A new study by the Center for Musical Defeatism has confirmed what many suspected: watching a child under 10 flawlessly perform a drum solo or rip through “Eruption” causes irreversible damage to adult motivation. According to the data, 87% of adults who had recently picked up an instrument quit within 72 hours of seeing a […]
By Spinfork Staff | Score: 7.8 It’s been twenty years since Staind’s gravelly confessional “It’s Been Awhile” first saturated the airwaves with its particular brand of regret-soaked masculinity. And while critics dismissed it as angsty radio rock at the time, a reexamination reveals something much rawer, much sadder, and, dare we say—much more honest than […]
At first, I thought it was just a lighting rig. Then I realized Billy had lifted off the stage and was slowly rotating like a rotisserie chicken. He made eye contact with me and said, “This one’s for the lonely molecules.” No one else heard it. Of course they didn’t. He was speaking through the fog machine
Filed under: Tour Fog, Legal Gray Areas, and Emotional Leather. It was 2005 or 1999. Honestly, it doesn’t matter. Time melted that night like the ice in Lemmy’s Jack & Coke. What matters is this: We got too high with Lemmy Kilmister, and by the end of it, he looked us in the eyes and […]