Hey everybody, as we catch up on some new stuff, I need to address the articles that got caught up in the site’s hiatus.  From last summer, this was Mayhemfest 2011:     Well boys and girls, it’s summer and it’s that time again, Summer Fests time.  Of course, I mainly refer to metal festivals

Y Luv’s set at Silverlake Lounge was short, but sweet. After all, Y Luv only has one EP out. But even with the small crowd, they certainly had fun playing and they did it with as much energy as if they were playing in front of a packed venue.

Looking back at my notes for the evening one word crammed its way onto my phone more frequently than any other: ‘stomping’. This wasn’t just referring to Thao’s surely scuffed-to-fuck cowboy boots, but the raw music itself – here was a sound pulsing with the most sonically destructive of beats, and yet it rang in that jovial vein of play and bliss. This was something warm, something loud, a sun-tinged gift brought by Thao & Mirah

The final few strums gave way to a fade as the chorus to “Long Time to Lose It” sang true. “That was a closer,” frontman Andrew Kenny explained to view the crowd. “In case you were checking things off on your mid-tempo rock-bingo cards, that was a fucking closer.” Live Review: Wooden Birds at the Rhythm Room – Phoenix,

As she stood atop her bass drum, balanced and at the vertical, her arms shot out across the crowd as if commanding the sweat-soaked masses with her drum sticks; with a smile in front and a keyboard ringing from behind, the troops loved every minute of it. This was how Kim Schifino celebrated her birthday

Nearly 30 years after pioneering their unique blends of Metal and reshaping the Rock landscape forever, the Big 4, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, and Metallica, come together for one night on American soil to unleash metal fury of thousands of rabid headbangers!!! Full disclosure: this is a concert that I’ve been dreaming of since I was

  Guerillas with Decoder Rings The Aquabats Mesa, AZ Venue: The Nile February 26, 2011 There exists but one proper way to witness the pure spectacle that is an Aquabats show, and that is to view it from behind the confines of a cheesy, black, superhero mask. And as I watched the fury unfold atop