For the past two years, My Chemical Romance has traveled the globe, taking their fans on a journey revisiting their hit album “The Black Parade.” Unlike most anniversary tours, though, the Long Live Tour has becomes something not only nostalgic, but brand new. The band has pulled out all the Continue Reading
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REVIEW: The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Howls From a Holographic Heart
Few bands can really embody having a particular sound while still remaining unexpected and rather ambiguous with what folks try to anticipate from them next. For Number Twelve, over the last 25 years of on and off again activity, have proven themselves to be one of those bands. Some call Continue Reading
Knocked Loose // Chicago, IL // 9.30.26
Knocked Loose is a band that has played arenas and stadiums around the world, but that doesn’t mean they started there. This is a band straight out of Kentucky who planted their roots playing basement shows and bars and tiny rooms. The only differences from then to now? The amount Continue Reading
Review: Movements – Happier Now
Movements has always been an honest band. Honest about who they are, transparent about their struggles with mental health, and open about the content of every song they’ve ever written. Their latest release Happier Now is no exception. It’s rare for a band to leave such a lasting impression Continue Reading
Review: Chat Pile – Who Loves the Sun
Since heavy and alternative music incepted, certain rock and metal subgenres dominate particular decades more than others The thrash and punk waves of the 80’s, the hardcore and death metal waves of the 90s, Gothenburg influenced metalcore of the 00’s. The 2020’s have been shaping up to see that noise Continue Reading
Review: Mastodon – Marrow Deep
Much of the metal world was sitting on a certain uneasiness over the last 18 months or so when it came to Mastodon; first with the departure of founding member and songwriter Brent Hinds, then with his unfortunate passing solidifying the impossibility of any future contributions to the progressive sludge Continue Reading
Hatebreed – Sacramento, CA – 08.24.2026
The first iteration of the Summer of Slaughter tour took place in summer of 2025. While this time around may have been a callback, the energy at the Ace of Spades in Sacramento felt far from stale. With an eight band bill, it’s safe to say that the night Continue Reading
A Story that Carries On: My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade Revived On Tour in Detroit
Photo credit: Bryce Hall / Jesse DeFlorio The guys in My Chemical Romance are no strangers to theater – their albums contain storylines and concepts filled with depth and nuance, inviting fan theories and development that other artists can only dream of inspiring. So when they announced the Long Live Continue Reading
Review – God’s Hate – Won’t Be Disgraced
In a year full of relatively tame records, God’s Hate has dropped a three song rager that outshines most full albums released in the last eight months. Every aspect that fans love about God’s Hate feels amplified and wrapped up in just under thirteen minutes. This is them taking ownership Continue Reading
Review: Jungle – Sunshine
When Jungle released Volcano in August of 2023, it very quickly became the ideal album to close out the summer. To this day, three years after its debut, Volcano is the first album I choose to play when the weather heats up. With Sunshine’s release coming three years later almost Continue Reading
Sum 41 – All Killer, No Filler: 25 Years Later
Few bands are more synonymous with the Vans Warped Tour years than Canada’s Sum 41, with their metal-flaired flavor of pop punk that only ended their run in 2025. 25 years later, looking back on their platinum debut record All Killer, No Filler we revisit a time and place in Continue Reading
Review: No Pressure – NP Style
After four years, a handful of singles, and nothing but anticipation from fans, No Pressure released their sophomore album NP Style on July 24th, 2026. Aptly named, the album delivers exactly what fans would both expect and most importantly, want after all of this time. NP Style is fast paced Continue Reading