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Subscribe >LADDERS TO LEADERS Recovery Benefit Concert An overflowing handful of people including myself have wanted to see the four original members of WRATHCHILD AMERICA do a reunion concert for years but it’s not happening on January 11th, 2025, two original members BRAD DIVENS (former WRATHCHILD AMERICA singer/bassist) and SHANNON LARKIN (former WRATHCHILD AMERICA drummer & […]
KIX played their last show September 17th, 2023 at MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION in COLUMBIA, MD after 45 years. Unfournately, I didn’t make it to the show but I have seen KIX live so many times over the years and they never disappointed. BRIAN FORSYTHE summed up the last show by telling me, “I feel we […]
Don’t you wish there were more death metal bands out there with female singers? Well…there is, if you look. WAR SHEPHERD was referred to me by a friend but I found lots of other death metal bands with female singers who are equal to WAR SHEPHERD. Get reading and then check out their debut single…it’ll […]
Jeanne Adkins is a Pittsburgh based artist/photographer who has been creating alternative and captivating images of fine work since the age of seven. She began like most creative types: 35mm camera film that led a path to digital and artificial design. Thirty-seven years later she is still on the path of discovery with […]
Here’s an interview with an in-your-face punk bassist JOHN FAHNESTOCK. Quoted himself “I Play a “Mean Distorted” 78′ P-Bass through an Ampeg SVT it’s LOUD and will make your Hair Move!” What more could you ask for? Dig in… Marcy: How old were you when you started playing bass??? Why bass??? John: it was around […]
As you may know…if not, I was the Editor of a FAN/MAGAZINE named ROCKBOTTOM since I was 14 years old….psssst….i’ll probably be 51 by the time this is printed. WC, WCA or SAZ graced the pages one way or another in EVERY issue. Anyway, this article was written up by SHANNON LARKIN for me quite […]
~Marcy Miller Twenty-three years after releasing their last full-length, thrash metal band Sacred Reich returned in force with their fifth studio album ‘Awakening’, on August 23rd, 2019 released by Metal Blade Records demonstrating without effort that they remain a formidable force in thrash metal. Catch them on tour… I asked Chuck Fitzgerald from Massachusetts back […]
1-HELLBASTARD has been around for quite a long time…could you please get everyone up to date by sharing the important ‘happenings’ of HELLBASTARD’S long standing existence?? Well,…. we recorded a demo in 1986 titled “Ripper Crust”, which subsequently gave way to Hellbastard being apparently responsible for the birth of a new musical genre called “Crust”,…or […]
DEAN CRAMER of SO LOW and formerly of FUNNY MONEY with STEVE WHITEMAN of KIX, is one of the most excellent musicians I ever met…fun, always smiling, very self-confident minus the ROCK STAR EGO too many musicians have… DEAN’S band SO LOW is missing from the music scene today….. 80’s hair-band-get-your-fun-loving’-groove-on with lots of melodic […]
England’s hard rock/metal TYGERS OF PAN TANG are out and about and definitely on the prowl again since the recent release of their highly praised RITUAL album. I caught up with my friend, Gav Gray, TYGERS bassist extraordinaire and he got me up to date on TYGERS latest happenings….please read on, enjoy and check out […]