Robert Ham

The Strokes Comedown Machine Few who saw and heard the Strokes when they burst forth from the New York City music scene more than a decade ago would have predicted that the quintet still be around today, let alone releasing their fifth album. The group had a sound and an attitude that seemed primed for […]

Good For You Life Is Too Short To Not Hold A Grudge The return of Greg Ginn to the heated, heavy sound he helped foment as the leader of Black Flag is a welcome one, even if this new project does come on the heels of the announcement that he is recording a new Black […]

Greys Drift EP One of an increasing number of bands that are looking to the noise-rock pioneers of the ’90s (Unsane, Hot Snakes, Chokebore) for inspiration, Greys do right by their forebears on this, their third consecutive EP in three years. Over the course of three blistering songs, the Toronto quartet find that tantalizing middle […]

A Life Once Lost Ecstatic Trance A Life Once Lost are certainly not the first band to understand and appreciate the hypnotic element that lies underneath the fury and power of heavy music. Because all too often, we focus on the volume and brute force of metalcore and black metal without acknowledging how affecting it […]

Anywhere Anywhere Apparently it's a race within the ranks of the Mars Volta to see how many side projects the members of the prog-rock group can release before Ragnarok kills us all. The latest salvo from within this camp is Anywhere, a supergroup featuring TMV singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala on drums, Triclops! guitarist Christian Eric Beaulieu, […]

Jeff The Brotherhood Hypnotic Nights When word came down that Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach was going to be behind the controls of the new Jeff The Brotherhood album, the hope was that he would bring back in some of the garage rock looseness that marked the band's earliest work but has been systematically chipped […]

Beak> >> It takes a certain kind of music freak to simply throw the full weight of their talent behind whatever project might flutter into the transom of his/her mind. But it's those fearless souls like Jack White, Wayne Coyne and Geoff Barrow that are keeping listeners on their toes and garnering much respect, even […]

Public Image Limited This is PiL This is not the Public Image Limited that you want. But really, how could it be? As much as we'd love to see what so many consider to be the “perfect” lineup of this ever-morphing band, John Lydon is too headstrong to bother with mending the bridges he burned […]

JD Samson & MEN Time EP JD Samson is best known for the work she has done alongside other people. She backed up the larger-than-life Kathleen Hanna as a member of the electro-dance project Le Tigre. In recent years, Samson has picked up songwriting credits, helping out a wide array of artists including Christina Aguilera […]