by Elise Yablon | May 20, 2020 | News
Despite a host of issues leading up to it, the first socially-distanced concert in the US took place in Arkansas on Monday (18). Bishop Gunn frontman Travis McCready took the stage at Temple Live in Fort Smith, AR for an intimate acoustic set, playing to...
by Elise Yablon | May 15, 2020 | News
Last week, it was announced that Fort Smith, Arkansas venue TempleLive would be holding their first post-lockdown concert. Now, that show is being shut down by the state. The show, an intimate acoustic set from Bishop Gunn frontman Travis McCready, was supposed...
by Elise Yablon | May 6, 2020 | News
The state of Arkansas is attempting to get back to some semblance of “life-as-we-knew-it” by becoming the second state to start allowing for “socially distanced” concerts to take place. Governor Asa Hutchinson announced Monday that the state will be reopening...
by Metal Insider | Sep 12, 2014 | Dissident Aggression, New Music
You can always tell when a sub-genre of metal is growing in popularity. The pretenders and bandwagon riders start to come out in full force. We saw it with thrash, death metal, black metal, etc. You name it there have been instances when a genre’s rise in popularity...
by Metal Insider | Jun 14, 2013 | Dissident Aggression
A couple weeks back we we waxed poetic in this column about how commercial rock stations have continuously dropped the ball over the last twenty or so years and ignored real, live rock n’ roll bands while peddling what essentially amounts to musical eunuchs. ...