“What I’ve always loved about heavy metal is that it’s rebel music.”
-Buzz Osborne,
The Melvins
http://www.avclub.com/article/melvins-buzz-osborne-picks-songs-by-bands-that-wer-200741
I first saw High on Fire at the Soundwave festival in 2010. Continue reading
“The best part of a writer is on paper. The other part is usually nonsense.”
–Hollywood.
I found a link on Facebook to Neil Patrick Harris doing a song-and-dance number to open the Tony Awards in New York. It was vaunted as the ‘best awards ceremony opener ever’. Conspicuously, it also featured a brief cameo from Iron Mike himself. Continue reading
Some years ago, I was hunting around on iTunes and discovered, to my considerable astonishment, there was no review for The Rollins Band’s magnum opus, The End of Silence. Continue reading
“My whole life, I’ve always wanted to be un-hecklable, you know? …I remember staring into GBH [record] covers, Exploited covers, Black Flag covers and just thinking, ‘Go for it, man…’ You know, getting that feeling in your stomach when you leave a first date… I’m just looking for that. I hope I can give that to somebody, somewhere.”
– Josh Homme, NME interview, Paris Continue reading
Fan-art from some obscure Russian website – you get the idea.
I have a love/hate relationship with Shakespeare’s tragic heroes. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 