Gun Drummer Nate Wilkinson has gone viral for shooting semi-automatic rifles along to songs such as Lamb of God’s “Laid to Rest” and Slipknot’s “Psychosocial,” but…
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Interview: Brian Fallon Is Not a Rock Star
And his new album Local Honey is all the better for it. Brian Fallon, the former frontman of Gaslight Anthem, has stripped away all the glowing…
Dwid Hellion on the Passing of Genesis P-Orridge, new Integrity and COVID-19
Last week, the classic R.E.M. track “It’s the End of the World (As We Know It)” shoved its way back into the singles charts. Considering the…
Musical Tragicomedy: Nick Thune and Damien Jurado at Longboat Hall
It’s the end of January, and Longboat Hall is silent. The Toronto basement venue is echoey and enveloping as comedian Nick Thune unassumingly emerges from the…
Song Premiere + Q&A: Rotting Out Look Trauma in the Face on Ronin
Hardcore is often birthed by conflict. It comes from a world of pain and frustration, and is used as a vessel to release pent-up aggression. L.A.…
Big Cheese on Channeling Motorhead and Sick of it All, Growing up UKHC
UK’s Big Cheese was formed in the middle ’10s out of the same scene that brought to light bands like Violent Reaction, Chubby and the Gang,…
Sammy Siegler on Kiss, Billy Cobham and the Parallels Between Cro-Mags and Coltrane
Very few artists listen exclusively to aggressive music, so in this recurring series we ask a musician about a band that they like that is outside…
Mundy’s Bay on Their Genre-Defying Debut ‘Lonesome Valley’
It’s difficult to ascribe a genre to Mundy’s Bay. But the more you scratch your head trying to pin them down as shoegaze, or pop, or…
Mike Watt and Friends Look Back on 25 years of ‘Ball-Hog or Tugboat?’
After Mike Watt played his first final show with fIREHOSE on February 12, 1994 at the Warner Grand Theatre in his beloved San Pedro, California, the…