In the sports world, there’s a concept called “a rebuilding year”. It’s when your team has fallen apart: the star talent has been traded elsewhere, the new kids from the minors are still learning the ropes, the coaches have all been fired and replaced by third and fourth-tier managers, and the seasoned players are [...]
Queensryche’s latest, American Soldier, is out today! Check it out over at Amazon.com:
One of the downsides of doing a lot of album reviews for a zine is that you have to listen to a lot of crap that takes a lot of effort to get through once, let alone enough times to write a thousand words about it. And that job is even harder when it’s [...]
Who killed Mary? That’s the takeaway on probably the finest concept album ever created by a prog-metal band. Before Queensryche’s third album, the band already had an impressive collection of unique metal material, but Operation: Mindcrime not only progressed their sound and voice, but added the element of a timely and complex plot [...]
First off, the video for “If I Were King” is available now on Military.com. Check it out here. It’s not bad, although I could use a little more of the storyline video and a little less of Geoff Tate. It’s a little clearer this time that it’s a Somalia and Bosnia vet, [...]
If you’re a Rush fan, you’ve probably already heard, but I’ll repeat it anyway: the Paul Rudd/Jason Segel movie I Love You, Man is pretty damn funny. It also features a pretty prominent plot element concerning the band Rush, along with a performance of the song “Limelight” by the band.
The movie is a buddy [...]
Remember back in the day when you had to search for a year and a half to find even the tiniest blurb about Rush in the news? Looks like that changed - there have been a million interviews with both Geddy and Alex all over
Geddy in Entertainment Weekly - I posted a link to [...]
I’m really starting to hate the term “widget”. It is one of those ambiguous bandwagons every tech company is jumping on, like Ajax or App Stores or whatever else. There are currently 863 different ways to do widgets, and none of them are compatible with each other.
But, here’s a good example of a [...]
Geoff Tate has written a column in Military.com called “Thank a Soldier”. Check it out here: http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,187049,00.html.
It’s basically an explanation of how their new album came about: he sat down with his dad, a Korea and Vietnam vet, and video-taped their conversation about his experiences in those two conflicts. He decided to write [...]
What is Chickenfoot?
It’s a band featuring Joe Satriani, Sammy Hagar, Anthony Michaels, and Chad Smith. And according to Joe Satriani’s web site, they will have a new album coming out real soon.
Stay tuned to http://www.myspace.com/thechickenfoot for more info - there’s a very brief teaser up already.
The clip sounds decent, but this interests me in [...]
