It’s hard to describe the sound of the Black Veil Brides. There’s something amazingly metal about them that isn’t just the glam metal aesthetic of the band’s earlier years. The thrashing guitars, heavy bass, and darker vocal sound of lead…
15 Terrible Christmas Songs
Now that the holiday season has officially started, this means that holiday music officially gets kicked in gear. Radio stations, shopping malls, and television commercials start playing “Deck the Halls,” “Jingle Bells,” and other music of that sort. But for…
Album Review: Darius Rucker – “When Was the Last Time”
Darius Rucker is an old hand at country music. He’s been at the game for a while and, as such, knows how to make a good country album. When Was the Last Time is that very good country album: Rucker knows…
Interview: Natalie Alexander
Natalie Alexander is a singer-songwriter from Sonoma County, California who is breaking into the country music scene and already causing quite the stir. She recently released her self-titled EP and is only getting started in her career. I got to…
AFI Movie Review – Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
After last year’s comprehensive documentary about O.J. Simpson, the time is now to look at the threshold between being a person of color and a celebrity of color. No person exemplifies those battling dichotomies better than Rat Packer Sammy Davis,…
Interview: Sarah Gargano
It’s seriously exciting to see young up-and-comers find their unique voice, break into the music industry and continue to slay the game and that is what the nineteen-year-old singer/songwriter from New York – Sarah Gargano – is doing. I cannot…
Album Review: Bootsy Collins – “World Wide Funk”
World Wide Funk is funk, plain and simple – and not just because it seems the album uses the word ‘funk’ over a hundred times in the lyrics. The album is beautifully retro, hitting up all the classic tenets of…