Interview w/ Neal Middleton of Royal Bliss

Royal Bliis bring their new album to Flint next Saturday.

For a band who has been proclaimed the “unluckiest band in rock”, the guys in Royal Bliss seemed to be putting that moniker to rest in 2008 and 2009 as the band scored two Top 40 Rock singles in “Save Me” and [...]

Interview w/ Revocation

Revocation open for Children of Bodom in an east side show at Harpo's on Tuesday.

Look at any year end Top 10 list of metal albums (including this very writer’s), and you should see one constant on those lists- and it’s not Metallica & Lou Reed’s horribly executed “Lulu” album. One album [...]

Interview w/ Jeremy DePoyster of The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada are sure to pack the Royal Oak Theater this Saturday night.

The Devil Wears Prada were one of those bands that early on in their career, they were on every metal tour you could think of. The Dayton, Ohio band spent more time on the road each year than [...]

Interview w/ Dave Rosen of The Parlor Mob

The Parlor Mob plays a free show at the Pike Room this Friday.

The guys in the New Jersey based band The Parlor Mob know all too well about the downside of the music industry over the past several years. With the band signed to Capitol Records and a merger between a [...]

Interview w/ Jeff Rains of Rains

Jeff Rains brings his band to open up for Five Finger Death Punch Friday in Plymouth.

This Christmas, the guys in the band Rains might want to send a thank you note to the guys in Rev Theory. Early in November, the band behind the hits “Hell Yeah” and “Justice” had a unfortunate [...]

Interview w/ Popa Chubby

Popa Chubby brings his widely diverse blues to Callahan's up in Auburn Hills tomorrow night.

After playing legendary punk clubs like New York’s CBGB’s back in the late 70’s and early 80’s, Ted Horowitz was growing tired of playing rock clubs and not getting his true passion out. But in 1990, the [...]

Interview w/ Rafa Martinez of Black Cobra

Black Cobra brings the sludge opening for Kyuss Lives this Saturday at the Crofoot.

One of the most thunderously sounding metal records is coming straight outta San Francisco, as the duo known as Black Cobra released their big sounding new album, “Invernal”. The album, a mixture of sludge, doom and stoner metal [...]

Interview w/ Scott Lewis of Carnifex

Carnifex unleashes far more than "Nothing" at Harpo's this Saturday.

When lead singer Scott Lewis of the San Diego based death metal band Carnifex discusses the negative undertones in the band’s music, you have to believe it. With album titles like “The Diseased and The Poisoned” and the latest album, “Until I [...]

Interview w/ Boots Marjanovic of MicLordz and Sauce Funky

Boots and the MicLordz hit the Clem for a free show with Critical Bill Thanksgiving night.

Even though Windsor, Ontario is technically in the Great White North, it serves truly as an eastern suburb of Detroit (and no, I’m not “calling it South Detroit” like that nauseating Journey song that I will [...]

Interview w/ Rollum Haas of The Features

The Features might or might not bring their guns to the Pike Room on Saturday.

Most fans of rock music wouldn’t think of Nashville being one of the new bastions of rock music, but the Music City has been gaining far more attention for it’s rock scene versus the country music that [...]