One Track Mind: David Lee Roth, “Tobacco Road” from Eat ‘Em and Smile (1986)
It’s corny and completely over the top, but that’s what I want from Dave.
Articles by: Fred Phillips
1980s ‘Hair Ballads’ That Don’t Suck: Gimme Five
I bristle when folks dismiss everything from this era as garbage.
Something Else! sneak peek: Exodus featuring Kirk Hammett, “Salt the Wound” (2014)
Even without Hammett, this would have been solid, if unspectacular.
Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker, the Mavericks, LeAnn Rimes + others – Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute to Motley Crue (2014)
There’s not nearly enough “outlaw” here to justify the name of this album.
Dead Earth Politics – The Queen of Steel EP (2014)
They had me at “Redneck Dragonslayer.”
Skid Row – Rise of the Damnation Army: United World Rebellion, Chapter 2 (2014)
It seems, finally, that Skid Row has found its way again.
Alestorm – ‘Sunset on the Golden Age’ (2014)
Alestorm honed their cutlasses to a razor-sharp point on ‘Sunset on the Golden Age.’
Buckcherry – F**k EP (2014)
In another time, this “concept” might have been shocking. Not anymore.
WTF Wednesdays: Betraying the Martyrs, “Let It Go” from Phantom (2014)
A death-metal version of the signature song from Disney’s ‘Frozen’? Yep.
Forgotten series: Warlock – Triumph and Agony (1987)
It was fast, heavy — and on occasion, gnarly and ugly, as metal should be.
