It’s easy to do a faithful cover of a classic song (I’m looking at you, Weezer) but to take an original, break it down to its basic melody and the build it back up into a whole new construct? That takes talent and balls… but most of all, balls. That’s
Category: Interviews
Enjoy a 2006 Throwback Interview with Flyleaf’s Lacey Sturm.
Discovering new music in the early 2000s was a bit more organic than it is in 2025. The internet was still in its infancy, and bands relied more on grassroots and word-of-mouth efforts to introduce their music to new fans. Many bands first introduction to new fans was seeing those
Austin-based neo-soul artist LEW APOLLO wages war against his personal demons and unearths a stunning album.
Grief is a subject at the forefront of nearly every elevated horror film (i.e. Hereditary, The Babadook, Pet Sematary), so many albums (Mount Eerie’s A Crow Looked at Me, Eels’ Electro Shock Blues, Arcade Fire’s Funeral), and so many books (A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, The Year of Magical
SKYND: Livesteam From A Dark Place 12/19/2022
The time is nearly here… Another livestream from a Dark Place. Attendance is by invitation only. Is it a Christmas miracle? A Q&A? A virtual Meet & Greet? Earlier this year, SKYND invited fans to watch the first and second episodes on NETFLIX’s “Conversations With a Killer: John Wayne Gacy”
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Northlane
If you had to sum up Northlane in a word, it would be ‘resilient’. In their 12-year career, the four-piece have weathered the kind of storms that would have seen most other bands bow out of the game without a second thought. Yet, through every bout of turbulence, Northlane emerges
Artist Spotlight: Gary Numan
May, 1979. It’s an ordinary Thursday evening, which means it’s time for Top of the Pops. Amidst a zeitgeist of punk and disco, the show suddenly appears to be interrupted by a transmission from the future. A luminous synth riff echoes out, a beat drives on and upsteps an otherworldly
Artist Spotlight: SEETHER
Since forming in Pretoria, South Africa in 1999, SEETHER has amassed a global fan base that has grown organically with the quartet’s sense of purpose and commitment spreading outwards, offering their fans around the world camaraderie, comfort and a sense of personal power. While others of their ilk faded away,
Pandemic Artist Spotlight: Love and Death
Love and Death began with the similar raw, authentic emotional honesty that drove singer/guitarist Brian “Head” Welch to multi-platinum, Grammy Award winning heights as a co-founder of genre trailblazers Korn. Forged as an outlet for recovery and redemption in a season of change, the formation of Love and Death resulted
Pandemic Artist Spotlight: Unfinished Thought
I was first drawn to Unfinished Thought around 2003 after a friend suggested the band’s debut album. Several of the band’s tracks were even played in between sets during Evanescence’s 2003 Nintendo Fusion tour. Thanks to the magic of the internet, I was able to reach out to the band
Pandemic Interview: Cristian Machado
The summer of 2002 was a time that really opened my eyes (and ears) to an incredible range of new music, mostly because of OzzFest. Y’all remember OzzFest, right? Like so many other, OzzFest introduced me to some of the most incredible bands, bands that I would have likely never