Thursday night, I witnessed one of the greatest acts on metal this world has seen. No, it wasn’t any big name bands like Opeth or Gojira. It was just a small three piece band, who use nothing more than 2 lights, a little bit of fog, and three instruments to create one of the most unbelievable live…
Staples Center goes Vegetarian for Morrissey
By New Media Director | Published February 21st, 2013Morrissey has infamously pushed vegetarianism on concert venues he has promised to play. The latest one did not have to pushed. The Staples Center has agreed to go completely vegetarian for the Morrissey concert on March 1st on the condition that the singer does not cancel. How many times has somebody ever said, “I had…
Old Man Takes A Look At His Life
By Rock Director | Published February 20th, 2013We here at the Great 88 love a good rockstar memoir. They offer us windows into the creative minds of our musical heroes. Plus they’re just fun reading. The latest and greatest grey haired musings come to us from everyones favorite flannel wearing Canadian, Neil Young. In “Waging Heavy Peace” the prolific songwriter meanders through…
KZSC Jazz Charts 2/19
By Jazz and Blues Boss | Published February 19th, 2013After what felt like a week of summer weather it’s finally a chilly 50 degrees with rain in California. For a second I thought winter was over. Your Charts and Adds for the week as follows: KZSC Jazz Charts 1 JOY MOVER Joy Mover 2 AARON NEVILLE My True Story Blue Note 3 CECILY KATE…
Loud Rock Charts: 12/19
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published February 18th, 2013I sincerely hope everyone has had a great three day weekend! In celebration of our forefathers, why not take a listen to some awesome new metal? In particular, Suffocation’s Pinnacle of Bedlam has been making waves in the metal community, for great reason. Also adding today, Psychothermia’s newest album is just as awesome and “kooky” as its name…
Loud Rock Charts: 2/12
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published February 11th, 2013In this week’s version of great awesome new metal, we see hardcore band Shai Hulud release what could amount to be one of the finest albums in the genre since Converge’s Jane Doe (yep, you heard me right). Also dropping is the ever increasingly popular band Bullet for my Valentine with Temper Temper, who are hoping…
Jazz Album Review: Branford Marsalis “Four MFs Playin’ Tunes”
By Jazz and Blues Boss | Published February 8th, 2013This week I had the opportunity to listen to Branford Marsalis’ newest release, Four Mfs Playin’ Tunes. This album is the first of his to feature 21 year old drummer Justin Faulkner who in the last 5 years has replaced the seemingly irreplaceable Jeff “Tain” Watts. Tain is one of the most powerfully aggressive modern drummers out…
Loud Rock Charts: 2/5
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published February 4th, 2013In this latest addition of new Loud Rock stuff ‘n’ things, the whole world is subject to the awesome instrumentation of Pomegranate Tiger, an instrumental outfit not unlike that of Scale the Summit or Animals as Leaders. However, they’re original enough to garner some well deserved critical acclaim. And for those of you wondering, they…
KZSC Jazz Charts for the week of 2/1/2013
By Jazz and Blues Boss | Published February 1st, 2013Hello, hope everyone is having a good week and looking forward to the weekend. Here are the KZSC Jazz charts and adds for the week: KZSC Jazz Charts 1 MIMI FOX Standards, Old And New 2 JACKIE RYAN Listen Here OPEN ART 3 AARON NEVILLE My True Story Blue Note 4 JOE LOVANO Cross Culture …
Loud Rock Charts: 1/29
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published January 28th, 2013The week of January 29th brings upon us a very heavy slew of metal. Arguably the best record to drop so far, Vertikal sees Cult of Luna further themselves as the leaders in the post metal genre. I thought it was pretty darn tootin’ too. Also brutalize our eardrums is Maelstrom’s newest record It Was Predestined…