Sweat Lodge – Tokens For Hell – Review
Sweat Lodge Tokens For Hell (Brutal Panda) By Mike Delano Writing about music is often focused on the future. Finding the next big band, and finding them before anyone else, seems like the central goal of many writers, and reviews of young bands usually spend as much...
Comeback Kid – Outsider – Review
Comeback Kid Outsider (Nuclear Blast) By Mike Delano Manitoba hardcore punkers Comeback Kid sound razor sharp on Outsider, their first album since 2014’s Die Knowing and debut for Nuclear Blast. It’s more diverse than Die Knowing, which was satisfyingly relentless...
Killing Joke – Pylon – Review
Killing Joke Pylon (Spinefarm) By Mike Delano It’s a tricky thing if you’re a band that’s been around for as long as Killing Joke. Is it a blessing because you’re that much older and wiser than everyone else, and have decades of experience and...
Intended Play 2012 – Review
Intended Play 2012 (Matador Records) by Scott Deckman In January, Matador/True Panther Sounds released Intended Play 2012, a sampler LP of new and what the labels consider classic songs from various artists for the outrageous sum of $1.98. Well as if $1.98...
LaLa – Review
Lala.com By Mike Delano Used to be that if you wanted to make a half Basement Jaxx, half Cannibal Corpse playlist, you had to pay to make that freakish vision a reality. Either you would subscribe to a music streaming service like Rhapsody or Yahoo! Music for a...
The Stone Roses – Made of Stone – Review
The Stone Roses Made of Stone A Shane Meadows Film (MVD) By Mike Delano Emerging from the phenomenal Madchester musical movement of the late ’80s and early ’90s and having sparked the flame that would become the world-consuming Britpop fascination, the...
No Regrets – Ace Frehley – Review
No Regrets: A Rock ‘N’ Roll Memoir by Ace Frehley (Gallery Books/VH1 Classic) by Scott Deckman Wanna rock all night, and party every day? Ace Frehley, he of the Spaceman makeup and Cherry Sunburst Les Paul did, and now he tells his life story in No...
Mental Shrapnel: Vegetarian Porn – Column
Mental Shrapnel Lollipop has a long history of making fun of stupid people, stupid trends, over-hyped movies, TV shows, bands, and anything else we see. There’s no end to the things you can make fun of if you can stop giggling long enough to scribble a one-liner...
Ryan Ferguson – Only Trying to Help – Interview
Ryan Ferguson Only Trying to Help (Better Looking) An interview with Ryan Ferguson By Tim Den Hi, Ryan? Yup, is this Tim? Yes it is. You are calling exactly at 2 pm. Very punctual! I like that. Are you a Virgo? (Surprised) Yeah! Uh… is it that obvious? (laughs)...
Scrapbook Max – Review
Scrapbook Max! (Indigo Rose for PC) by Mike Delano You might be under the crazy impression that scrapbooks are musty, memory-filled physical objects to be enjoyed now and decades from now, when your grandkids hop up on your lap for visions of the days when dad had...