Motorhead

Five '70s Metal Bands Who Are Better Than Black Sabbath

By Nicholas Pell OK, we get it. You like Sabbath. Everyone does. But there's a whole big world out there of '70s metal bands that goes beyond Sabbath -- even beyond Sir Lord Baltimore, if you can believe that. The '70s offered so much in the way of doom-and-gloom heaviness that it's criminal so man ... More >>

Selling Music is Easy: Just Partner With WWE and Wrestlemania

Sunday night, the biggest sports-entertainment spectacle of the year, Wrestlemania 29, returns home to the New York/New Jersey area that birthed the event almost 30 years ago. While fans are flying in from all over the world to see such colossal match-ups as John Cena vs. The Rock and Brock Lesnar v ... More >>

High on Fire

Reviews of Wines From Famous Rock 'n' Roll Bands!

By Brian McManus Lately we've noticed a lot of bands have their own brands of wine, including Motörhead, Kiss, AC/DC, and Ratt. (Even Warrant has a wine. Warrant.) One of our friends at Wine Spectator magazine showed us the piece they wrote in April about this trend, and noted they were going to r ... More >>

Q&A: Pizza Punkers Little Seizures On Their Old Bands, Good Parties, And The Power Of Vietnamese Sandwiches

Little Seizures are a one-yearish-old band populated by roughly 80%, uh, wizened local punk veterans. Their howling and chutzpah heave out like a bunch of brats, though, and it's especially evident on their brand-new 7" "Pizza Punk," which bounces around with Johnny Thunders-like riffs, Angry Samoan ... More >>

Live: Megadeth Keep It Muted At The Theater At Madison Square Garden

Gigantour: Megadeth, Motörhead, Lacuna Coil, Volbeat The Theater At Madison Square Garden Saturday, January 28 Better than: The World Needs a Hero in its entirety tour. Dave Mustaine has spent the better part of this young decade on a mission to restore his image. He's put out a bestselling auto ... More >>

Megadeath+Motörhead+Volbeat

Nine Songs That Begin With The Phrase "Born To," In Order

​9. Hinder, "Born To Be Wild" 8. Lana Del Rey, "Born To Die"

We Want The Airwaves, Baby: 10 Songs About The Ramones

Joey Ramone would have been 60 years old on May 19. This week, in celebration of the birthday of the Queens-born gone-too-soon punk legend, Sound of the City will run a series of features on his life and his legacy. ​Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery--and whose style has been ... More >>

Live: Motörhead, Clutch, And Valient Thorr Pack 'Em In At Best Buy Theater

Just don't get between Lemmy and the bar, or the women. Pics by Phil.​Motörhead/Clutch/Valient Thorr Best Buy Theatre Monday, February 28 Better than: Any other 65-year-old still making (rock) music. Bassist/vocalist/negative role model Lemmy has always insisted that Motörhead are not a me ... More >>

Fawning Rock Doc Lemmy Is No Ace of Spades

The Lemmy Kilmister Documentary, Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son Of A Bitch, Is Coming To New York City In January

​Now here's a fuckin' movie. The Lenny Kilmster documentary, wonderfully titled Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son Of A Bitch and apparently a big hit on the international festival circuit ("Best Documentary" in Chile!), is finally hitting the U.S.A. in early 2011, including an engagement at Cin ... More >>

Sherry Cocktails Are Hot; Witches Pissed at Witch's Wit Beer

​Sherry cocktails are all the rage these days. Find them at Gilt, Anfora, and Aldea. [NY Post] Gypsy brewers, like Pretty Things and Stillwater Artisanal Ales, are cropping up everywhere. They don't have a home brewery, but travel from facility to facility. [Atlantic Food] Vinitaly took plac ... More >>

Live: Brooklyn's Hedonistic Waffles & Tits Party Takes On Heavy Metal Parking Lot

Just your average Sunday afternoon. Pics by Chris, more below.​Waffles & Tits 3: Heavy Metal Parking Lot House of Yes Sunday, October 24 Waffles & Tits, Brooklyn's traveling shit-show of a Sunday-afternoon party, is equal parts rock opera, Vaudeville revival, and Gathering of the Juggalos-esq ... More >>

Jamey Johnson Sprawls Out

His two-disc, 25-track Guitar Song leaves no base uncovered

The Giraffes

Coliseum

Live: Midnight Lead A Sunday-Night Metal Blowout At Europa

​Midnight, and their aftermath. Pics by Daniel D. Snyder.​Deathrash/Midnight/Mutant Supremacy/Mutilation Rites Club Europa Sunday, June 20 First, a note on the cancelled Metal Stage at Sunday's third-annual Punk Island Fest on Governor's Island: Apparently, it's "punk" to invite bands ... More >>

Live from Shepard Fairey's "May Day" Opening at Deitch Projects: Fab 5 Freddy, Rick Ross, and a Topless Breastfeeding Lady

all photos by Sam HorineShepard Fairey has a motorcycle posse and it includes Rick Ross. Shepard Fairey's "May Day" show opened this past Saturday. The promotional noise from Deitch Projects' send-off has been near-deafening, amplified by the hubbub around Fairey's rabidly targeted, heavily guarded ... More >>

Please Enjoy These Portraits of Recognizable People Our Photog Ran Into at SXSW

Recognizable, not notable: Shwayze, Perez Hilton, Cisco Adler Nate "Igor" Smith took photos of semi-famous people at South By Southwest. No naked people, but Mary Louise Parker! Full gallery over here.

Holiday Music Roundup '09

Weird Christmas records: They're not just for Dylan anymore

Live: Jay-Z Battles Bourgie Malcontents At Blender Theater

Jay-Z Blender Theater at Gramercy Wednesday, Sept. 9 Man it's a lot of fun standing in a mob of people angrily chanting "Fuck T-Pain!" Yes, Jay played a "secret" MySpace/DJ Hero show 48 hours before a slightly more publicized Madison Square Garden charity gig, but, Auh!, that's just the sort of ... More >>

HAMMERED OUT

There is metal, and then there is Motörhead

All Hail White Wizzard and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

Tranny-welcoming L.A. dudes hop in their GTO and escape from evil girlfriends, each other

News Roundup: Radiohead, Weezer, Brooklyn Book Festival, Them Crooked Vultures, The Verve

​--A new Radiohead track was mysteriously posted at the fan site Atease yesterday. "These Are My Twisted Words" is a two-minute number that may just well be the sing-along anthem of the summer. Just kidding. It's an eerie, echoey five-and-a-half minutes of noise and Thom Yorke's vocals don't e ... More >>

News Roundup: Japandroids, It Came From Brooklyn, and More $5 Tickets

Leigh RightonJapandroids, the second Siren band who set their drums on fire --We've already lamented missing what was probably one of Japandroids' last tiny gigs in New York ever, but here's a manageably-sized solution: tickets for their Mercury Lounge show on September 24 are onsale today. If int ... More >>

Motorhead at the Roseland 09/09/09: Tickets For $5. Seriously, $5!

File under Bucket List additions. You owe it to facial moles, yourself, and that really scary horned-beast logo on the left to see Motorhead before you go, which will most definitely be after Lemmy Kilmister goes. Because Lemmy famously abides by an airtight health regimen of drinking Jack and Cok ... More >>

Converge+Coliseum

Hugs and Kisses 74: Everett True DJ'd ATP Australia, Neener-Neener

In this week's installment of Hugs and Kisses, Everett True reports back on his DJ set, the one he was fretting over last week. One week less than last week nine more months until ATP NY [sigh]. Hugs and Kisses The Down Under Outbursts of Everett True This week: ATP Australia, part two So t ... More >>

Hugs and Kisses 63: Mudhoney Hack Job

HEAVY ROCKS

Two flavors of feedback

Metal Gets Rhythm

Fast, Brutal, and Out of Control

One thing war is evidently good for: metal

Shredfest Engage

Two packs of badass metalheads take diametrically opposed paths to inspiring euphoria

Badass Headbanging Lifers Discuss Life and, Not Surprisingly, Death

'Going Shopping'

My Night to Howl

Metal carnivores conceptualize in the land of ice and snow

Murderous Punk Albums Share Plenty With Each Other and Nobody Else

Help the Poor

No sleep 'til we get to the bottom of the economic ladder

Glam Is the New Metal

Metal scales windy heights; glam prowls crimson nights

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Treasure Chest

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Ghost Dance

It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber, It’s a Bomber

Wildhearts Can Be Broken

Where's Joe Buck?

Flaming Bosoms!

Re-rewind the Clock

One EP Forward, Two-Step’s Back

Death by Truncheon

The Spaghetti Incident?