In my opinion PUNK IS DEAD! True punk. It never evolved but took a huge back burner to the new wave of British Heavy Metal and Glam Rock. It faded out and when it started back up it was bands that could actually play their instruments with precision. The vocals were still rough, but had a bit of melody about them. It wasn’t the same as it was when it was big. It wasn’t called punk but was now called ‘New School’ and old punk originals were now deemed ‘Old School Punk’. I used to like some Old School …read more

What the hell is ‘The Gravel Report’? Over at MetalMartyr.com I do The Scrap Metal Report. It’s basically one post with a round up of various news pieces from the day or past days, sometimes with a link to the original story. This is a rock blog so this is The Gravel Report. This will be an every other day or every now and then thing. Welcome…
The Butthole Surfers Brawlers? Gibby Haynes was carted off stage last night by security in an NYC show for pelting the soundman with a beer bottle. I’ve seen this before with The Misfitsin D.C. …read more

Perhaps this is something that I should post over at Metal Martyr, but I have always thought of Motorhead as more of a hard rock band ( I know a lot of people would argue that, but even Lemmy says that Motorhead are more or less a rock band) and I try to keep things as Metal as possible over at MetalMartyr.com.
Motorhead are embarking on a North American tour starting in August with Heaven And Hell, Judas Priest, and Testament, called The Metal Masters Tour. Gonna be a great show no matter what way you look at it. After that they …read more

The Mifits have been one of my favorite bands since the mid 90’s when a friend of mine introduced me to them. I didn’t really get into them until I saw them live with Michael Graves singing in 1996 and then from there it snow-balled into almost an obsession. Buying up anything and everything I could find that had to do with The Misfits. Personally I like the old Misfits, but Graves did a good job on American Psycho and this facade that Jerry Only is putting on these days falls short.
When Guns N Roses came out with the Spaghetti …read more