Interview: Strapping Young Lad
Canada’s definitive metal band, Strapping Young Lad, is one of the leading extreme metal acts currently at work. Ever since their inception back in 1994, the Lad has been forging their own brand of heaviness, blending elements of thrash, industrial, and death metal elements with technical structures, ambient textures, and epic melodies.
Interview: Lamb of God
Lamb of God out-pitted Slayer.
Those that fly the horns regularly might not believe such a statement, but at a recent stop at the Sports Arena in San Diego, CA, Randy Blythe and company did something most metal fans wouldn’t think possible. They created a pit larger and got more reaction out of the packed arena floor than one of the most respected metal bands in history.
Review: TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
The guys in TV on the Radio reside within another plane of existence. Their world is one where past and present collide. They pull all of the varying energies comprising New York City’s history into a vortex they then retranslate and reinterpret. They are Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.
Interview: Two Gallants
The Irish writer James Joyce published The Dubliners, a collection of satirical stories portraying the Irish middle classes in Dublin in the early 1900s. In “Two Gallants,” one of the stories within, we meet two con men, Lenehan and Corley. The story addresses a theme common in Joyce’s work: cultural and social paralysis. The two con men end their journey right where they it began; they are trapped in a vicious cycle of repetition.