Photo Credit: Third Eye Blind via Facebook The stakes for the seventh album of San Francisco quintet Third Eye Blind are pretty low; it’s been over two decades since the band scored their last major commercial hit and unlike fellow ’90s stars Alanis Morissette, Brandy, and Liz Phair, they haven’t built up anticipation by waiting… Read more
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Angels & Airwaves – ‘Lifeforms’ Album Review
Photo Credit: Jonathan Weiner In 2017, Angels & Airwaves lead vocalist (and former Blink-182 member) Tom DeLonge released three videos to the New York Times purporting to show UFOs. Three years later, the longtime conspiracy theorist musician was vindicated when the Pentagon declassified these same three videos; confirming the existence of these “unexplained aerial phenomena.”… Read more
MMM Thoughts: How is the State of Rock ‘N’ Roll in 2021?
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
2000s Throwback Gallery: Bon Jovi ‘Have a Nice Day’ World Tour 2005
Bon Jovi ‘Have a Nice Day’ World Tour 2005 at the Wachovia Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Photography by: Steve Trager
OneRepublic – ‘Human’ Album Review
Photo Credit: Dennis Leupold Over the last decade, Ryan Tedder has quietly become one of the most successful songwriters and producers of our generation; co-producing Adele’s blockbuster 21 and 25 albums, co-writing epics like Beyonce’s “Halo” and Leona Lewis’s “Bleeding Love” and fronting the band OneRepublic; responsible for hits like “Apologize” and “Counting Stars.” The band’s first new album… Read more
Luke Hemmings – ‘When Facing the Things We Turn Away From’ Album Review
Photo Credit: Scottie Cameron Brought on by the stillness of the world, 5 Seconds of Summer’s lead vocalist Luke Hemmings found himself reflecting on his life over the past few years. In this forced stillness Hemmings found himself confronting demons and thoughts that he had pushed away while his life consisted of writing music, recording,… Read more
2000s Throwback Gallery: Vans Warped Tour 2005
Vans Warped Tour 2005 at the Tweeter Center Camden, New Jersey Atreyu Avenged Sevenfold Dropkick Murphys Fall Out Boy My Chemical Romance Story of the Year The Starting Line Photography by: Steve Trager
Switchfoot – ‘Interrobang’ Album Review
Photo Credit: Erik Frost An interrobang is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a punctuation mark designed for use especially at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical question” – in layman’s terms, it’s the combination of an exclamation point and a question mark. An interrobang, in many ways, feels like the collective response to the events of… Read more
MMM Top Ten: 10 Bands That We Wish Would Get Back Together
Top 10 Bands That We Wish Would Get Back Together When a popular band announces they’re breaking up on a Monday, rumors that they’re going to stage a reunion usually begin by that Friday (maybe even late Thursday). Indeed, countless bands have split up only to have successful reunions years or even decades later, albeit… Read more
The Killers – ‘Pressure Machine’ Album Review
Photo Credit: Danny Clinch In late 2019, The Killers announced their follow-up to 2017’s Wonderful Wonderful was on its way. That album, Imploding The Mirage was The Killer’s best full-length work to date, a daring leap of sonic ambition that also happened to be hugely enjoyable. Brandon Flowers and company, however, had no way of… Read more