The American music market is a meat grinder that chews up foreign bands and spits out their bones. Ask any European metal act trying to crack the States, and they'll tell you horror stories about empty venues in Omaha, promoters who vanish with the door money, and radio
The death rattle of another indie label echoes through the gutted warehouses of American music, and this time it's Chicago's Trouble in Mind Records pulling the plug after nearly two decades of fighting the good fight. They announced their closure with the kind of resigned dignity
The Metal God is pissed off again, and thank Christ for that. Rob Halford didn't spend fifty years fronting Judas Priest to bite his tongue now. At 73, the man who practically invented the leather-and-studs metal aesthetic is still catching shit for who he loves, and he'
Wolfgang Van Halen isn't pulling punches. When AI-generated music started creeping into the sonic landscape, he dropped a digital sledgehammer: "I think generative A.I. is really stupid. I just think it's dumb. I think it's a waste of time. I think A.