Released by: Skydog Records/MVD
Released on: December 18th, 2020.
Year: Various
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Iggy And The Stooges - From K.O. To Chaos Review: This eight disc boxed set, made up of seven CDs and one DVD, gathers together all of the Iggy And The Stooges releases that have been released over the years from France's Skydog Records, including the infamous Metallic KO album from 1976 and the two complete shows that that album was culled from, in ad...

Hey, remember concerts? Concerts were fun. Covid-19 has kind of completely fucked concerts for the time being, who knows when we'll get to enjoy live music again, so with that in mind, why not relive past glories through pictures of concerts from days past? Let's do it!

A mere seven months ago (it seems like an eternity at this point), the modern day version of Pentagram cruised through Brooklyn to play a show on June 19^th at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg....

Hey, remember concerts? Concerts were fun. Covid-19 has kind of completely fucked concerts for the time being, who knows when we'll get to enjoy live music again, so with that in mind, why not relive past glories through pictures of concerts from days past? Let's do it! A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away known as Portland, Oregon, one Jon Mikl Thor - or just plain old Thor to the masses - played a show at Dante's, a club on West Burnside in the downtown area famous for o...

Hey, remember concerts? Concerts were fun. Covid-19 has kind of completely fucked concerts for the time being, who knows when we'll get to enjoy live music again, so with that in mind, why not relive past glories through pictures of concerts from days past? Last week we looked back at some very fuzzy memories of the time Electric Eel Shock played Sabala's in Portland, Oregon on July 11^th, 2006. Fourteen fucking years ago but this week, we don't need to set the time travel dial...

Hey, remember concerts? Concerts were fun. Covid-19 has kind of completely fucked concerts for the time being, who knows when we'll get to enjoy live music again, so with that in mind, why not relive past glories through pictures of concerts from days past? Let's start this off with some pictures and very, very fuzzy memories of the time Electric Eel Shock played Sabala's in Portland, Oregon, way back on July 11^th, 2006. Fourteen fucking years ago. Anyway, here's a good rule...

On the evening of Friday, March 6th at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan, New Yorkers were treated to a live performance of Jane Birkin's Birkin/Gainsbourg: Le Symphonic, which is, quite literally, the late Serge Gainsbourg's muse and collaborator performing a selection of songs from their collective discography in front of a symphony orchestra. In this case, that happened to be The Hudson Valley Philharmonic, accompanied by composer Nobuyuki Nakajima (the man who worked with Birki...

Ross The Boss - Born Of Fire (AFM Records) Album Review
Released by: AFM Records
Released on: March 6^th, 2020.
Purchase From Amazon Ross 'The Boss' Friedman is legitimate rock 'n' roll royalty. In the seventies, he was a founding member of legendary New York City punk pioneers The Dictators and when he got that out of his system, he moved on to help found equally legendary metal act Manowar. After recording the first six Manowar albums he bounced around between a f...

FEAR, celebrating their 40^th anniversary with a tour that is, if not the original lineup, at least partially what is regarded as the 'classic lineup,' made a stop in New York City on September 21^st, 2018. One of those bands that used to be able to blast through seventeen songs in fifty-minutes proved that, yes, forty years later, they should still blast through seventeen songs in fifty-minutes. Apparently time means nothing to Lee Ving, now pushing seventy but showing no signs...

Tompkins Square Park, located in the East Village in Manhattan, has long been a sight the locals associate with politics and activism. There were anti-war protests there in the sixties, and in the eighties it became a de facto homeless camp and was ripe with drug problems. In 1988, the cops came in and tried to oust the homeless that were living there. This resulted in a now fairly infamous riot, clips of which did wind up on newscasts around the New York City area. When it was a...

On June 16^th we went to the Brooklyn Bazaar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn to see The Street Dogs play with The New Darkbuster opening. While I was there, I drank a lot of beer and when I drink a lot of beer, I need to go to the bathroom - and so I did. Thank God! Because had I not I'd have never found out that a last minute Dayglo Abortions show was going on at the same venue in a week. It seems kind of fitting that I'd learn about a Dayglos show in a grubby, dirty, graffiti covered...

The Damned (with support from California's The Bellrays) took the stage last night in Brooklyn at the Warsaw concert theater in front of a sold out crowd. The date that had to be rescheduled after guitarist Captain Sensible tumbled off the stage and did some damage to his ribs towards the end of the Toronto show earlier on the tour. While the good Captain was put away in the hospital for a spell after the incident, you'd have never known it last night. He played with the energy and e...

Norwegian black metal legends Mayhem closed off their De Mysteries Dom Sathans Alive tour, in which they played their seminal debut full length album live from start to finish on February 19^th in New York City at the Gramercy Theater to a capacity crowd (well technically the finish was February 20^th at St. Vitus, a show that was added at the last minute and which sold out incredibly quickly). The night opened with support from local black metal act Black Anvil, whose latest albu...

Carcass With Crowbar, Ghoul & Night Demon - Gramercy Theater, NYC 8-04-2016 The second to last night of the One Foot In The Grave tour stopped in Manhattan last night at the Gramercy Theater for a sold out show. Night Demon were up first, but 'the man' would let me off work in time to check out there set, which was disappointing because their album, Curse Of The Damned, is really good and by all accounts, so is their live show. Ghoul, touring in support of their l...

Yesterday a whole bunch of people got together at Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan's Lower East Side for a good cause. To quote from the page set up for this event: “As many of you know, Gary Miller (aka Dr. Know or Doc), guitarist of the Legendary Washington DC punk band Bad Brains, suffered cardiac arrest in early November last year. His condition quickly progressed to multiple organ failure, and he was on life support for almost 2 weeks. At the time, his doctors gave him a 5% chance of...

Venom Inc. Live At Saint Vitus, Brooklyn NY 6-1-2016
By Ian Jane and Horace Cordier

Ian Says…

Venom Inc., are Venom. At least in a sense. Tony 'Abaddon' Bray and Jeff 'Mantas' Dunn may not plays drums and guitars with Conrad 'Cronos' Lant anymore, but it almost doesn't matter because these days, they've got Tony 'The Demolition Man' Dolan on vocals and bass. While Dolan's work filling in for Venom (not Venom Inc.) in the...