"I want to arrive and kick the shit out of people" - Spirit Adrift's Nate Garrett on the band's rising popularity and the importance of Stranger Things

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.

Jordan Olds’ great Two Minutes To Late Night video series has brought together a whole lot of heavy musicians to play all-star covers of classic songs, both of the heavy and non-heavy variety. Since the series started in the early pandemic era, most of those Two Minutes To Late Night covers have shown up on Monday mornings. But in rece...

Last week, Jordan Olds’ great weekly video series Two Minutes To Late Night, one of the great shining lights of the quarantine era, featured Marissa Nadler leading a band of metal all-stars through a version of Journey’s “Of A Lifetime.” This week, Two Minutes To Late Night salutes another titan of &#8...

Lana Del Rey got it before the rest of us did. When Del Rey first showed up on the collective radar, smack in the exact middle of the Obama era, she came off as an actress giving life to a great gimmick --- a film-noir starlet adrift in time, floating on Lynchian breezes and midday…