"I tried to leave you,” Leonard Cohen sang with a smile in his second encore, but it was harder than he expected. What was supposed to be a...

A small but almost belligerently ecstatic crowd greeted Metric as they took to the stage of the Cunard Centre in support of Grow Up and Blow...

Almost, but not quite, a concept album, Situation positions 1957 as the year everything happened. Against the backdrop of the escalating Col...

Hearsay misled hundreds to the top of Citadel Hill for an afternoon White Stripes sideshow that was so secret it didn’t happen. As it turned...

Asked recently which Halifax hip-hop artists are most likely to get with major labels in 2007, scene veteran Jorun answered, "Other than Cla...

What remains for Point Pleasant, West Virginia rap-metal outfit Bobaflex now that rap-metal is dead and buried? New life as an entirely comp...

American Apathy is the wrong title for the fifth album from New York nu-metal imitators Dope. The most troubling aspect of George Bush’s Ame...

Having seemingly exhausted at last the possibilities of recombination within Oakland’s promiscuous and prolific Anticon crew, Hollis, Maine...

A muffled but familiar voice greets us in the opening moments of the Alter Boys’ debut LP: "This is The Exotic Sounds of the Alter Boys. Eff...

Devil-locked Japanese horror punks Balzac really like the Misfits. Indebted to Lodi, New Jersey’s finest for both their sonic template and t...

There are some awkward stabs at relevance here from the artist formerly known as Vincent Damon Furnier. The most egregious of these occurs i...

Released to coincide with the publication of the autobiography Tommyland and the debut of the "reality” show Tommy Lee Goes to College — in...

A novelty record in the truest sense, Sam Elwitt’s Jerry Only-endorsed Nutley Brass’ loungecore treatment of Misfits standards is a delight...

Aaron Lewis is back, bloodless, lifeless, and monotonous as ever in his relentless yet imprecise adolescent complaint against the oppressive...

Losing Sun eschew the nu-metal banality of the recent past in favour of the way-back sounds of Alice in Chains and early Soundgarden, with m...

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While none of Motörhead’s nearly 20 official live albums (the count depends on your definition of "official”) can match the filthy sublime o...

Static-X return, bloodless and crisp as ever. Vocals vacillate between tuneful bellow and tuneless bark, digitally distorted down-tuned guit...

In volume three of CBS's 1987 to 1994 Saturday morning mainstay, Garfield and Friends, naps are taken, Lasagne is eaten and sunspots are avi...

Martially-attired Los Angeles post-hardcore three-piece 400 Blows are at least as punk as the 1959 François Truffaut "nouvelle vague” tale o...