Bram Teitelman
DevilDriver Slay at New York Thrash and Burn Tour Stop
Are DevilDriver -- a band formed in 2002 -- elder statesmen of the metal scene? While that sounds like something out of an alternate universe, it's definitely been the case with the Thrash and Burn tour, which stopped in New York in early August...
Night Horse Pay Tribute to Les Paul at New York Show
Night Horse is fueled by the dual guitar attack of Justin Maranga and Greg Buensuceso. Playing New York's Pianos the night of Les Paul's death, the California band dedicated a song to the electric guitar inventor and innovator, saying they wouldn't be on stage without him...
Testament Rock Sirius/XM With ‘Artist Confidential’ Performance
It took them nine years to release last year's comeback album, 'The Formation of Damnation,' and 16 months later, Bay Area thrash legends Testament wound down the album cycle on Aug. 10 in style, with a special performance at the Sirius/XM studios in New York, N...
Mike Portnoy’s Fingerprints All Over Progressive Nation Tour
Mike Portnoy has more than just a hand in the Progressive Nation tour, currently in its second year. While his band, Dream Theater, has headlined both years of the tour's incarnation, the drummer, an avid music fan, also curated both years' lineups...
Repulsion, Pig Destroyer, Brutal Truth Kick Off Blackened Music Series
There are places you expect to see grindcore shows, like basements and the occasional VFW hall. Then there's the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Brooklyn, N.Y. -- an ornate, 100-year-old building that's more accustomed to hosting family reunions and potluck dinners than a once-in-a-liftime show featuring three generations of grindcore...
Tool Triumphantly Cap Second Night of All Points West
Most bands wouldn't be able to successfully headline a multi-band festival touring behind a three year-old album, but then, most bands aren't Tool. The enigmatic quartet capped off the middle day of the second annual All Points West festival on Saturday, August 1...
Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy Is Fine With Bootlegging
Dream Theater started on their Progressive Nature tour on July 24, with the band's shows no doubt documented in minute detail by bootleggers – and drummer Mike Portnoy not only tolerates this, but encourages it. An avid bootlegger himself, in 2003, he launched Ytsejam Records, which distributes 'official' bootlegs of his band's live shows, demos and the covers of albums.
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Get Some Hardcore Bang for Your Hardcore Buck With 10 For $10 Tour
If you had a dime for every time a hardcore band sang about unity, you'd be picking up change in the pit long after the show ended. But as much of a lyrical cliche as that is, the sense of togetherness the genre inspires was in full force at the New York City stop of the 10 for $10 Tour last week...
Sunn 0)))’s Greg Anderson Doesn’t Care About Metallica Anymore
Long before he co-founded experimental noise act Sunn 0))) and their label Southern Lord, Greg Anderson was a fan of Metallica. But as the Bay Area band got more mainstream and Anderson's tastes got decidedly less so, he lost his interest in the multi-platinum quartet...
Goatwhore’s Ben Falgoust Admits He’s a Reluctant Sex Symbol
There sure are a lot of dreamy guys out there, right ladies? Brad Pitt, David Beckham, that promise keeper vampire dude from 'Twilight,' Goatwhore's Ben Falgoust ... wait, what? Yes. Falgoust was included in Revolver's 'Hottest Men in Metal' list last year, and has yet to live it down...