Hard As Hell
Hard rock reclaims its roots. [09-11-00]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Today's Classics
Despite a prolonged dry spell, post-grunge pop band Weezer find themselves more popular than ever. [08-28-00]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Napster Nation
Napster has created yet another community on the Net. [08-07-00]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Tigre Tales
Since the demise of Bikini Kill, three years ago, Kathleen Hanna has re-emerged with Le Tigre, a breakthrough marriage of garage pop and underground hip-hop. [04-17-00]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Hey Punks!
Jade Tree's Explosion are one of the best punk bands to emerge from an ever-evolving genre. [04-10-00]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Creep Show
Perhaps no performer in pop music today has gone farther out of his way to resemble a cartoon than Rob Zombie, who's made a virtue and a career out of being fake. [12-20-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
String Time
A therapy session for an old-school Metallica fan reveals his disgust for Metallica's Grammy-less year in '89 and how the best heavy metal got lighter. [11-29-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
The Rite Stuff
The all-night/deep-woods location shooting for Godsmack's "Voodoo" video was going fine until the naked mud-caked extras found out they had to wade into a slimy pond. [10-04-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Super Suckers
It took more than a decade, but Royal Trux finally got around to writing a couple of songs. A small feat, perhaps, but there's been no reason to believe they'd ever bother. [09-13-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Wu-Worn
How a bunch of California teenagers went to Harvard and ended up booking the Wu-Tang Clan. [09-07-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Space Case
In this summer of "Star Wars," it seems inevitable that it would occur to someone to release a full-blown rock-and-roll space opera. Enter Powerman 5000 frontman Spider, who may or may not be from Mars. [07-19-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
American Ruse
The Tight Bro's From Way Back When sound like the MC5, but only the side of the MC5 that really dug Chuck Berry, as opposed to the side that wanted to be Ornette Coleman. [07-05-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Punk Rock 101
"Short Music for Short People," a CD offering 101 30-second tracks by 101 bands, might seem useful only as novelty or torture, but quick hits can be fun. [06-14-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Dealer's Choice
Social Distortion's Mike Ness is the finest example of the idea that punk is a kind of postmodern American folk idiom in action. [04-19-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Girl School
In Jawbreaker the Donnas' unrepentant normality casts immediate aspersions on the filmmakers' utopia. [03-15-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Metal Health
At 21, art student Aaron Turner has already helped retool the aesthetics of metal and hardcore from the underground up. And he's just getting started. [02-08-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
New Punk Values
If American rock is somewhat out of touch with American life, perhaps Scandinavian cock rockers can fill the gap. [01-25-99]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Wu-Tangents
In the Wu-Tang Clan, Method Man and the RZA are opposites -- the Voice and the Man Behind the Curtain -- but both make great comic-book heroes. [12-07-98]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Garageland
Metallica's "Garage Days Re-Revisited" revives punk-metal nuggets. [11-30-98]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
Dirty Dozens
Korn and their fellow travelers have embraced hip-hop and created something you might as well call blackface metal. [09-21-98]
Carly Carioli, THE BOSTON PHOENIX
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