Posted by Zenae Zukowski on February 22, 2022
Mark Lanegan, former Screaming Trees vocalist and member of Queens of the Stone Age, has passed away. He was 57-years-old. His death was confirmed by a statement on his Twitter account made by his publicist. There are no details on his cause of death at this time. The statement reads: “Our beloved friend […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 16, 2014
In 1995, a grunge supergroup of sorts, Mad Season, released their only album, Above. Formed by Alice in Chains vocalist Layne Staley, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin, the band also featured bassist John Baker Saunders from Walkabouts. With both Staley and Saunders dead as a result of drug overdoses (in […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on February 28, 2014
[youtube]http://youtu.be/KKuXKuQ0b88[/youtube] It’s our belief that every song in the history of of music can be made better by adding the chugging riff of Down’s “Bury Me In Smoke” to it. The song that closes Nola is as sludgy as an oil spill in a New Orleans swamp. So how to improve on the song, which the […]
Posted by Tiffany Bentley on July 16, 2013
Walking Papers, a band consisting of Screaming Trees/Mad Season drummer Barrett Martin, Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver and Jeff Angell and Benjamin Anderson of Seattle’s The Missionary Position, will release a self-titled album August 6 on Loud and Proud Records. Two tracks, “Leave Me in the Dark” and “The Butcher” have been released via USA Today and Consequence of Sound, respectively.
Posted by Zach Shaw on March 4, 2013
In April, an expanded reissue of the 1995 album Above by Mad Season (which featured members of Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees) will be released. But now it looks like previously unreleased demos might be rerecorded by a new group featuring guitarist Mike McCready, drummer Barrett Martin and Guns N’ Roses bassist […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 7, 2011
OK, ok, we know that former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan isn’t particularly metal, but his familiar baritone has graced nearly every Queens of the Stone Age album, and his songs are as heavy as any metal song in subject matter. Now the singer is poised to release his first album in seven years, Blues […]
