There's nothing quite like the bone-rattling immediacy of a Lightning Bolt show: the audience literally face-to-face with the duo, set up on...

"Too many friends died this year," screams Cancer Bats frontman Liam Cormier at the end of "Arsenic in the Year of the Snake," a track that...

There's a moment during the song "Devil's Blood" on Searching For Zero where the instruments drop out one by one, until just Mike Peters' sn...

Brooklyn's A Place to Bury Strangers are a quintessentially DIY trio. Not only do they build most of their own gear — thanks to bandle...

It's been a decade now since Cancer Bats first debuted their particular alchemy of hardcore energy and metallic chops. But one needn't look...

Oliver Ackermann is familiar, if not entirely comfortable, with the process of destruction and rebirth. The bandleader/singer/guitarist of n...

As if Sleater-Kinney was going to return from an eight-year hiatus and deliver anything less than a thoroughly raging collection of post-pun...

Meligrove Band have never really been part of any scene. Though the Toronto quartet's first notable release, Let It Grow, came out the same...

Michael Mann's 1995 crime-drama masterpiece Heat is a movie jam-packed with anti-heroes, one of whom even gets to beat up Henry Rollins. But...

It was only a matter of time before Soundgarden started cashing in on grunge nostalgia, which is totally reasonable considering their classi...

Lately, it seems that to be somebody, someone should make a documentary about your band. Sure, there's inherent enlightenment to be found in...

Clutching the microphone cable as he flailed the mic around in front of a packed Mod Club crowd, Antemasque frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala lo...

Forget those Rockabye Baby! albums with lullaby versions of Slayer and Sabbath; metal fans searching for soothing sounds that still have str...

Toronto's Meligrove Band have always thrived on sounding slightly out of place. Their first few albums of psychedelic power-pop made for an...

For every dozen or so questionable musical side projects by Hollywood stars — Jared Leto's Five Seconds to Mars, Billy Bob Thornton's...

There's no riff too big for the dudes of Olde. On the Toronto doom-metal band's debut album, I, the five members approach their sound as if...

Dave Grohl's unbridled enthusiasm for the magic and the power of rock'n'roll is a wondrous and thoroughly infectious thing to behold. It was...

Sometimes, it seems that the only way for a band to distinguish itself is to come up with a sound so obnoxious that people can't help but ha...

For Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, nothing lasts forever — and that goes for both beloved bands and interpersonal anim...

Too often, "experimental" is used as a catch-all descriptor for music that simply sounds weird. And while Toronto trio Absolutely Free certa...