by Alix Vallecillo | Jul 5, 2016 | Music Biz, News
The music industry has been morphing significantly in the past 20 years since the adoption of the internet as a medium of consumption. Every aspect of the business has changed in many ways, from the artists, labels, venues and many more facilitators to make music a...
by Metal Insider | Mar 13, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
In the darkest recesses of the Earth’s oceans there potentially lurk creatures as yet unknown to humankind. One could imagine some seismic beast slowly creeping along the seabed some 20,000 feet below the nearest human, waiting to rise up and claim what was...
by Metal Insider | May 16, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
Some music is meant to simply clobber. It’s built with a battering ram aesthetic and rumbles through headphones like some prehistoric, ancient beast, unaware of the true destruction it wields. One fine example of music that simply cold-cocks you from note one...
by Metal Insider | Oct 24, 2012 | CMJ Music Marathon, Events, Live Music, Snap Your Fingers Snap Your Deck
In case you didn’t catch us hyping it over the past month or so, Prong returned to New York City after five years and played a CMJ show on a friggin’ boat! It happened aboard the Queen of Hearts as a Rocks Off! Concert Cruise last Friday, and despite some...
by Metal Insider | Dec 27, 2011 | Interviews
In 1988, New York City-based speedsters Riot released their definitive mission statement, the tempo-pushing cult classic Thundersteel, with then-new vocalist Tony Moore at the front. Moore and Riot followed that up with 1990’s The Privilege of Power before parting...