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TOUCH AND GO/DETROIT ROCK CITY: Summer Road Show w/Tesco Vee + Steve Miller
Good news sweaty people of Chicago, Indy, Cleveland, Detroit, and assorted gritty Michigan towns—your summers have been spared!
Literary punk rock frontmen Steve Miller and...
SoCal Punk Invasion: WE GOT POWER! Author Event at Perihelion Arts, Phoenix, 10/4
Opening Sept. 20 with an artist/author reception to follow on Oct. 4 featuring David Markey and Jordan Schwartz
WORD CUP 2016
Tesco Vee Gazes at the Backside of 2012
Hot on the rails of our year-end lists from Mean Deviation author Jeff Wagner and...
INTERMENT: Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week
As we continue our journey through Swedish Death Metal, join us for an eternity of INTERMENT!
ROOTS Celebrates 35 Years of Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast on SiriusXM
A barnstorming assault of instant classic anthems that introduced new singer Bruce Dickinson and catapulted the band into worldwide headlining status.
WRC Rally Cup
Swiss Misters
In the name of sloppy, ruinous cavorting, I left my camera at home and went...
NYHC Author Tony Rettman Hosts G.R.R.!: “Green Room Radio”
NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990 author Tony Rettman has begun hosting a weekly podcast, "Green...
Bloody Roots of Celtic Frost Worship II: The Covers, on Sirius XM
Celtic Frost reinvented by the ultra-heavy likes of High on Fire, Brutal Truth, Mortician, Mayhem, Opeth, Triptykon, Evoken, Cradle of Filth, and more.
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CYCLING TOUR
Thurs 10/22, Rochester, NY: NYHC Author Tony Rettman at Needledrop Records
Catch Tony at NeedleDrop Records in Rochester on Thursday, October 22nd.
What Are You Doing Here? Music Book Club at WORD Brooklyn 2/9
WORD Brooklyn's Music Writing Book Group discusses Laina Dawes's book What Are You Doing Here? about being a black woman into heavy metal on Feb. 9
Mustaine and Hetfield: Metallica’s 1st S.F. Headline Gig, 11/29/82
Thirty years later, Brian Lew's photo says everything about what Mustaine and Hetfield were up to during the first year of Metallica
Tony Iommi Signed My ’73 Gibson SG Special
I had a chance to have Tony Iommi, grand wizard of the horned Gibson, sign my battered SG last year, but I passed. I...
A Message of Peace From Above
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Thanks, Adam!
TENNIS
MELLODRAMA: The Mellotron Movie OUT TODAY
Feature-length documentary chronicles the "ancient samplers," the Chamberlin and the Mellotron keyboards, featuring members of the Moody Blues, the Beach Boys, Genesis, King Crimson, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, the Zombies, Latin Playboys, Yes, Maroon 5, Opeth, and many more.
SWEDISH DEATH METAL: Under the Sign of the Black Mark turns...
The late great Sam Levenson once said, "Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." Had we followed Sam's advice we might...
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The NYHC Band of the Week Is CRUMBSUCKERS
Parris Mayhew, Cro-Mags: "The only New York hardcore band that ever really blew me away was the Crumbsuckers."
TEEN MUSIC HELL: Tangerine Dream from Risky Business | The Official Teen Movie Hell...
The song swells and pulsates and melts in the manner of what Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay do onboard the Pink Line.
Roots of Australian Atmospheric Black Metal | on Sirius XM
Check out early entries from ten years back by Austere and Woods of Desolation, plus current offerings by the mournful and majestic Aquilus, Somnium Vox, Thrall, and more.
CAUSE FOR ALARM Is the NYHC Band of the Week
Their self-released eight-song 1983 7-inch EP is classic ripping hardcore punk, faster and more metallic than most NYHC bands at that time.
TEEN MUSIC HELL: Donna Fein from Midnight Madness | The Official Teen Movie Hell...
Welcome, cable TV, VCR, and drive-in cinema fanatics, to a boombox-blasting, battery-sapping countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of TEEN MOVIE HELL: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from...
Roots of 1980s Metal Heroes in the 1990s | on Sirius XM
We look at the development and diversions explored in metal's lost years by Kreator, Rob Halford, Dio, Saxon, Iron Maiden, Napalm Death, Testament, Death, and more.
TEEN MUSIC HELL: The Wigs from My Chauffeur | The Official Teen Movie Hell...
Welcome, cable TV, VCR, and drive-in cinema fanatics, to a boombox-blasting, battery-sapping countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of TEEN MOVIE HELL: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from...
THE UNDEAD Are the NYHC Band of the Week
Too much punky business! Let's get down to action with our weekly barrage of Lower East Side New York City hardcore punk antics, pulled from the pages of Tony Rettman's big, meaty NYHC book....
Roots Metal Farewell Salute to KISS | on Sirius XM
Kiss originals reveal the heavier side of the legendary band, plus tributes by legions of bands for whom Kiss was their first hard rock love.
TEEN MUSIC HELL: The Circle Jerks from Surf II | The Official Teen Movie...
A boombox-blasting, battery-sapping Top 20 countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden
Roots of Early 1980s Proto-Thrash Metal | on Sirius XM
Tracks by Riot, Accept, Acid, Venom, Exciter, the Rods, Mercyful Fate, Jag Panzer, Satan, Raven, Anvil, Savatage, Manowar and more.
Roots of Metal and Orchestral Collaborations | on SiriusXM
Are orchestral collaborations overindulgent, or the ultimate expression of metal majesty?
Roots of Grunge Rock and Metal | on Sirius XM
Roots of Grunge Rock and Metal | on Sirius XM
Week of April 6, 2019
Sat 4/6, 6PM ET
Sun 4/7, 1PM ET
Mon 4/8, 9AM ET
Tues 4/9, 4PM ET
Thurs 4/11, 9PM ET
To honor twenty-five years this week...
Roots Celebrates 40 Years of Motörhead’s Overkill | on SiriusXM
Rare, live, and alternate takes by Motörhead, plus tributes by the Plasmatics, Metallica, Overkill, Deceased, MX Machine, Bebe Buell, Superchrist, Vader, and more.
Roots of the Exhumed Family of U.S. Metal Freaks | on Sirius XM
We yank out the vast infection of related bands including Impaled, Ghoul, Dekapitator, Gruesome, Pounder, Intronaut, Cretin, Mortuous, Expulsion, Gravehill, and more.
Roots of Jazz in Metal | on SiriusXM
Sax-soaked madness from pioneers Painkiller, Flying Luttenbachers, Ephel Death, and Yakuza, plus modern masters Shining (NO), Ihsahn, Convulsif, and Leftyfish.
Roots of Death/Thrash Metal | on Sirius XM
Hectic thrash and dark, brutal death collide in tracks by Sadus, Slaughter (CA), Massacra, Demolition Hammer, early Sepultura, Hellwitch, Solstice, Pestilence, Carcinogen and others.
Roots Honors 25 Years of Emperor’s In the Nightside Eclipse | on SiriusXM
Emperor's majestic vision of massively vicious and almost orchestral black metal swept the world's imagination
Roots of African Metal | on SiriusXM
Roots of African Metal | on SiriusXM
Week of February 16, 2019
Sat 2/16, 6PM ET
Sun 2/17, 1PM ET
Mon 2/18, 9AM ET
Tues 2/19, 4PM ET
Thurs 2/21, 9PM ET
As Botswana's Skinflint prepares to join Soulfly's North American...
Roots of Heavy Love: Valentine’s Day Metal Sweethearts | on SiriusXM
Roots of Heavy Love: Valentine's Day Metal Sweethearts | on SiriusXM
Week of Feb 9, 2019
Sat 2/9, 6PM ET
Sun 2/10, 1PM ET
Mon 2/11, 9AM ET
Tues 2/12, 4PM ET
Thurs 2/14, 9PM ET
Valentine, bloody Valentine! This week's...
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Swedish Death Metal Awaits…
The demo digitization program has slowed a little lately while I prepare the the US edition of Daniel Ekeroth's outstanding Swedish Death Metal for...
