Daniel Robichaud

Top 25 Albums of 2012

  Happy New Year, everybody! Just like that, 2012 goes right out the window. However, as we look forward to a brand new year, we mustn’t forget the musical beauty

Top 10 Metal Albums of 2012

  It’s been a damn good year for heavy metal. Here’s a list of what I think are the ten best slabs of metal to come out this year. Horns

Top 5 Hot Shows This Week

1. Alexisonfire Farewell Tour with Moneen Monday, December 17 at Pacific Coliseum Alexisonfire is now retro? What? Yup, it’s true. Their eponymous 2002 debut has crossed the decade mark. It

Top 5 Hot Shows This Week

1. Pink Mountaintops with Sex Church and The Ford Pier Vengeance Trio Saturday, December 15 at the Waldorf Hotel presented by Sealed With a Kiss Stephen McBean brings his Pink

This Week’s Hot Shows

The Lumineers with guests December 3 at the Vogue Theatre presented by 102.7 The Peak and Sealed with a Kiss Denver, Colorado trio The Lumineers roll into town on Monday

Death Grips and Does Not Let Go

I managed to convince a few buddies to come along to the Death Grips show last Friday based on the following thin, grapevine background info I provided them with: “Epic

Show of the Year?

You rarely see the kind of balanced fan representation that was on display last Friday at the Commodore. What I mean is, when The Ballantynes streamed onto the stage at

This Week’s Hot Shows

Pete Tong with Eats Everything November 26 at Caprice Nightclub presented by Blueprint Events From breaking new ground in electronic music as an artist and producer to hosting his own

This Week’s Hot Shows

Cold Specks November 21 at St. James Hall Al Spx aka Cold Specks is in town on Wednesday to share her folk and gospel-infused “doom soul”. Now based in London,

Further Down the Bison Hole

A deep, dirty love of the riff is one of the self-professed defining characteristics of the beast known as Bison b.c. While the sludge quartet has never shied away from

Innovators Gonna Innovate

From his first official splash onto the music scene in 2006 as part of the duo B.S.O.D. (“blue screen of death”) with Nine Inch Nails producer Steve Duda, to his