Category: Rock

  • Elisa has been one of my favorite artists for over a decade now. In Italy, she’s a superstar, a veritable household name. In a perfect world she’d be just as popular here in the States, which she really should be when you consider that 95% of her music is in English. To that end, she’s…

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  • I’m not a big prog rock fan, but I just found out that Donnie Vie — Enuff Z’Nuff’s longtime vocalist who is sadly not in the band anymore — is involved with this project. I’m rather impressed by it, too.

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  • Once upon a time — the mid ’90’s to be precise — I interviewed Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue for my hair metal zine, ANT, The Only Cool Magazine That Bites. I asked him what he was listening to lately and he said “Garbage and God Lives Underwater.” I went to Tower Records on the…

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  • A lot of recent albums by the heavy metal bands I grew up with have disappointed me.  The latest Def Leppard album, for example.  I’ve listened to that one at least 15 times and it does nothing for me.  I just can’t get into it.  I think it’s their first terrible album, really.  Getting to…

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  • reviews and photos by Michael McCarthy As I previously mentioned, I was unable to make Boston Calling on Saturday. First, I woke up late at 11 when I’d meant to get up at 9 and take the 11 train into Boston from Lowell. Then I went to the train station to take the 1 train,…

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  • reviews by Michael McCarthy all photos courtesy of Mike Diskin Boston Calling kicked things off on Friday, May 28th, 2016 with three fantastic sets by under-rated singer/songwriter Lisa Hannigan (and Aaron Dessner), the very popular indie artist Sujfan Stevens and the global superstar Sia. Of course, the artists are only part of the festival experience.…

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  • California metalheads Night Demon, whose frontman Jarvis Leatherby we interviewed HERE, have just unleashed a live video featuring their cover of the Golden Earring classic “Radar Love” and it is red hot.

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  • More unexpected than Axl, Slash and Duff reuniting in Guns ‘N’ Roses, the original MISFITS lineup members Glenn Danzig (vocals), Jerry Only (bass) and Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein (guitars) will reunite for first time since 1983 to headline this year’s Riot Fest. Riot Fest will take place in Denver (September 2-4) and Chicago (September 16-18).  No word on whether…

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  • The only Wiki page I could find on Kamin Shirahata was in Finnish and I must admit that I’m not familiar with her previous work, Kuuseki no Circus apparently being her fourth album, following last year’s self-titled album, her third, which was preceded by Kudamono (2014) and Randoserukaba no Yuke (2011). According to Google translate,…

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  • To be honest, I do not think Panic! At The Disco’s latest album, Death Of A Bachelor, is nearly as good as the previous album, Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!, but “Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time” is one of the best songs on the record, if not the very best.…

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  • Vega, Vega, Vega — how do I begin to describe you? You’re a unique one, you, what with your mix of hard rock, classic rock, melodic rock, modern rock and hair metal. It’s as though you’re trying to appeal to every sort of rock audience all at once, to which end it would seem you’re…

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  • As you can hear above, Sarah Jaffe has done an exceptional cover of the Old 97’s “The New Kid.” The track, which sports some great upright bass, is from the benefit album Desperate Times. The project consists of artists such as Ben Kweller, Polyphonic Spree, Hayes Carll, The O’s and others covering Old 97’s tracks…

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  • interview by Michael McCarthy Currently, the lead singer of the famous German heavy metal/melodic rock band Bonfire, David Reece is no stranger to the scene. He first shot to fame in 1989 when he replaced Udo Dirkschneider as the lead singer of another German metal band, Accept. He was only with Accept for one album,…

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  • This is the first Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley collaboration in years. In over a decade, I believe. In any case, they still sound great together. More importantly, Ace can still fucking shred. His long solo here is fantastic. It’s no wonder there’s lots of smoke — the legend is on fire!

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