It’s been a good while, but I think it’s safe to say that the hellish hangover we’ve all been stumbling around with since the one-off Led Zeppelin reunion show at the end of last year has finally worn off. We’ve shaken off the dross, wiped the mucus from our eyelids, brushed our teeth, and we’ve stepped back out into the bright shining lights of the present and what it brings of the future. Ah…too early? Is it too early to go jumping back out into the street, to raise hell, to conjure up mor
A rainy evening in Tampa couldn’t put out the metal fire at the Brass Mug on Wednesday, July 1. I caught the last two bands of the evening, Seventh Rule Records labelmates Light Yourself on Fire (Tampa) and Wetnurse (NYC). Light Yourself on Fire Sadly, Scrog elected not to play a reunion show on this night. Luckily, Light Yourself on Fire, Tampa’s metalcore darlings, stepped in. Read more LYOF commentary from their recent show at New World Brewery. Light Yourself on
Back in the day, a Cornbread Mafia show was some dangerous fun — an orgy of pills, alcohol and rock 'n' roll that tested your limits. Singer Scott Mertz frequently got naked, and blood was occasionally spilled. In the 1990s, this was called a good night out. Catch their reunion show.