gloomchen

There’s this little metal band named Atreyu. And for years, they’ve been interchangeable with any other US hardcore/metal hybrid. Clean vocals, some shrieking/growl vocals, a whole lot of one chord jamming, blah blah blah. I never gave them the time of day. It didn’t help that they chose their name from The Neverending Story… probably [...]

me: i seem to slip into rant-mode a lot less frequently than i used to IM buddy: ah well…it has a time and place, right? :P me: hell yeah. although i should get more rant practice in… maybe i should solicit suggestions “RANT ABOUT CORN” OKAY FUCK THAT CORN PUT IT BACK ON THE COB [...]

Saturday night was the Twin Cities Electropunk showcase at Club Underground. I realized as I was watching the show how much I missed music snarking reviewing. I had so much to say about each artist. As for the compilation itself (which can be snagged at the TC Electropunk website), it’s rather strong — much better [...]

First of all – Dream Theater is releasing a best-of 2-disc set. The title? Greatest Hit (& 21 Other Cool Songs). They crack me up. And that’s going to make it a LOT easier when people approach me with, “I bought the new album, can you recommend what other album to buy first?” Second of [...]

In case you haven’t heard, Britney Spears has been hauled off to a psych unit. THANK GOODNESS. Seriously… I love watching celebrity trainwrecks — really, I do — but it’s been far too long now that it’s been ridiculously obvious that something is very, very wrong in the world of Britney. She’s passed drug tests [...]