‘Tis the season to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and a whole lot of rockin’ birthdays. As you’re decorating the tree, wrapping presents and building gingerbread houses, you can see if you share a birthday with these rockers celebrating their birthdays this month.Tons of rock stars are turning a year older, and a year wiser this month from Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder to Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and also Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx. Some rockers have more candles on…
In 1987, MTV released the iconic Headbangers Ball during the height of the heavy metal movement. It quickly became the premier destination for all things heavy, even helping lead grunge into the mainstream in the early ‘90s.When Nirvana appeared on the show in 1991, Kurt Cobain famously wore a yellow ballgown. “It’s Headbangers Ball, so I thought I’d wear a gown,” Cobain said, before pointing to Krist Novoselic and adding, “He wouldn’t wear his tux. He…
There are stories sometimes so rewarding and full that they can’t be completely told in just one song. Luckily a number of acts in music history have revisited characters and tales of a multiple songs. One such band is up-and-comers The Black Moods, who turned heads last year with their single “Sunshine” and are building up to their new album with “She Gets Out,” a song that carries over a narrative.The band tells us, “‘She…
At some point this holiday season, you’re going to want to piss off your parents and extended family. It’s the nature of the holidays. Blasting a song or two from the ol’ bedroom on the ol’ boombox you grew up with is just the right passive-aggressive touch that says, “if you’re going to make me feel 15 again, then I’ll act like it!”Here are 10 songs that are sure to tell your family how you…
For over a decade, thrash metal fans have had a definitive – if debatable – list of the top four bands in the field: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax. (There has been some recent speculation, though, about expanding the group to include Exodus, so we’ll have to wait and see.)But what about the rest of the genre? After all, metal has become immeasurably varied and vital over the last 50-plus years, with many other superb…