"The Power of Love" came out in 1985, appearing in the culture-kicking time travel epic Back to the Future, and extending Huey Lewis' multi-platinum run for a good long time. Huey's third album, Sports, had scorched the airwaves and resurrected the career of a band that had started strong but ...

It's a hell of a thing to be haunted by anyone, much less someone who has not yet passed. Welcome to my world. I'm being haunted by someone who still walks the earth and the experience is treating my serenity much the same way a food processor treats a tomato. It's all ...

In a recent edition of Metal Hammer, there's a fantastic piece on Def Leppard in which singer Joe Elliott discussed Def Leppard's return to Donnington for 2009's Download concert, saying, "You're not around for 34 years, headlining a big festival like this, if you're not a fucking good band." Of course, ...

Metalheads know that the best thing about heavy metal is that the rules don’t apply to it. While classic rock is shackled with commercial measurements that are used to determine if an album is successful or not, metal not only ignores those formulas but its constant shifts make it impossible ...

Another musician dead. Another round of social media speculation. Another round of people lamenting the perils of drugs and rock and roll excess. Another round of keyboard warriors saying the musician sucked. Another round of fans defending their artist in death. Another round of statements, coroners reports, police spokesmen and press releases. Another round of other ...

This guy was a complete fucking lunatic. His name was Doug* and he worked on the same floor as I in 2003, when I was in the IT department of a Boston biotechnology company. He was one of those guys who felt perfectly comfortable approaching total strangers and engaging them in ...

My friend Brett* turned me on to this zesty little iPhone app that takes ridiculously artsy fartsy pictures that look cool, but more importantly, that make you look cool.   The key to a picture like this is finding a way to show it to people without looking like a complete tool. ...

In the summer of 2006, I was living in a little beach cottage in La Jolla, just a couple blocks away from the ocean. Really quiet little neighborhood with the bedroom off in the back of the house. My two dogs would sleep on the bed with me and each ...

While Norway reels from the senseless and incomprehensible massacre that occurred there on July 22, 2011, two of music's most opinionated front men have engaged in a very public battle to see who can sound like a bigger horse's ass. Firing the first shots were black metal group Burzum's Varg Vikernes, ...

Isn't this like sending someone into a parking lot full of broken glass and asking them to identify their least favorite shard? I tend to loathe songs that sound like they're trying too hard, especially ones that seem to bask in their own cleverness. Or when a song is shameless in ...