Music scene fam, this is a not so pleasant article, so this is your trigger warning. Just like every single one of you, I love local music. I love going out to festivals and coffee house shows to scope out the little guys fighting the good fight, watching them grow, and supporting them the best…
Woodstock ’99 was fucking insane. The rampant commercialism was just one aspect that didn’t resemble the original. The lineup? Absolutely stacked. Rage Against The Machine. Metallica. Korn. Red Hot Chili Peppers. And a little band called Limp Bizkit, whose popularity after their performance at Woodstock catapulted them into selling millions of copies of Significant Other,…
A quarter of a century since their inception, California’s Korn have put out 12 (!!!) full-length albums, helped put bands like Limp Bizkit on the map, and more or less defined the genre that would eventually become nu-metal. Though vocalist Jonathan Davis doesn’t necessarily consider the band nu-metal, the fact remains that they directly inspired…
When Gene Simmons made a statement a few years back that “rock is finally dead”, it likely had something to do with a seriously declining state of album sales, as well as rock artists and songs being dominated by seemingly throwaway pop and hip-hop tracks. While that may be true, rock and metal are at…
