For better or worse, there are a few artists that were seemingly incessantly assaulting my earholes as a young burgeoning record store retail warrior during the early aughts in Boston. If you were a regular customer around that time in the Back Bay area, chances are you’d be hearing breakthrough [...]
We’ll admit to being skeptical of any cover of “Running Up That Hill” after Placebo slayed with their take almost 20 years ago and, frankly, more than a little tired of hearing anything about that Kate Bush song as the whole Stranger Things hubbub did nothing for us. And then [...]
You didn’t think New Hampshire’s Temptress would let you say goodbye to 2022 without dropping a slick jam or two or three, didja? Even better, Temptress is closing out the year with A WHOLE NEW RECORD! Inhabiting that crawlspace where the Electro excellence of both Rammstein and Static X lie [...]
Sure there’s some Clutch in the DNA of Edinburgh’s own Robot Death Monkey but when hearing the sheer riffage involved on their latest EP, Intergalactic Party Powder, the vibes lean much more in the realm of early Mastodon covering Kyuss with some good ole Boston Roadsaw thrown in for good [...]
Maybe in 2030 we’ll stop doing these lists featuring a number corresponding to the given year and make it a little easier for us but for now we’re still finding it hard to whittle down the artists and albums that kicked ass for us so if it ain’t broke then [...]
Catchy and killer across five memorable tracks of modern Alt-Rawk bliss, The Cursed EP from Boston’s bikethrasher sounds more like an album from an established favorite than an early entry into a blossoming discography. And that’s just one of the reasons why you should tune in to bikethrasher now!
