by Raizel Liebler Regardless of whether most people know or like the music of Mötley Crüe, they know of Tommy Lee and his amazing spinning…
by Keidra Chaney Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the band Mastodon sold a Thanksgiving-themed shirt on their website. Here’s the shirt: I gasped aloud when I…
-By Raizel Liebler If you are a fan, you should read Laina Dawes‘ What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in…
Heavy music was dealt a huge blow this week, with the shuttering of independent label Hydra Head Records, a casualty of the recording industry and…
Last week I (Keidra) participated in Heavy Metal 101, part of a monthly series organized by Chicago creative collectives Homeroom and You, Me Them, Everybody….
There’s been much bloggage about the AP-photo based Shepard Fairey Obama Hope poster, but one issue I haven’t seen discussed in the midst of discussions…
I was pretty psyched when I learned that music journalist Ian Christe had started his own book publishing company focused on heavy metal, Bazillion Points….
One of my favorite metal bands, The Dillinger Escape Plan, recently left their record label, Relapse, after their contract expired. According to the following interview…
I have a long history with Metallica, as they were essentially my introduction to the world of metal, along with other young Gen-X metal kids,…
Here’s a review of a great documentary that’s not getting nearly enough exposure. “Music is colorblind” is one of those clichéd but usually sincere sentiments…