A few months ago, we learned the ridiculously badass news that Dave Grohl would, once again, play drums on a forthcoming Queens Of The Stone Age album. And Grohl has apparently found a fun way to…   Read Story »

An unholy trinity of Opeth, Mastodon and Ghost descended upon the Gibson Amphitheater for an evening of progressive and theatrical metal. Opeth are touring behind their latest album Heritage while…   Read Story »

Clichés be damned -- this really was a good year for metal. I had a harder time organizing a Top 10 in 2010 than ever before. Ditto the Top 20. It was such a good year that I went overboard and…   Read Story »

This is not the longtime (and awesome) Japanese psych band, Ghost. It's the newish (and awesome) Swedish band, Ghost. Instead of the tree-climbing acid folk and Kraut leanings of the elder crew, we…   Read Story »

It wasn't so long ago I posted about Galaxie 500 reissuing their original three albums and, in the process, brought up Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang's Damon & Naomi, Magic Hour, and the renaissance…   Read Story »