CMJ Music Marathon 2015: The week in metal

This week marks the annual CMJ Music Marathon, an annual convention and music festival that takes place in New York centered around college radio. While radio can get ignored by some in the face of so many other entertainment options, there are still about 200 radio...

Metal By Numbers 6/25: The charts are luminous

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. You know, doing this column sometimes feels like being a parent (without the vomit and the shitting). An album is announced by a band you like or some up and comer...

Metal By Numbers 6/18: Tremonti on top

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Do you think more people were excited for the new Tremonti album because of Creed or because of Alter Bridge? Or were they just falling over the fact that Wolfgang...

Metal By Numbers 6/11: Out of the Darkness

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Right, so, elephant in the room: there was no MBN last week. Why? Would you believe…bizarre gardening accident in which I lost all of my fingers that have since...

Goatsnake pay a visit to grandpa jones

The most recent material from Goatsnake was their 2004 EP, Trampled Under Hoof, so it’s been a real treat to hear two new songs in recent weeks; “Black Age Blues” and “Elevated Man.” Now the band has unleashed another brand new track on...