tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28891869219849720902012-02-11T15:35:36.165-05:00In which I give my opinions and thoughts on various things and no one reads them.DICK TUDORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14574926919095021835noreply@blogger.comBlogger2431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889186921984972090.post-91187281717353820092010-07-20T17:14:00.000-04:002010-07-20T17:14:43.738-04:00

Back in 2000, I used to swap promos (promotional copies of records that record companies [used to?] make to give to journalists, radio stations, etc.) with a guy at Sub Pop. He had sent me a record called In Name And Blood by a band I had never heard before called The Murder City Devils. I listened to the album a few times and LOVED it, but my real appreciation of the album came about when it was

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Early Man - Death PotionEarly Man are one of the handful of bands involved in the '80s thrash metal revival that I actually enjoy. Their latest album Death Potion is a tasteful nod to Killing Is My Business-era Megadeth and Kill 'Em All-era Metallica. Neither of those bands will return to those eras of their sound, so mine as well enjoy a quality tribute. East Of The Wall - RessentimentEast Of

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A crappy picture to accompany a review of a crappy show. I've seen the Heartless Bastards multiple times. Twice in Austin and twice in the New York City area. They are a fine band and always put on a quality performance. I suspect that they might have done the same last evening, but it was hard to tell because I couldn't hear the band over all the meaningless drunken conversations happening

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I'm not particularly impressed by the '80s thrash revival that is currently happening in the metal scene. It is hard to say if this is because the bands aren't particularly good or because I grew up listening to the bands they are honoring (ripping off) and feel as if I wanted to hear '80s thrash, then I'll just listen to the original bands. Or perhaps it is a combination of both. That being said

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While Iron Maiden's performance at Madison Square Garden this past Monday was amazing, I can't really say the same for the video for the title track off of their new album The Final Frontier. It is a combination of Aliens, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars which in theory sounds like it could be pretty fantastic, but in practice is not. The video also looks fairly

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Have you seen their excellent documentary film "Beyond The Lighted Stage"? If not, then I highly recommend seeing it if you are a fan of the band. I think even folks who aren't particularly interested in Rush, but enjoy a good documentary would get a kick out of it. With excellent archival footage, interviews with the band and testimonials from Gene Simmons of Kiss (who unbeknownst to me actually

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As of late I have been on a huge King's X kick. I've owned Gretchen Goes To Nebraska and Faith Hope Love for many years and enjoy them, but about two months ago really started to dig deeper into their catalog. This may or may not be related to my current obsession with another power trio known as Rush, but before I get off track, let's get back to King's X. I started off with their debut album

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I've been an Iron Maiden fan since I was in junior high school in the late '80s. The first time I ever saw them live was in high school on the No Prayer For The Dying tour (which is often criticized as one of their, if not the, worst Bruce Dickinson-era records, but personally I love it) with Anthrax opening. The show was absolutely amazing and one of the fondest memories I have of my early

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Having already seen Faith No More this past April in San Francisco, I wasn't as excited for their appearances at Williamsburg Waterfront as some of my fellow NY'ers. That in no way means that I wasn't really, really, really psyched to see them live again, it is just that my cherry had already been popped on their reunion shows in the U.S. What I did have to look forward to was hearing a ton of

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Since we are halfway through 2010 (already!??!?!?!?!??!), I thought I would share a list of my Top 25 records released thus far. Obviously, there are more records to be released this year as well as a ton of records released this year that I have not yet heard, so I expect there will be some changes, but for now, this is what by Top 25 of 2010 would look like if the world were to come to an end

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I forgot why exactly I bought Against Me!'s As The Eternal Cowboy around 6 or 7 years ago, but I've been a huge fan of them ever since. The aforementioned As The Eternal Cowboy and the follow-up, Searching For A Former Clarity are my two favorite albums by them although their debut Reinventing Axl Rose is quite good too. After Searching For A Former Clarity came out, Against Me! left Fat Mike of

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A few years ago I attended the wedding of two friends in New Jersey. On the shuttle bus ride from the ceremony to the reception, a friend and I got into a debate about what solo artists with hugely successful careers also had successful careers as members of a band. A few obvious names got batted back and forth before my friend incredulously asked who could possibly have had bigger success with a

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I wind up reading a lot of other people's best of music lists at the end of every year and am inevitably influenced to buy a bunch of albums from said lists. Some I wind up kicking myself for not having discovered earlier, some I think are just OK and the rest I find to be forgettable or downright awful. Below is a list of fifteen (plus one) records released in 2009 that I wound up kicking myself

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When it comes to metal music festivals, Europe definitively gets the best there is to offer and it has been like that for as long as I can remember. While American metalheads are green with envy practically ever summer festival season, this year was especially jealousy inducing as it was announced that for the first time in history "The Big Four" of the American thrash metal movement of the '

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The fine folks at Metal Insider posted two clips of an almost reunited Kyuss playing songs from the legendary Blues For The Red Sun album this past weekend at France's Hellfest (which boasted one of the most dizzyingly impressive lineups I've ever seen for a European festival....everything from Twisted Sister, Motorhead, Kiss and Alice Cooper to Slayer and Exodus to Infectious Grooves(!) to

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Danzig - Deth Red SabaothDanzig hasn't had any terribly impressive musical output since Danzig 4, but I streamed Deth Red Sabaoth in it's entirety yesterday (and you can do the same here) and was impressed with what I heard. Definitely a return to the feel of the first four albums, so if you are a fan of those, then you should do yourself a favor and check this one out. Clint Eastwood -

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Much is being written about the slumping live music industry as summer concert season begins. I'm sure much more will be written over the course of the summer and even more once it is over and all the numbers are in. The outlook is dismal at best. I experienced first hand how bad it is from a consumer point of view this past Friday when I attended the Scorpions and Cinderella at PNC Arts Center

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Only two releases that I'm particularly interested in this week: The Gaslight Anthem - American SlangI was first turned onto The Gaslight Anthem two years ago right when their second album The '59 Sound was being released. They were described to me as a punk rock version of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and Bruce Springsteen. Without ever having heard a single note, I decided to check them out

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If you go here (or simply hit play on the above embedded video), then you can see an e-card or "trailer" for the upcoming new The Toadies album which is actually a re-recording of an old Toadies album that never saw the light of day. Here is the story: After the success of their debut album 1994's Rubberneck, (and it was most certainly a success as anybody born between at least 1970 and 1980

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Seattle radio station 107.7 The End is now streaming two "official" Arcade Fire singles. "Ready To Start" is the U.S. single and "We Used To Wait" is the UK single. You can hear them here. Both are from their upcoming 8/3 release entitled Suburbs. I am a huge fan of their prior two albums 2004's Funeral and 2007's Neon Bible and am looking forward greatly to this one....even more so after hearing

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Iron Maiden announced yesterday that their 15th studio album, The Final Frontier will be released on August 17th. They also offered up a free download of a track from the album called "El Dorado". You can get the track here or here (the first link is the UK website where you can just right click and save the MP3 and the second link is the US website where you have to sign up for a newsletter to

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Today is a pretty big day for new releases! Let's get into it: Against Me! - White CrossesWhen I first heard Against Me!'s new album White Crosses a few weeks ago, I have to admit that I was pretty underwhelmed. Upon initial listen it felt like a bland continuation of their last album, New Wave; however, upon further review, White Crosses is actually a pretty catchy, hooky and enjoyable album.

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This past Friday, myself and a couple buddies went on a mini road trip of sorts to see one of my favorite bands, the Drive-By Truckers at Tarrytown Music Hall. Tarrytown is often referred to as upstate NY, but that isn't really an accurate description as it is  only one hour north of Manhattan by train (or a little over 30 minutes if you catch the express train). My friends and I caught the

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I first heard Entombed back in 1993 when I got a cassette sampler from Earache Records/Columbia Records (an indie and major label pairing that still makes me scratch my head, but some amazing records were released during that joint venture like Cathedral's Ethereal Mirror, Fudge Tunnel's Creep Diets, Godflesh's Selfless, Carcass' Heartwork and Napalm Death's Fear, Emptiness, Despair). The song "

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I am simply amazed (and delighted) about how many of the bands I loved as a teenager/young adult are still putting out exciting and excellent new music as of late. Slayer, Ratt, Metallica, Megadeth, Dinosaur Jr., U2, Alice In Chains, Scorpions, Testament and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers all come to mind off the top of my head and now it appears the legendary Glenn Danzig might be prepared for

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Two extreme metal bands that I've never really heard before, but am curious about are currently streaming their respective new albums in their entirety: The Funeral Pyre's new album The Vultures At Dawn is being streamed on Lambgoat and Watain's new album Lawless Darkness is being streamed on MetalSucks. The Funeral Pyre are an American melodic blackened death metal band and Watain are

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The Futureheads "The Chaos"I'm a big fan of The Futureheads self-titled debut and sophomore follow up News And Tributes, but I never got around to checking out their third album This Is Not The World. I noticed the band is playing a club about 10 minutes from my house which put them back on my radar and I discovered they are putting out their fourth album, The Chaos. I figure it couldn't hurt to

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The Huffington Post put up a story about a famous Spanish matador who got gored through the throat this past Saturday. You can read the article here. They do warn that the pictures are graphic, but wow, are they ever. They almost look photoshopped because there is absolutely no blood in the photos, but it sure seems like there should be. I mean, the guy has a horn through his throat, tongue and

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Black Tusk "Taste The Sin"I caught Black Tusk at this year's Scion Rock Fest in Columbus, OH and was impressed with what I saw and heard. I actually pre-ordered their album Taste The Sin from their label, Relapse Records and have had it for about 10 days, but haven't had an opportunity to check it out yet. If it is anything like the live set, then I should be happy with it. D.R.I. "Crossover" (

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I've stated in the past that I never actually watch new music videos all the way through anymore, but I've made a few exceptions to that rule recently. One of those exceptions is the video for "This Fucking Job" by Drive-By Truckers from their new album (and front runner for my 2010 album of the year) The Big To-Do. Below is the uncensored version which is the only one I've seen as "censored"

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So, the dumb asses who belong to the idiotic and hateful Westboro Baptist Church otherwise known as the "God Hates Fags" people, have decided to protest the public memorial service for Ronnie James Dio. I was alerted to this by a post on Metalsucks this morning. My initial reaction was outrage, but then the author of the post, Axl Rosenberg, made a good point (or points rather)....ultimately, who

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American metalheads were green with envy when it was announced that thrash's original "Big Four", Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, would be playing together this summer at a couple European festivals. The above is a flyer for the show that is taking place in Sofia, Bulgaria. Obviously Heaven & Hell will no longer be there because of Ronnie James Dio's passing, but can you imagine what

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For anyone who is following, at this point it is pretty obvious that people are still fairly bummed about the passing of Ronnie James Dio. The tributes and testimonials are a bit overwhelming, but speak volumes to not only how influential his music is, but also to what kind of person he was. Check out this blog from Green Day's tour manager who had an experience meeting Dio when he was a teenager

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers released a video for the single "I Should Have Known It" from their forthcoming album Mojo last week. Today, they premiered yet another video, this time for the song "Something Good Coming". In my post about "I Should Have Known It", I said that after having heard three songs from the album, I thought Mojo was going to wind up being one of Petty's best releases.

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Lars Ulrich is a polarizing figure in the world of heavy metal. The Metallica drummer is hated by as many as he is loved, but regardless of what you think of him, there is no denying that he is one of the main architects behind one of, if not the, biggest metal band of all time. That is why it was very cool to see Lars put a letter to Ronnie James Dio up on the Metallica website this past Sunday

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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Curtis hung himself and by doing so, cut short what many believe could have been a very promising career in music. Joy Division's music lives on though and the influence of their two studio albums, Unknown Pleasures and Closer, along with countless compilations can still be heard today in the music of a variety of

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Band Of Horses "Infinite Arms"I first heard Band Of Horses on Sirius back in 2006. Their song "The Funeral" kept coming up on the indie rock station and after hearing it for the 5th or 6th time, I finally looked to see who the band was. I wound up buying their debut Everything All The Time and was instantly hooked. The follow up, Cease To Begin was just as catchy and enjoyable and then the band

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File sharing service LimeWire was dealt a huge blow last Wednesday when a U.S. District judge ruled in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.) in their copyright lawsuit against LimeWire's parent company, Lime Group.  From CNET: "A federal court judge has likely dealt a death blow to LimeWire, one of the most popular and oldest file-sharing systems, according to legal

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Ronnie James Dio passed away this morning at 7:45am (CST I believe) at the age of 67 after a battle with stomach cancer. If you are a fan and lover of hard rock and heavy metal, then you know how important of a figure Dio was in the scene and how adored he was by generations of fans. Whether he was singing for Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath or the band that shared his namesake, Dio, his voice was

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How To Destroy Angels (Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails new project in collaboration with his wife Mariqueen Maandig) have debuted the video for their single "The Space In Between". This is the first video I've actually sat and watched from beginning to end in a while (not counting watching Metal Mania or Totally 80's on VH1 Classic). It is an interesting video and fairly bloody, so if you have a

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Have fun trying to get this song out of your head:

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I loved the first Iron Man movie and was admittedly fairly excited about the sequel. When reviews first started to come out for Iron Man 2, I wasn't surprised to see that they were for the most part fairly ho-hum as sequels rarely live up to the originals and especially in the world of comic book adaptations (The Dark Knight, X-Men 2 and Spiderman 2 being exceptions to the rule in my opinion).

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They really need to perfect the camera technology on Blackberrys. These pictures I get are the definition of atrocious. As I've stated before, I've never the biggest Ratt fan in the world. In my opinion, the albums they released during the height of hair metal popularity were always a handful of hits surrounded by filler. The only exception possibly being their debut Out Of The Cellar which is

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers released the video for "I Should Have Known It" from their forthcoming album Mojo today. This is the third track I've heard from the album (I received two MP3s when I bought tickets to see them in NJ with My Morning Jacket opening this summer) and if the rest of the material is at least as good as the three songs I've heard, then this could very well be one of Tom

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I love me some The Black Keys and their new album Brothers comes out next week. You can stream it in it's entirety on NPR. I gave it a listen this morning and was digging on what I was hearing. Below is the video for first single from the album, "Next Girl". It is a cool song and the video has a dinosaur puppet and cute girls in bikinis in it, so what more could you possibly want?

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As I Lay Dying "The Powerless Rise"I love the first three As I Lay Dying albums, so I pre-ordered their fourth album, The Powerless Rise with no hesitation. Amazon has once again failed to get a release to me by street date, so I haven't had the pleasure of hearing it yet, but by all accounts I've heard it is a logical follow-up to their previous material....in other words, it is another

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Anthrax was one of my favorite bands growing up. Spreading The Disease, Among The Living, State Of Euphoria and Persistence Of Time are all classic metal albums in my humble opinion. One of my funnier memories from high school is going to see Anthrax opening for Iron Maiden right when Persistence Of Time had come out. My friends and I all bought Anthrax baseball hats at the show that had the band

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I had almost completely forgotten about Interpol until I saw a tweet from Pitchfork this morning mentioning that the band was giving away a new song "Lights" from their forthcoming album. You can grab the song here. On first listen it sounded good. Not amazing, but certainly far from bad. I thought their last album Our Love To Admire was incredibly boring, but the second album Antics is an

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CNN posted an article yesterday about the Rev. Fred Phelps that is a pretty interesting read and yesterday evening, ABC's Nightline did a segment about the group he leads and one of his estranged sons. If you aren't familiar with Rev. Phelps, then he is the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church group who is notorious for their "God Hates Fags" message. They first garnered national attention when

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I had seen Anaal Nathrakh's name mentioned in metal magazines and websites a few times in the past couple of years, but never really paid much attention. With a name like that I assumed they were probably some extreme metal band with silly corpse painted faces and lo-fi production that wouldn't appeal much to me. Late last year, Decibel Magazine put out a special issue that listed their Top 100

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I'm not sure if Transport League is still around (it is hard to tell for certain from their Myspace page...it could go either way) or if any of their other albums are good, but 1998's sophomore release Superevil is a highly underrated underground masterpiece that holds up extremely well 12 years later. The easy description of what this album sounds like would be "desert rock Entombed", but the

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Don't have any idea what is going on with the above image? Me either! My friend sent me a link this morning that led to a page with that image and the following description: Starring super-notorious musclebound punk/metaldudes Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins (with a little help from super-notorious soft-rockdudes Hall and Oates) Henry & Glenn Forever is a love story to end all love stories! The

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I've never been and probably never will be the biggest Gwar fan in the world, but I owned and enjoyed both Scumdogs Of The Universe and America Must Be Destroyed on cassette in high school. I picked up a CD version of Scumdogs many years ago, but had largely forgotten about America Must Be Destroyed. Decibel recently did an overview of the history of Gwar and that reminded me how much I liked the

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On my recent trip to San Francisco, I made a point of visiting Amoeba Music. Amoeba is famous for being "The World's Largest Independent Record Store". I haven't been to their Hollywood or Berkeley locations, but the SF store used to be a bowling alley, so you can imagine just how massive their collection of music for sale is. One can quite literally get lost in there for hours digging through

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The Austerity Program "Backsliders And Apostates Will Burn"The Austerity Program's new EP, Backsliders And Apostates Will Burn got a 10 out of 10 review in the last issue of Decibel which immediately piqued my interest in this band who I'd heard OF, but never actually HEARD. I found their previous full length, Black Madonna and other EP, Terra Nova on Amie St. for $1.84 and $00.80 respectively

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Sunday night shows are usually not my favorite thing in the world because it is such a great night to stay in, enjoy a good meal and some good television and in general relax before the impending doom that comes with Monday. That being said, sometimes you have to make an exception when the right band or bands roll through town. For me, Amon Amarth is one of those bands. They most certainly made

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I am still getting used to the fact that technically I am no longer a New York City resident and in fact reside in New Jersey. Hoboken is right across the river from Manhattan, so I like to think that I live in one of Manhattan's boroughs and not in the Garden State. That being said, one advantage of living in Hoboken is that I have easier access to clubs in Northern NJ that host some good if not

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I'm a big Band Of Horses fan. Their first two albums, Everything All The Time and Cease To Begin, are two of my favorite records released in the past 5 years. Their new album Infinite Arms is coming out next month (5/18 to be exact) and they are now offering a track from it for free download. It is called "Factory" and is available here. I have it sitting in my inbox and haven't actually listened

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Yesterday, The PRP put up the following teaser video:They noted that a website called blackdiamondskye.com is associated with the video and speculated that based on the content it looks like Alice In Chains, Deftones and Mastodon will be announcing a tour together this fall. I don't know about you, but that sounds like an incredible tour. I still have never seen AIC live (kicking myself for

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I haven't paid much attention to hip-hop since about '98 with the exception of a few artists here and there (Eminem, Lil' Wayne, Jurrasic 5 and Mike Jones come to mind). I simply cannot get into the current wave of artists representing the genre and have a general disinterest in newer material from the artists I loved in the 80's and 90's. One artist who I have always maintained respect for was

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Last Wednesday when I was in San Francisco, I started to hear rumors that Peter Steele of Type O Negative (and Carnivore) fame had died. I initially rejected it as a stupid internet rumor and even made light of it in a Facebook update later that evening after seeing Faith No More at The Warfield: "can't believe Pete Steele just played "Christian Woman" with Faith No More. Amazing." [Don't even

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I can't pinpoint exactly when in my younger years I became aware of the unofficial rule of never wearing a t-shirt of the band whose concert you are going to see, but I can tell you that I have decided that this rule is a bit antiquated and downright silly. As far as I'm aware, this rule really only applies to the genres of metal, hard rock and punk rock (for my purposes, I'll only be addressing

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Alcest's "Écailles De Lune"Alcest's Écailles De Lune (yes they are French) had a scheduled release date of 4/20/10, but now has a release date of 5/04/10 for the physical product and has been available in MP3 format on Amazon (for only $5.34) since 3/26/10. I have no idea what the confusion is about and quite frankly, it isn't really my concern because I bought the album last week and listened to

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Faith No More was one of my favorite bands when I was younger and are still one of my favorite bands of all time. I got to see them live once in 1992 (opening for Guns N' Roses and Metallica's stadium tour) before they eventually broke up in 1998. Last year they announced that they were reuniting....but only playing the European festival circuit. Rumors swirled that they were planning to hit the

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After two nights in a row of live music with less than stellar fellow audience members (see what I'm talking about here and here), I was a bit worn out by the time The Manchester Orchestra and Biffy Clyro rolled into town, but I sucked it up and headed over to the venue to enjoy some rock n roll.I've been a big fan of Biffy Clyro since I got turned onto to their 2008 album Puzzle. They are most

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I was a little late to the party on Bison b.c.'s Mastodon-style of metal on their 2008 album Quiet Earth, but wound up being a fan when I got around to spending some time with the album. Their new album Dark Ages is rumored to incorporate elements of thrash and punk with stepped up songwriting that moves them out of the mere Mastoclone category, so I will definitely be checking it out. Grab the

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I've extolled the virtues of the rock n roll machine that is the Drive-By Truckers a few times on this blog already, so I feel it unnecessary to explain again what a massive fan I am of theirs. As soon as I heard they were playing Webster Hall earlier this year, I snatched up tickets immediately. An always reliable live band I knew this was going to be a typically good performance from DBT. And

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Band Of Skulls is a British band that I had heard a lot of hype about and then subsequently dismissed said hype. I didn't have any particular reason for doing so, I just felt like ignoring the hype machine. The thing about the hype machine though is that sometimes it is spot on (The Strokes come to mind as a good example of this). So for whatever reason, a few weeks ago I felt the sudden urge to

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Today is the 16th anniversary of when Kurt Cobain's body was discovered in his Seattle home. I will always remember this date partly because I was a huge Nirvana fan, but also largely because his body was discovered on my 19th birthday. I remember my mom called to wish me a happy birthday and she also asked me how I was doing with Cobain's death. She knew I was a big fan and wanted to make sure I

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I read an interesting article on Advertising Age today about how an organization called Corporate Accountability International wants McDonald's to retire their iconic brand mascot Ronald McDonald. According to CAI's website:"But [McDonald's] success has come at the expense of our children’s health. Since the inception of Ronald McDonald, obesity rates have more than tripled among American

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Just a little while ago I got an email from Metal Blade Records regarding As I Lay Dying's upcoming new album The Powerless Rise. When I get newsletter emails from labels and/or bands I usually skim through them looking for the important links to click on to get to the information I'll want to see and don't pay much attention to the little details. From my skimming I surmised that AILD had a new

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Sinead O'Connor (in)famously ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live on October 3, 1992. She was protesting child abuse in the Catholic Church, but most folks didn't seem to get the message and she was met with more disgust and outrage than she was support. The general consensus seemed to be was that she was some crazy musician type trying to stir up controversy and didn't

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From: Gay Sargent helicesj19@relm.comDate: Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:55 PMSubject: HiTo: xxxxxx@xxxxxx.comHi!Have a nice day! The computer on my inquiry in a service of acquaintances has found some structures of the people, with whom I would like to get acquainted. I looked through it slightly and decided to send you the first message because your structure seems more interesting to me. I hope, that

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INITIAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW AGAINST ME! AND DEFTONES ALBUMSI am a huge fan of Against Me! and the Deftones, both of whom have new albums coming out this year that have leaked on the internet ahead of their street dates. Having worked for record labels from 1999-2005, I'm not much for illegally downloading music as I know how much work goes into prepping these releases by both the artists and

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There is only record coming out today that has piqued my interest, but I am particularly excited about it...Black Breath are from Seattle, but sound nothing like the bands that put that city on the musical map back in the '90s. To get an idea of what you are in for, check out the list of bands they cite as influences on their Myspace page: Poison Idea, Celtic Frost, Bathory, Bastard, Deathside,

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Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ is a fun place to see a show. The room is tiny, but as long as you can get yourself a decent place to stand, it is really a great place to see live music (as an added bonus, the restaurant portion of the club serves pretty decent food and if you can manage to get a seat at the bar, it is a good spot to hang). I've seen a handful of amazing performances there including Los

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I've been a huge fan of Seattle's Nevermore since I first heard their 2000 release Dead Heart In A Dead World. That album and Dreaming Neon Black are my two favorite albums by them, but everything they've put out is pretty solid in my opinion. If you've never heard them, then imagine Queensryche going thrash metal and you've got a decent idea of what you are in for.Nevermore's last album, This

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I haven't cared about new music videos since around 2005 when I last worked for a record label and had a vested interest in the quality and success of the videos of the artists we were working with. Since then I've watched probably less than 50 current music videos between MTV2, VH1 and YouTube. I just don't care about the art of the music video anymore. For example, I LOVE Metallica, but haven't

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I've been a Dillinger Escape Plan fan since their Under The Running Board EP came out in 1998. The band has weathered lineup changes, injuries and controversy (at least within metal circles) throughout the course of their career and kept coming back stronger on each new release. While some people griped that their last album Ire Works was too "commercial" sounding, I thought it was their best

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This morning I woke up with a cold trying to settle in and thought it would be a good idea to hit the treadmill and see if I could sweat it out of my system. The jury is still out on whether it is ultimately going to have proved helpful or useless, but I did get a chance to hear two pop punk gems that I haven't heard in a long time.I have an 80GB iPod and a 160GB one. I use the 80GB when I

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Last year, Scion (yes, the car company Scion which is owned by Honda) held their inaugural Scion Rock Fest in Atlanta, GA. The lineup was pretty killer and featured Mastodon, Neurosis, Pig Destroyer, Converge, Baroness, Kylesa, Coalesce, Torche, Skeletonwitch, Wolves In The Throne Room, High On Fire, Salome, Withered and a ton of other bands from the underground/extreme metal scene spread out

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16 years ago last week, Pantera's Far Beyond Driven was released and 16 years ago this week, that album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. This wasn't the first metal album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 during the Soundscan era (that honor belongs to Skid Row's Slave To The Grind), but it is definitely the heaviest and arguably the best metal album to do so.I was already a huge Pantera fan

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Two weeks ago I posted about the new MGMT single "Flash Delirium" from their forthcoming album Congratulations. Over the weekend, the entire album leaked on the internet (as is the way things go these days) and in response the band posted the album in its entirety on their website for streaming with the following statement:"Hey everybody, the album leaked, and we wanted you to be able to hear it

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The above is the artwork for the forthcoming self-titled Stone Temple Pilots album. Is it just me or does that image say "THIS ALBUM IS GOING TO SUCK"......If the artwork hasn't completely scared you off, then you can hear the first single "Between The Lines" at the Rock It Out! Blog. The blogger, Sami Jaroush (who used to be a VJ on Fuse...now there is a real claim to fame) seems to be pretty

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This isn't as funny a comedic showing as Dave Grohl's appearance on SNL, but still fairly amusing:Maybe the coffee jitters were why the Them Crooked Vultures album was so "meh"......

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Thin Lizzy "Still In Love With You"Metallica "Whiskey In The Jar"Mastodon "Emerald"Supersuckers "Cowboy Song"Against Me! "Pints Of Guinness Make You Strong"Dropkick Murphys "Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced"

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I thought Predator and Predator 2 were both great movies. Not cinematic masterpieces by any stretch of the imagination, but they are definitely great for what they are supposed to be....action flicks with cool looking aliens/monsters. I saw one of the two Alien vs. Predator movies that was released and wasn't that impressed, but technically those were not sequels. The upcoming Predators is the

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Justified is a new series premiering tonight on FX. FX, in my opinion, has established a very good track record with original series (The Shield, Sons Of Anarchy, Damages, Rescue Me, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, The Riches and even Nip/Tuck before that series jumped the shark in a major way), so it feels like a no-brainer to give this a shot. If you haven't seen the above trailer or any of

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In addition to all the new albums being released today, we are also getting a very cool album stream and two new tracks to preview from bands with releases coming in the next two months.First, an album stream from the mighty Dillinger Escape Plan whose new album Option Paralysis comes out next week. You can stream the album in its entirety on the band's Myspace page and also pre-order the new

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Normally I go in alphabetical order when listing new releases that I'm interested in, but I'm letting The Whigs cut the line because I am on my third listen today of their excellent new album In The Dark and I've listened to nothing else but because this record is just hitting the spot and I can't get enough. There is not a wasted track on here and practically every one is instantly

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I'm always preaching about how much I hate reality television and telling people that I never watch it. The "reality" though is that I do watch a a few shows. Top Chef and Undercover Boss are two that I am hooked on, but the argument could be made that those are in a dramatically different league than say, The Real World (ie. they aren't trash television). But one show I did watch every single

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MGMT's debut Oracular Spectacular was one of my Top 5 favorite releases of 2008. As much as I wanted to dismiss all the hype surrounding the band due to their association with the Williamsburg hipster scene, there was simply no ignoring how incredibly catchy, hooky and brilliant the album was. They have a new album coming out on April 13th entitled Congratulations and the first single from it, "

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I LOVED Coheed And Cambria's first album, The Second Stage Turbine Blade, but they proceeded to lose me on the two albums that followed, In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 and Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness. By the time their fourth album, No World For Tomorrow rolled around, I had completely lost interest in them. Last year I caught them

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I recently moved into a new apartment and miraculously managed to get more space for less money (I literally tripled my square footage) and still live in a safe, clean and nice neighborhood. I accomplished this by leaving my beloved, but grossly, criminally overpriced Manhattan to live across the river in Hoboken, NJ with my girlfriend. One of the many enjoyable things that has come of moving

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This past Saturday or Night #2 of what had come to be known as "Metal Weekend", focused around the Kreator/Voivod/Nachtmystium/Evile/Lazarus A.D. show at Nokia Theatre. Having already been blown away by Kix the night before, I was a little tired, but rapidly got more energy as showtime approached. Having seen Kreator live before, I knew full well that they would not disappoint and I was also

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Normally I start off my concert reviews with some terrible pictures of the band or bands taken with my Blackberry, but for this one I wanted to share images of the ticket stubs from the last time I saw Kix play live. It was at The Patriot Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA on December 28, 1991. Not only was it a great, great show, but my friend Matt and I were lucky enough to meet

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I'm going to see Kix tonight at The Crazy Donkey out on Long Island. I already explained my fondnesss for Kix a few months ago and considering I haven't seen them play live since 1991, I am very much looking forward to this show. By all accounts I've heard, they still kill it live. Sure, it is a total nostalgia show, but that doesn't mean it can't be good.I've been involved in an email chain with

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There is no denying that Iron Maiden is one of the greatest metal bands of all time. It is a simple, irrefutable fact and any one that tells you otherwise is lying or criminally misinformed. With the exception of a brief hiccup when singer Bruce Dickinson left the band for a period in the '90s, they have been kicking ass for the past 30 years.Iron Maiden announced today that they would be

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Last week I posted about how psyched I was for the new comedy film Cop Out. I stated that a film starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan was practically a guaranteed laugh riot and as I was writing the post I thought to myself "watch this post be a curse and I'll wind up not liking the movie that much". Well, curse or not, the movie unfortunately fell pretty flat. Perhaps I just had too high

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Celtic Frost is considered an incredibly important band in extreme metal history and rightfully so, but I've never been a huge fan. I own almost all of their albums and will listen to them on occasion and find them enjoyable; however, I simply don't get into them as much as other people. Their 1988 album Cold Lake is considered to be a huge professional and commercial failure by most students and

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