*HM Magazine is celebrating its 25th Anniversary! The new issue features Impending Doom on the cover and has stories on Norma Jean, Haste the Day, Stryper, Altar Boys, Tourniquet, Tooth & Nail Records’ Brandon Ebel and more. The “So-and-So Says” interview is with Tom Araya of Slayer and will definitely raise some eyebrows. Fittingly, the [...]
*Soundgarden reunited for a surprise hometown show, playing Seattle’s famed Showbox at the Market to a sold-out crowd of 1200 lucky fans. Check out one review/setlist. *KLANK (Circle of Dust, Argyle Park) has returned with NUMB…Reborn. You can buy it online exclusively at the FIXTstore. *Black Thorn is the new release from Chicago-based Celtic punk [...]
Big news for GRAMMATRAIN fans – the reunited group has just released a new single. The song is entitled “The Last Sound,” and is an anthem for the Seattle Sounders FC! “The Last Sound” will premiere March 25th at Qwest Field when the Sounders host the Philadelphia Union in their regular season home opener. You [...]
Time to update my list of Bands I Have Seen Live. I am not listing every single band I’ve ever seen. There are plenty of opening acts I was forced to sit through to get to the main event. Festivals are similar… lots of bands I “saw” but don’t care about having seen. It’s basically [...]
Aught-Nine ended up being a high watermark year for me in terms of music. 2008 was a pretty weak one and both 2007 and 2006 had some good stuff but not really… a lot. 2009? Where do I even begin? There are no less than four records competing in my heart and head for “album [...]
Since it was released for Rock Band last week, my friend James and I were discussing just how damn great the song “My Name is Jonas” by Weezer is. Possibly the best opening track on a debut album EVAH? In that spirit, here is a totally non-definitive list of best opening tracks on albums (that [...]
GRAMMATRAIN with FAIR and THE FORGOTTEN DREAM March 26, 2009 El Corazones Seattle, Washington I saw grammatrain live. Let me repeat that. I SAW GRAMMATRAIN LIVE! No, really. This is kind of a big deal. grammatrain was one of the first christian rock bands I really got into. I was a big fan of Nirvana [...]
Kneeling Between Shields EP Grammatrain Independent Released May 2009 5 songs / 21:33 www.grammatrain.net Best described as a modern update of Grammatrain’s original grunge/hard rock sound, Kneeling Between Shields is relevant without being trendy, classic without being dated. It was evident ten years ago on Lonely House and Flying that the boys in Grammatrain were [...]
