2020 Grammy Award-Winner for Best Rap Album! Tyler, the Creator s fifth full-length is about Tyler, the producer, Tyler, the singer, and Tyler, the rapper, in that order. A meticulously produced project, his ever-experimental approach births a beautiful, messy mix of R&B, funk, jazz, and rap. The attention to detail is on a different level: the…
UFO are widely regarded as one of the UK s best hard rock acts and this year (their final one) are celebrating their 50th year in existence with their final world tour. Phenomenon was the bands debut for Chrysalis and was a departure from the bands previous Space Rock sound to a Heavier rock style….
2018 release. Ulthar create something uniquely arcane within the Bay Area metal underground. The trio comes together on their debut full length Cosmovore to unleash a feral urgency for dizzying Absu like Black Metal with a Death Metal band s bludgeoning violence. Thematically heavy on weird, supernatural horror and a bizarre Rudimentary Peni surrealism, Ulthar…
2024 release. Only God Was Above Us was inspired and haunted by 20th Century New York City and recorded in such far-flung locales as Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, and Manhattan. The album was co-produced by VW s Ezra Koenig and regular collaborator Ariel Rechtshaid, mixed by Dave Fridmann, and mastered by Emily Lazar. The album…
Four years and one pandemic on from Orificial Purge, Vastum, the longest running band on the 20 Buck Spin roster, offers up it s fifth bludgeoning document of psychic malaise and lost faith with Inward To Gethsemane. As before, the abject disgust unsparingly captured in Vastum s unique approach continues to drape the music with…
This reissue of this classic Velvet Underground recording features digital remastering and enhanced packaging. Tracks include Sunday Morning, I m Waiting for the Man, Femme Fatale, Venus in Furs, All Tomorrow s Parties, Heroin and much more.
2021 release. Since their founding in 2015, Swedish post-punk band Viagra Boys have made a name for themselves burning up stages around the world. There s a little Iggy Pop spit and seethe, a David Yow drunken stumble, and a bite of Nick Cave s haunted bark. Add a dash of motorik groove, a pinch…
VIO-LENCE LET THE WORLD BURN – Let the World Burn is an upcoming EP by the American thrash metal band Vio-Lence, to be released in March of 2022, by Metal Blade Records. It will be the band s first material of any kind since their initial disbandment in 1994, and their first EP since Torture…
Multi-platinum alt-rock trio Wallows have announced their highly anticipated third studio album, Model, following their triumphant return with the release of Your Apartment, last month and Calling After Me, their latest single. The John Congleton-produced album arrives May 24th and is available for pre-order now. – Wallows (composed of Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters and Cole…
The long awaited debut album of Wardruna is the first album in the planned ‘Runaljod’ trilogy which will musically interpret the runes of the elder futhark. This highly visual music is hard to place into any specific genre, and there isn’t really much to compare it with either. The style can perhaps be described as…
If you applied a microscope to the late 80s American hard rock scene, looking for one pivotal song that encompassed the period, then you d be hard pressed to get past Cherry Pie , a track that was all conquering at the time, firmly establishing itself as one of the era s calling cards. With…
The American glam metal band Warrant came into the national spotlight with their double Platinum debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, which peaked at #10 on the Billboard 200. It featured several hit singles, including Heaven , which reached #1 in Rolling Stone and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album contained three…
Weezer doesn t look like rock stars, its amusing name doesn t evoke stadium-heights glories, and the group s lyrics don t exude confidence or flash. For precisely these reasons, and the fact that the band s songs on their Ric Ocasek-produced 1994 self-titled debut are the stuff of air-guitar dreams and shout-it-out choruses, the…
Weezer emerged from a San Fernando Valley garage in 1994 to become one of the biggest success stories in recent pop music history. Their self-titled debut sold over two million copies worldwide and yielded three Top 5 hits on alternative radio ( Buddy Holly garnered four MTV Awards). Their highly-anticipated new album features 10 songs…
Weezer (also known as The Green Album) is the third studio album by Weezer, released on May 15, 2001. Produced by Ric Ocasek, this is the only Weezer album to feature bassist Mikey Welsh, who replaced Matt Sharp. The album is grounded in the power pop genre, featuring strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, and prominent…
Replicating the magic of Guns N Roses, Appetite for Destruction, Black Sabbath and Metallica, White Zombie has, in this major debut album, already begun to pave the path for the future of heavy metal. Their rhythms are complex, their riffs intense. They re a powerhouse of loud and proud. Vocalist Rob Zombie intrigues in shock…