Shawn David McMillen’s Dead Friends and The North Sea’s Bloodlines. Added to that list is Dead Songs by Big Blood. Not quite as damaged as McMillen’s deconstructed folk/blues mantras and not quite … Read More →
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses. Junky Star.
In such broken times as these–times that recall the economic aftermath of the eighties when nothing trickled down and everything seemed to swirl down–popular song often reflects the frustrations and struggles of everyday life. Arcade Fire managed to top the Billboard charts with their paeans … Read More →