Photo Credit: Lindsey Byrnes The fifth full-length album by electronic music producer and DJ Nicholas Daniel Miller – known professionally as Illenium – opens with “Starfall,” an all-synth electronic instrumental. This is hardly the curtain-raiser a listener might expect if they choose to look ahead to the sixteen-song track listing, to see that upcoming cuts… Read more
Photo Credit: Travis Shinn Chicago’s Disturbed is already one of the most successful heavy metal bands to debut (on record) in the twenty-first century, boasting among other accomplishments four consecutive studio albums going to number one in the U.S. since Believe in 2002 (even Immortalized topped the charts in 2015, despite the band taking an… Read more
You can’t judge a book by the cover, except when you can. Look at these guys: Photo Credit: Zack Smith You KNOW what these guys sound like before you hear a note. If you’ve spent any time in New Orleans, and I do not mean Mardi Gras Bourbon Street, you know that it is a… Read more
Photo Credit: Collages via Billboard Most people will tell you that the only success that translates financially is “success.” In music, certainly, it’s thought to be almost entirely mathematical: the more records an artist has sold, the more “successful” they are (of course, in recent decades the number of downloads and streams would also have… Read more
It’s widely debated if – or at least to what degree – rap is rock ‘n’ roll. In New York City, where hip-hop originated, a few rock bands were among the first to recognize the significance of rap, as shown by the Tom Tom Club’s single “Wordy Rappinghood” and of course Blondie’s number one smash… Read more
Ozzfest at the Tweeter Center Camden, New Jersey 3 Inches of Blood Ankla Behemoth Black Tide Chthonic Devil Driver Hatebreed In This Moment Lamb of God Lordi Nile Static-X The Showdown Photography by: Steve Trager
Korn ‘Family Values’ Tour 2006 with Stone Sour at the Tweeter Center Camden, New Jersey Stone Sour Korn Photography by: Steve Trager
Vans Warped Tour 2006 at the Tweeter Center Camden, New Jersey Bullet for My Valentine Helmet Joan Jett Photography by: Steve Trager
DragonForce ‘Inhuman Rampage’ Tour 2006 at the Trocadero Theatre Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Photography by: Steve Trager
Photo Credit: MTV VMAs This year’s MTV Video Music Awards (which aired live on September 12th) tell us pretty much all we need to know about how the state of rock ‘n’ roll is 2021. Actually, we can even go all the way back to 1997: The award category that had once been “Best Heavy… Read more