Nostalgia kills. One minute, you’re dealing with society. The next, you’re remembering CDs existed. Compact disks. L-O-L. Those circular, scratchable and ultimately fine artifacts were the…
Posts published by “Matthew Sigur”
500 of the Albums of All Time
Not to soil Rolling Stone’s moment in the sun, but the magazine’s list of the 500 best albums of all-time made me think of other albums.…
Review: Every Single Drum Solo in Mastodon’s ‘Fallen Torches’
Mastodon is a badass band. Formed 20 years ago in Atlanta, Georgia, the heavy metal band named after the extinct mammoth with huge tusks has written…
15 Best Fictional Rock Bands
Music movies are rarely great. Such features are often strung together from behind the scenes drama, leaving the tunes to hover over montages. Outside of biopics,…
Need to lob a sick burn at John Dolmayan? Use these System of a Down lyrics
The toxicity of System of a Down is at an all-time high. Tension is rising as drummer John Dolmayan and singer Serj Tankian are sparring over…
Touching the Weird: Queens of the Stone Age’s ‘Rated R’ at 20
In 2000, Queens of the Stone Age pumped weirdness back into rock music on their second album and major label debut, Rated R. While the band’s…
15 Bands That Couldn’t Follow Up Breakthrough Debuts
The 15 groups that stunned, then underwhelmed It’s a tale as old as the music industry: A band comes out of nowhere with a blazing debut…
Rick Maguire of Pile on the Search for Self-Awareness and Touring Solo
For Rick Maguire, work always comes first, and that work is writing, creating and playing music with Pile. Over the past decade, work has been good…
Album Review: Have a Nice Life — Sea of Worry
Have a Nice Life isn’t in love with the modern world, and that’s a relief. On its third album, Sea of Worry, the Connecticut post-punk duo…