Warchest is gorgeous. A weird catch-all, leaning heavily on live, plus demos, studio rarities, interview snippets, a disorganized symphony of destruction.
A thick, layered, ambitious record. Blackie and Borden alone own this decadent space between power and hair metal and strip mall junk while California burns.
A fans-only title. An endearing bunch of characters: Some have absurd cleavage, others mechanical noses, they throw underwear at each other and act silly.
It’s fun to fire your weapons. Call of Duty 4 stands neck and neck with BioShock and Halo 3 as one of the best FPS releases in an impossibly cutthroat year.
On Halloween night, 1986, Midwest’s hammering punk legends Dead Boys showed up to collect their beer money. In the ’80s, we called this “good bootleg quality.”
Jason McMaster is best known for his rip roarin’ Dangerous Toys franchise, but Broken Teeth have a bulging catalogue of boozy brawlin’ AC/DC-meets-Krokus metal.
If you’ve ever wondered why Marvel never created a comic book wherein a meteor shot forth from Elektra’s crotch, now is the time to rectify that inequity.
Anthemic emo hard rock, the kind you’ll find on the Warped Tour and Taste of Chaos tour, plus on the radio between My Chemical Romance and Linkin Park.