by Bram Teitelman | Jan 28, 2015 | Controversy, News
Republican Wisconsin governor and presumed 2016 Presidential candidate Scott Walker is down with the kids. At least that what he’s wanted them to think as he walked out to the Dropkick Murphys’ “Shipping Up To Boston,” a song popularized in the...
by Seth Werkheiser | Jan 22, 2015 | Controversy, News
Robb Flynn of Machine Head has written a new “Generals Journal” on the band’s Facebook page, this time focusing on the movie Selma, racism, and hot-button topics like police brutality and war. And then comes a Phil Labonte call-out, with Flynn having...
by Seth Werkheiser | Jan 21, 2015 | Controversy, News
All That Remains vocalist Phil Labonte is in the headlines again, and not so shockingly it’s for something other than his music. According to The Pulse Of Radio, Labonte spoke of his use of the word “f*ggot” in a recent interview with Revolver...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 14, 2015 | Controversy, News
21 years ago, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain committed suicide with a shotgun, leaving behind a suicide note. It took over 20 years, but an Etsy seller has screen printed Cobain’s suicide note on a tank top and was selling them as a tank top. Etsy halted the sale...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 26, 2014 | Controversy, News, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/ksoYR7dVyfM[/youtube] Any Pantera fan knows that the band took their name from the Italian sports car the DeTomaso Pantera, and it’s Italian for “panther.” However, it seems that Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 19, 2014 | Controversy, News
Yesterday, the initial lineup for Asbury Park’s Skate and Surf Festival was revealed, and there were a few metal and hardcore acts mixed in alongside the emo and hardcore, Attila among them. It hasn’t taken long for there to be backlash about their...