Posted by Zach Fehl on March 23, 2018
New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week brings new music from The Sword and more! If you would like to check out the last New & Noteworthy, you can do so here, if you want to […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on December 8, 2016
Many have struggled to understand why certain artists and bands gets nominated in the rock and metal categories at the Grammy Awards. There have been many surprises over the years with the awards and the ceremony, including previous winners like Led Zeppelin’s live album Celebration Day consisting of 40 year-old songs, CBS cutting off Nine Inch Nails […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 6, 2016
People have been bitching about the Grammy awards since a metal category was first awarded in 1989 and Metallica lost out to Jethro Tull. They’ve continued to be relatively tone deaf since, such as two years ago when “best metal peformance” went to Tenacious D covering a Dio song over Motorhead, Anthrax, Mastodon and Slipknot. […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on July 14, 2015
[youtube]https://youtu.be/q9IBvmwxSDU[/youtube] When recapping the year in video games, 2015 will be known as the year guitar-based rhythm games came back. With both the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises making their return to next gen systems with enough time for nostalgia to set in for the millions of people that were turned onto them nearly a decade […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 31, 2015
[youtube]https://youtu.be/cYYGdcLbFkw[/youtube] Yesterday, one of the more insane press conferences in recent memory took place as Jay Z unveiled his new streaming service, Tidal. What was insane about it? Well, 15 of some of the biggest names in the music industry stood on stage together , and three of them (Daft Punk and Deadmau5), didn’t even […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on June 17, 2014
While streaming music services continue to roll out almost monthly, many in the industry have been waiting for YouTube to unveil their offering. Now there’s a report that says that the new service will block labels and bands that don’t sign on to and agree with the terms of their new paid service. This has […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on February 19, 2014
Meshuggah said they were planning to play North American festivals to celebrate its 25th anniversary. And now we know that one of those festivals will include Bonnaroo. Yet that’s just the icing on the cake, since also playing the four day music festival in Manchester, TN will be Mastodon and Deafheaven. The 2014 lineup was […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on July 26, 2012
While we were at Metallica’s inaugural Orion Music & More festival earlier this summer, the band said several times while performing that this was indeed an annual event. Following the festival, the band said that they’d be making an announcement over the next few weeks as to whether they would do it again, and it […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on April 11, 2012
This morning, the lineup for this year’s Lollapalooza was officially announced. And though most of the lineup had been leaked earlier this week, the announcement confirms that Black Sabbath will indeed be performing at Lollapalooza. Also confirmed for the three day festival in Chicago are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys, Jack White, […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on October 26, 2011
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfqktBLDjPU[/youtube] To celebrate the 20th anniversary of U2’s Achtung Baby, Q Magazine has assembled some big names to record covers of each song off the album. The tribute album includes Jack White, Patti Smith, The Killers, Depeche Mode, and others. However, the name that probably sticks out on the track listing in Nine Inch Nails, […]
