40 Below Summer emerged in 1998 from the local circuit of the New Jersey underground. They released an indie album entitled Sideshow Freaks which soon found its way to the hands of No Name Management, (Slipknot, Fear Factory), and a management deal soon followed. After coast to...

By now it’s obvious Alanis Morissette’s creations work on two levels; one to speak on behalf of tortured souls, the other to purge her own mind of any inner demons. On her third “reborn” release (Canadian prefabricated pop aside), Morissette continues to build a platform to...

When I was young, if I knew taking a trip through the dark was gonna be this exciting I never would've spent all those nights sleeping with the light on! This is where the Black Metal style truly crosses into another dimension. While employing plenty...

Let's state from the git-go that this wasn't quit what I expected. The name Attila associated with a rock project conjures up images of take-no-prisoners guitar chords pounding at the gates of your ears, threatening to tear 'em down and leave 'em bleeding. That isn't what...

If you caught the IMAX motion picture presentation of Calle 54 (director Fernando Trueba’s biopic of various Latin Jazz musicians performing together), you know that the 83-year old Valdes practically stole the show from musicians one-third his age. His energy and spirit are completely infectious.  Revered in Cuba during the...

It seemed for a time that Boston's New Edition was primed to be the Temptations for the 90's. But then they seemed to think that their street laced Pop soul was probably on the way out (and lets not forget that they were not racking up the...

The war ravaged battalions of the Death crusade strike hard with yet another round… and another, and another of aggressive metallic firepower on their latest "Honour, Valour, Pride" release, the follow up to 99's "The Mercenary," and sixth overall. Similar in scope to stepping on a ...

Anymore, you can almost sense the sonics of a Brothers' mix just a few beats into their break. It's nearly always delivered with a spectacular, over-the-top boom and bombast, all the while generating their generous flow of house-lite textures. Alas, they've been in the big...

When I die I wanna come back as Chris Isaak. He's got his own television show (not to mention a quick turn in Silence of the Lambs), he hasn't aged a day in almost 20 years, and his music is cooler than I'll ever be. You can...

There's a whole generation of kids out there who can't remember a time before hip-hop. By the time they were born, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, and the rest of the first rap stars were already old-school, and the once startling images and sounds of the genre were...