Rhino Records had the last word on 70’s compilations in 1998 when they unloaded their shag rug adorned classic multi-disc Have A Nice Decade on the box set market.    Not to be outdone (even by themselves!), the brainy record company has now given the same treatment to the decade of...

Some record labels have identities. You don't pick up something on Real World, for example, and expect it to be kill-your-parents death metal, or purchase something on Death Row for that impressionable six-year old niece thinking that it's gonna be in the vein of Jim Brickman. So, too, with Epitaph....

Women are a mystery to most men. I've been kicking around now for a half-century and I understand a little more than a did ten years ago. One of the things I understand is that sometimes it's better just to say to hell with it and not bother.I accordingly have...

The last thing the members of Boxcar Racer would probably want to be compared to is Blink 182. However, since all music for “Boxcar Racer” was written by Thomas Delonge and Travis Barker, the similarities to Blink could not be ignored. Often referred to by the media as a ‘side project,’...

Amy Grant's career trajectory over the past 20 years has been extremely interesting. She originally became something of a household name as a best-selling contemporary Christian artist, even crossing over into the marketplace, if not the radio, to what is erroneously called a "mainstream" audience. She took the plunge into...

You just never know. Ash, virtually unknown on this side of the pond, was about ready to get written off in 1999, with the release of NU-CLEAR SOUNDS, leaving the band members washed-up at age 22. Last year, however, they came roaring, and I do mean roaring, back with FREE...

With their second full length album release, Arizona based brothers Bret and Bart Helm enter the arena with a continuing theme of Gothic flavored music and heavy duty lyrics described as " . . . snapshots of characters confronting the images and experiences that fuel their passage from child to...

Cleveland, Ohio is known for breaking new ground in music, and Biastfear is a perfect example of this with their nu metal flavor. With the release of their second album, "All Angels Scream", Biastfear may create yet another new Cleveland sound. Self described as “A combination of heaviness and harmonies,...

The last thing the members of Boxcar Racer would probably want to be compared to is Blink 182. However, since all music for “Boxcar Racer” was written by Thomas Delonge and Travis Barker, the similarities to Blink could not be ignored. Often referred to by the media as a ‘side project,’...

Took me about ten minutes, maybe another track or two to convince myself that sticking to the press release and calling them a cross between Danzig and Manowar is just too preposterous… can you imagine?  But the more you listen… They’re a precursory Punk and classic era Metal hybrid, the...