by Brian McKinny
Fight or Flight is the fifth release from Hoobastank, and it is their first album since leaving Universal Records to take the independent label route, hiring Gavin Brown to produce their new album and take them into …
by Brian McKinny
Step Daddy is a new-age, funk, thrash, progressive, avant-garde metal band from Seattle, Washington. I’m not going to go much deeper into their background than that, because frankly, I don’t see this band, or their genre, whatever …
September 23, 2012
Sacramento, CA
by Teri Doty
The long awaited Aftershock Festival had finally arrived. Took a 5 hour haul to Sacramento to witness some of the greatest bands around. But first…let me make a quick comment about the …
by Brian McKinny
Cab Ride Home is a thrash/speed metal band from Manassas, Virginia that has, like most bands do, evolved from their original incarnation into something slightly different from where they started. The current incarnation of Cab Ride Home …
by Brian McKinny
First, off, let me say that I really like these guys. They’ve been flying just under the radar of other similarly styled bands like Chevelle and Shinedown, but not really getting the credit or recognition that …
by Brian McKinny
Alanis Morissette has released her eighth American album called “Havoc and Bright Lights” on new label “Collective Sound”, distributed by Sony’s RED Distribution. You know, sometimes life isn’t fair, but it sure can be ironic (tongue planted …
by Brian McKinny
P.O.D., a band from San Diego, California could have gone the way of Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, bands of the same genre and era, but P.O.D. consciously took a different path. They wrote songs with lyrics …
by Brian McKinny
‘The Gypsy Sons’ are a soulful, bluesy, country rock quartet from Northern Virginia. “Walking on the Water” is their sixth album, and they already have two hits with ‘Sweet Soul Sunshine” and “Right Kind Of Lovin’”, both …
by Brian McKinny
‘My Son the Bum’ is no ordinary rock band from Long Island, NY. They seem to be an amalgamation of some seriously talented studio musicians who have gotten together via long-distance collaboration, and have put together some …
