• Mad Season: 'Above' To understand why the deluxe reissue of Mad Season’s Above seems like such a big deal, you have to flash back to the days when grunge was a... | 4/8/2013
• Gary Clark Jr. gives a little Austin love to SA's music scene The birth of a new music festival is always cause for some excitement, especially when the king of music festivals chooses San Antonio to start a new musical extravaganza... | 3/20/2013
• Jimi Hendrix: 'People, Hell, and Angels ' (EP) One of the great unanswered questions in rock history: What direction would Jimi Hendrix's music have taken if he hadn't died young? 'People, Hell and Angels'... | 3/20/2013
• Melina Narezo: 'Melina' The debut album from this local singer-songwriter stands out from a swamp of similar releases on a number of levels... | 3/13/2013
• Single of the Week: David Bowie "Where Are We Now?" Bowie's recent single — a shocking birthday present, considering he was all but retired from public life — is a vivid and rich return to his glory days of... | 1/16/2013
• Phil Anselmo's Down leads metal feast at Backstage It shouldn’t be this easy to jump back in the saddle after a five-year hiatus from recording. But then, Down isn’t just any supergroup. The New Orleans-based metal... | 1/9/2013
• 10 great moments when music met alcohol It's easy to pick the top booze-fueled moment in music history: all of them (there's a reason live shows take place in bars instead of libraries). But... | 12/19/2012
• Sarah McLachlan: Find Your Voice This free holiday single is meant to raise awareness of the Canadian music school Sarah McLachlan runs for disadvantaged kids, a number of whom... | 12/12/2012
• AC/DC: 'Live at River Plate' The release of this double-disc set of ferocious recordings from dates in Buenos Aires a few years back should be a treat for rock fans. It finds... | 12/5/2012
• Soundgarden - King Animal (Universal Republic) Back together, and now back in the studio | 12/5/2012
• Fur - Image on the Reverse (Self-release) What’s next for post-punk pros? Listen. | 12/5/2012
• Eric Burdon & the Greenhornes - Eric Burdon & the Greenhornes (Readymade) House of the rising collaboration | 12/5/2012
• Eric Burdon & The Greenhornes: 'Eric Burdon & The Greenhornes EP' If the entirety of this brief teaming of blues-rock legend Eric Burdon (the Animals, War) and blooze-revivalist the Greenhornes (which features two... | 11/28/2012
• Soundgarden: 'King Animal' The first album of new material by these grunge heavyweights since reuniting in 2010 was hotly anticipated by fans and just as dreaded by listeners... | 11/20/2012
• The Heroine: So far, so good The new Heroine album (and first original one with EMG) will come out next year. But you don't have to wait — besides catching them live... | 11/20/2012
• Aerosmith: 'Music From Another Dimension' Bands that have been around as long as Aerosmith rarely have the talent, inspiration, and dedication to remain creatively relevant after 30-plus years in... | 11/14/2012
• Killer Kill: 'Act Your Age' EP Killer Kill's sound is hard to put a pin in — and its unpredictability is a good thing. Its strengths are in a shifty, dynamic sound, especially when the rhythm section of John Guest and Mason Macías play around with tricky time signatures (as on the openin | 11/7/2012
• Between the Buried and Me hotter (and better) than ever After 10 years as one of the hardest-working bands in heavy music, North Carolina's Between the Buried and Me is finally starting to get its due. | 10/31/2012
• The Rolling Stones: "Doom and Gloom" (from 'GRRR!', out Nov. 13) The Stones' post-millennial output hasn't been much to write home about, but "Doom and Gloom" is a solid single with a snarling, memorable Keith Richards guitar... | 10/25/2012
• Kiss: 'Monster' The new Kiss album is out and it's exactly what fans were expecting. Building on the throwback format they established three years ago with Sonic Boom, the... | 10/17/2012
• Van Morrison: 'Born to Sing: No Plan B' Van Morrison's best release in ages is bound to invite an unfair comparison. No, it's not as good as Dylan's Tempest, but it's surprisingly agile and lively. | 10/10/2012
• Michael Jackson: 'Bad (25th Anniversary Edition)' Any successful '80s artist with the good sense to stay alive in the 21st century is bound to get the deluxe reissue treatment. That's what makes the 25th... | 9/26/2012
• Strung Out: SoCal punk heroes revisit two key albums Punk's not dead, but it's getting frightfully close to retirement age. SoCal hardcore legends Strung Out weren't even part of the first wave of... | 9/5/2012
• Strung Out again: SoCal punk for your earholes Strung Out's second album – and the first of two they'll be playing in their entirety on their current tour – is definitely their finest work, and pretty... | 9/5/2012
• Alvin Lee: 'Still on the Road to Freedom' Forty years after Ten Years After made a name for itself at Woodstock, guitarist Alvin Lee returns with a sequel to his career-making 1973 solo album. While his chops are as... | 9/5/2012
• Yes, Inferno: 'I Hate Myself and I Want to Die' After a brief hiatus and a lineup change, local post-everything instrumentalists Yes, Inferno are back with an impressive new release. Recorded as a live set... | 8/29/2012
• Mötley Crüe: Never too old to rock 'n' roll You're only as old as the bands you feel, and when one of those bands wrote a song called "Dr. Feelgood," well, that's a clue, isn't it? There's almost an infinite number... | 8/1/2012
• Sohns: 'Ripe/Rot' EP Gloomy sounds of struggle and organ washes open up this EP from Sohns, a quartet of local racket-raisers, but it jumps right into some rewarding noise on... | 7/25/2012
• POC: 'Rise Above' The debut album by 21-year-old Mexican POC is a pure throwback. From her damaged blonde-hair-and-leather look to the album’s glammed-up shouters (like the fuck-you-dad anthem... | 7/18/2012
• Baroness: 'Yellow & Green' The release of Yellow & Green made a lot of people nervous.  For one thing, Baroness had already put out two terrific records, and the odds of lightning... | 7/18/2012
• Kiss: "Hell or Hallelujah" (Single) With their first new album in three years set to pop in October, Kiss is getting fans in the mood with "Hell or Hallelujah," the leadoff single from Monster. | 7/11/2012
• The Iron Maidens' double-X chromosome doppelgangers rock in the shadow of greatness It's got to be strange, being in a one-band cover group. No matter how much you master your craft, no matter how daring your stage presence or how intense your... | 7/11/2012
• Ernie Kovacs: 'Percy Dovetonsils... Thpeaks' Ernie Kovacs didn't care for the Golden Age of recorded comedy that peaked in the early '60s — or so he said in an interview, just before hawking his own Percy Dovetonsils LP. Trouble is, the album didn't seem to actually exist until collector Ben Model un | 7/3/2012
• Ernie Kovacs: 'Ernie Kovacs: The ABC Specials' Accompanying the treasure trove that is the 2011 six-disc Ernie Kovacs Collection, Shout Factory has just released a single-disc anthology of TV specials the legendary comedian... | 7/3/2012
• TV/comedy innovator Ernie Kovacs introduced to a new generation Ernie Kovacs died in a car crash when he was only 42 years old. This tragic loss robbed television of arguably its one authentic genius during the early days of the... | 7/3/2012
• Tool's Maynard James Keenan wants you to eat his Puscifer When Puscifer rolls through town in support of last year's Conditions of My Parole, the band's second album, they'll be playing some of Maynard James Keenan's best and... | 6/27/2012
• Hacienda: 'Shakedown' The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach's influence is clear on Hacienda's third album; his production hallmarks stand out, as when he pushes the drums to the forefront and... | 6/20/2012
• Back and forth with the Front Bottoms Hailing from the shores of Bergen County, the Front Bottoms project the pure pop sounds of North Jersey, with a sunny saturation of humor and a catchy... | 6/6/2012
• Single of the Week: Pujol "Providence" Pujol "Providence" | 6/6/2012
• Rather than a supergroup, Kill Devil Hill is the real deal The word "supergroup" gets applied so readily and so reflexively, especially in the world of hard rock and heavy metal, that it's pretty easy to distrust instinctively. | 5/16/2012
• The Grasshopper Lies Heavy/God Townes: 'In Love' (Split 7”) Record Store Day was made for releases like this: The Grasshopper Lies Heavy (the name is a reference to Philip K. Dick’s classic novel The Man In The High Castle... | 4/18/2012
• Immortal Guardian: 'Super Metal EP' Power metal and prog metal have more in common than the fact that Immortal Guardian flips effortlessly between the two; they're also high-proficiency genres... | 4/4/2012
• 2012 Latin Alternative/Rock Artist/Band: Piñata Protest Self-taught acordeonista Álvaro del Norte's norteño-soaked squeezebox dancing drunkenly over Matt Cazares' hardcore guitar: that's the simple essence of Piñata Protest's sound. | 3/28/2012
• 2012 Best Heavy Metal Band: Immortal Guardian From chili to conjunto, Texas' best cultural exports are usually the result of taking a handful of bold ingredients and whirling them together until something delicious drops out. | 3/28/2012
• 2012 Best Keyboardist: Gabriel Guardiola (Immortal Guardian) You'd have to be a pretty hot player to draw attention away from Gabriel Guardiola's hyper-drive guitar work. So it's no surprise that his only competition is Immortal Guardian's keyboard player... | 3/28/2012
• 2012 Best Bassist: Foster Minor (Immortal Guardian) Being a bass player can be a thankless task in any band, but in heavy metal it can be an absolute burden. (Don't believe us? Ask Jason Newsted.) | 3/28/2012

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