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Led Zeppelin weren't always innovators, but were certainly leaders in the creation of loud stadium rock. Did anyone do it as good?
A powerful nostalgia hits whenever I hear the ruckus my young neighbors are making in the basement with their band.
Get ready to open up a pit, because The Bear actor and actual chef Matty Matheson’s band Pig Pen released its first single and it kicks all kinds of ass. It’s always questionable when someone outside ...
The Baltimore group toiled in the underground until its 2021 LP blew up. With a new album, “Never Enough,” it’s testing the ...
God damn, god damn, god damn—as Beyoncé would say—there’s a lotta stellar music being made in Portland right now! Longtime Rip City psych-outs, Grails drop their new album May 16 while up-and-coming ...
Sonia Weber tries to find the right words, coincidentally speaking for the masses on Alien Boy’s third album, You Wanna Fade?
The veteran engineer gives us a rare behind-the-scenes insight into mixing sound for one the most well-established live shows ...
Now that Soundgarden is going in the Rock Hall, guitarist Kim Thayil lists off six acts that he'd like to see eventually get ...
Portland rockers Alien Boy are a few days away from releasing You Wanna Fade?, the new LP mixed and mastered by Deafheaven/Jeff Rosenstock producer Jack Shirley. We’ve already posted the early singles ...
“I’m already having palpitations,” Butler reveals. “In fact, I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed everything went wrong on ...
Max Cavalera has hailed heavy metal as "the most positive thing in the world". As a founder of metal heroes Sepultura and also the brains behind acts such as Soulfly, Killer Be Killed, Cavalera ...
A list of hair metal bands who haven't reunited in 20 years or more, but should! Are your favorites on the list?