Blue Oyster Cult

Ghost B.C. Brings Together Heavy Metal and Dildos (Finally)

It's about time someone finally brought heavy metal and sex toys -- a match made in heaven -- together in one package. And Swedish heavy metallers Ghost (also known as Ghost B.C.) was just the band to do it. Known for their eccentric on-stage presence -- five of the members (known as "Nameless Ghou ... More >>

Rush Has Spent Four Decades Doing Its Own Thing

Witch Mountain, Yucca Tap Room, 11/12/12

Witch Mountain @ Yucca Tap Room|11/12/12I've always felt troubled by the psychological exercise of word association, that each response would reveal some flawed abnormality about my character. If you were to say doom metal in such an exercise, my response would most likely be "relaxation" or "easy ... More >>

Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Shawn M. Crahan Launch Production Company; Taylor Explains

There's always been a connection between horror flicks and heavy metal, so it comes as sort of a surprise that it's taken Corey Taylor and Shawn M. Crahan of Slipknot this long to start a Living Breathing Films, a film and television production company aimed at creating "psychological dramas." Th ... More >>

Fowl Play

Concerts to Catch This Weekend

End your Labor Day weekend with Blue Oyster Cult on Monday.​Oh, Labor Day weekend. Don't know about you guys, but I'm ready for it. There's plenty of stuff going on this weekend, and we've tried to cover the gamut. Tonight you can catch Sade at US Airwaves and Gucci Mane at Celebrity Theatre, tomo ... More >>

Blue Oyster Cult, & Foghat @ Celebrity Theatre

Devo, Weezer, Menomena, and More in This Week's Issue

James SierraSynthesizing machine Corey Busboom holds a homemade musical contraption​This week's music feature is on Corey Busboom, a local who makes quirky instruments and one-of-a-kind synthesizers. He never thought he'd get a call from Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo. Mothersbaugh was enamored with Bu ... More >>

Give Your Old Instrument to Ear Candy and See Blue Oyster Cult and Foghat For Free

​Let's face facts: You're never going to play that old saxophone again.Sure, you think about it every few months, but your skills are too far gone and your heart's not totally in it. Honestly, it's more or less mocking you from the bottom of closet.Why not give it to a kid who still has a chance o ... More >>

Incoming: Social Distortion, Hot Hot Heat, Ra Ra Riot, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Nickelback

A picture of Canadian rock band Nickelback​I remember it like it was yesterday: it was the summer of 2002 and I was in super-humid Milwaukee for Major League Baseball's All-Star Game. We were in the parking lot of Miller Park, enjoying the pre-game festivities, eating and drinking all of the ... More >>

Yo La Tengo at The Marquee

​It's been a pretty solid year to be a Yo La Tengo fan.  The Hoboken-based indie-rock institution (25 years and running) didn't just release one new album this year, they released two. Their latest, Popular Songs finds the band exploring their entire stylistic breadth, indulging in the or ... More >>

Shiny Toy Guns "Burning For You" MP3 Download

www.shinytoyguns.comShiny Toy Guns​Leave it to Shiny Toy Guns to transform a Blue Oyster Cult classic track into an electro pop flavor of the week. This new track follows STG's cover of "Major Tom" by Peter Schilling a few months back. Both covers were recorded by the band for a current Lincoln Ca ... More >>

The Beautiful Bodies

Touch Me
(self-released)

“Rock the Vine” at Kokopelli Winery Pays Homage to ‘70s Without the Hustle

Almost Famous

It's never been easier to start your own (fake) band

3 Inches of Blood

Fire Up the Blades
(Roadrunner Records)

Prayer of The Mullet

Make it quick and painless -- but not short

Murder City Devils

Thelema (Sub Pop)

Stalk-Forrest Group, Blue Öyster Cult

St.Ceilia: The Elektra Recordings (Rhino Handmade),Blue Öyster Cult Tranny and Mutation Secret Treaties Agents of Fortune (Columbia/Legacy), Curse of the Hidden Mirror (CMC International)

Hit Them Again

Aussie rockers Radio Birdman beat the boots -- and strike a chord with the punk 'n' roll youth today -- with a new authorized collection from Sub Pop

Murder City Devils

In Name and Blood (Sub Pop)

Viva Sandinista!

Is the Clash still the only band that matters?

The Secret Worlds of Big Jake

Recordings

Grin, Reaper

Farewell Songs