You could almost imagine the epitaph on Green Day's headstone from the moment Reprise got into the whole contract-fulfilling kiss-of-death releases that beset Green Day just this side of the ...

I broke a fingernail tearing the shrink wrap off Playing the Angel - that's how excited I was to get into it. After the confusion caused by Exciter, and the ...

The first time I heard "Welcome to the Black Parade," the first single off of My Chemical Romance's new record, The Black Parade, I was certainly, for lack of eloquence, ...

Zeit·geist n. German. The spirit of the time; the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation. The Smashing Pumpkins’ comeback album threatens to set itself up as a ...

In all likelihood you’re fully aware of the Smashing Pumpkins history and 90’s legacy; if you somehow don’t, I recommend Wikipedia. But in short, this is the first album in ...

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness changed the way I listened to music. Siamese Dream continues to do so. Machina is one of the best records I've ever heard. The ...

Scream and Light Up the Sky has been a long long time coming. Three years have gone by since their last release. This album also has been in my hands ...

It's really hard to place Mastodon into one genre. Yes, they are mainly a metal band but what sub-genre? Sludge metal? Progressive metal? Groove metal? You'd be right and wrong ...

Water. Earth. Russian monarchy? While Mastodon’s previous albums Leviathan and Blood Mountain deal with two of the four elements, their newest, Crack the Skye, deals with another element albeit in ...

Green Day are at a point in their careers where they can basically do anything. Almost all of their fans from the Gilman Street days are gone and they seem ...

I’m going to keep this brief, because Billie Joe Armstrong and company couldn’t – 21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s first record clocking in at over an hour in length, ...

I was a bit of a latecomer to the Mastodon party. I hadn't discovered them until Crack the Skye, and from that, you can imagine my surprise going back through ...

Thank god it's not another concept album.That's perhaps untrue, though: maybe this is just a concept album broken over three separate records: ¡Uno! is the first in a trilogy (wittily ...