The drumming community got a surprise in June 2026 when hard rock stalwarts Godsmack revealed another new drummer onstage: Mike Mangini. It struck some as a surprising match, as Mangini had previously ...

It is hard to imagine a time when albums were an alien concept. Given that the vast majority of people, certainly the people reading this article, have memories that do not stretch back far enough to ...

A seven year old me ran downstairs on Christmas morning to open a box. Inside was another, much heavier grey box with a strange opening and the letters “PS” on top. I had no idea what it was at the ...

In a pre-show conversation with Vibe, Clinton noted that his new mothership was "made from the same blueprint as the first one," but with technological updates like a modern light ...

The L.A. improv quintet made its first two LPs by remixing key moments from its gigs; now, on a pair of astonishing unedited ...

Maybe the real monster in the Alien franchise isn’t actually the killer alien. Because behind the acid blood and jump scares is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with unchecked power.

When you dare to rank the Rush catalog from worst to best—pitting “Digital Man” against “New World Man,” “Red Lenses” versus “Red Barchetta,” “2112” opposite “Force Ten”—you make yourself vulnerable ...

If asked to imagine an alien world, you would probably picture an expansive barren terrain shrouded in an eerie mist that dampens all colour and sound. In short, you’d be thinking of Iceland, which ...

There’s something seductively audacious about the concept album. While most records aim simply to collect a dozen good songs, the concept album goes further – weaving tracks together with a narrative ...