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Cover Story: Corrosion Of Conformity ⢠Destination: Heavy Chicago
Chicagoâs newest music venue, Avondale Music Hall, will be hosting its inaugural heavy metal festival Heavy Chicago over the course of two weekends. Headlining the festival on Saturday, October 28, is Chicagoâs beloved doom pioneers Trouble, which will be extra special as this will be the bandâs first hometown show in five years. âWe are […]
Cover Story: Juliana Hatfield ⢠Can’t Get it Out of My Head
It was a great lesson to learn during the pandemic: Sometimes, if youâre open to it, the Universe will reward you with small, subtle signs that everything â despite any outward appearances to the contrary âis alright with the world at that particular moment. Even something as insignificant as a digital clock can prove […]
Cover Story: Butcher Babies ⢠Double Trouble
From just a quick glance at each other while on stage, Butcher Babiesâs duo bombshell vocalistsâHeidi Shepherd and Carla Harveyâknow exactly what each other is thinking⌠and they canât help but to crack up or give each other a sly smile. As best friends performing in a band, Shepherd and Harvey have been slugging it […]
Cover Story: Hozier ⢠Beautiful Language
It might not have swept over him like some Hokusai-impressive wave. But Irish folk-rocker Andrew Hozier-Byrne â who records and performs as simply Hozier â has been caught in the subtle currents of spiritual change since he turned 33 this March. Itâs the fabled Christ age, when your proper career trajectory is clearly revealed to […]
Cover Story: Moby ⢠Liberating Me
If you had the luxury of compiling a wish list of gab-gifted guests for the Perfect Dinner Party, you could do a lot worse than inviting techno-jazz-pop-ambient-symphonic Renaissance man Moby. Personally â without even touching on his four-decade, genre-jumping musical careerâ he has a true wealth of achievements to discuss, including his photography […]
Cover Story: Love and Rockets ⢠Reissues & Reunion
Not that a random Google quest can sum up the alpha/omega significance of any particular subject. But when you punch in âLove and Rockets, bandâ on the search engine, one of the Frequently Asked Questions it churns up is a deceptively simple âIs Love and Rockets Goth?â Itâs a conundrum that still confounds bandleader […]
Cover Story: Betty Who
As Australian-born pop composer Betty Who recalls it, the only things missing from her recent spine-tingling trip into the supernatural were Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, and their trusty old VeeDubs Mystery Machine with which to beat a hasty retreat. Because Zoinks! The three specters she encountered were all too real and not engineered by some local huckster […]
Cover Story: The Church
Sometimes, great art can become something like a snowball as it tumbles downhill after its initial creation, colliding with â then absorbing â many other diverse mediums, expressions, and even creators themselves as it goes. Take, for example, Australian author Jane Harperâs riveting mystery novel from 2016, The Dry. It lures you in from the […]
Cover Story: Elle King
If youâre craving some homespun wisdom in these complicated, hi-tech times, you need look no further than old episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies, a popular CBS TV series that ran from 1962 to 1971 (and 1993 film) and applied old-saw simplicity to complicated modern society. For any Gen X-, Y- or Z-er who might have […]
Cover Story: Smashing Pumpkins: Never Mind the Gatekeepers
Itâs not often that an artist is afforded the privilege of seeing the importance of their career painstakingly delineated in its relative historical importance. You usually have to wait until your screen has faded to afterworld black for that kind of cumulative honor. But at 55, after nearly four decades spent helming Smashing […]
Cover Story: Lamb of God ⢠Revitalize The Soil
Itâs never a good battle strategy to telegraph your punches, swears Lamb of God growler L. Randall Blythe. Several years ago, he foresaw a possible post-EMP, Road Warrior atavistic future when banks have all failed and suggested, matter-of-factly, that when the grid went down, it would just be âme and my guns.â Did the Virginian have […]
Cover Story: The Interrupters ⢠Write Your Own Story
Looks, they say, can be deceiving. Hearing energetic vocalist Aimee Interrupter ricochet through In the Wild â the bracing new fourth album from The Interrupters, the SoCal ska-punk outfit she formed 11 years ago with dub-schooled guitarist Kevin Bivona, now her husband â itâs difficult to picture anything but unbridled joy and optimism fueling it. From […]
Cover Story: Tears For Fears ⢠“Heritage This!”
After many years of touring with a bevy of classic pop hits from their â80s heyday, including âChange,â âPale Shelter,â âShout,â and âSowing the Seeds of Love,â British band Tears for Fears have returned to the road with a powerful new album. With The Tipping Point, co-leaders Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith revisit the heady […]
Cover Story: Halestorm: “Never Give In”
Itâs a question without an answer, a paradox rooted in an ancient Chinese fable about a vendor selling both a spear that was impervious to attack and a corresponding shield that could never be pierced. What happened when you employed them against each other? No mere mortal could ever conjecture, leading to the latter-day rephrasing […]
Cover Story: Midnight Oil ⢠“The Last Dance”
As combustible as ever, Midnight Oil is again doing what theyâve done better than anyone else. At home and abroad, the band is rocking with furious post-punk energy and pop-savvy while agitating for change on social, political, and environmental issues. Like its biggest hit, âBeds are Burning,â the Oilsâ 2020 release The Makarrata Project advocated […]
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