Author Shayan Shirkhodai

Opening with lo-fi sound effects broken by a snappy snare drum and crunchy, bright guitar riff, Social Cues (released April 19, 2019) begins with a weird, alt-rock jam entitled “Broken Boy” that perfectly s...

Twenty-five years ago, on April 5, 1994, the artistic world lost one of its most unique figures, Kurt Cobain. At only 27 years old, the Nirvana frontman’s death has left as much of a void today as it did in t...

After more than 10 long years of waiting, fans of the Raconteurs can finally rejoice. Two singles, “Sunday Driver” and “Now That You’re Gone,” were dropped on December 19, 2018, and the band has final...

No, you are not reading that title wrong — you can re-read it all you want, but the words will not be changing. The Red Hot Chili Peppers — world-renowned funk-rock legends who have sold over 80 million alb...

“Beautiful and creepy” — these adjectives uttered straight from the mouth of singer (and rhythm guitarist) James Hetfield mid-performance were the perfect words to describe Metallica’s newest album, Hel...

Any sort of rock music, as a whole, has been kicked out of the mainstream since Nirvana’s unfortunate collapse in the mid 90s. Afterwards, few rock bands have consistently topped charts and dominated mainstre...

Currently on a twentieth anniversary tour of their breakthrough album Dizzy Up The Girl (1998), the Goo Goo Dolls stopped by the Fillmore and reminded the entire audience that good live music never ages. Every ...

“I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room / How much difference does it make?” This helplessness from the song "Indifference" epitomized early 90s music found few better poster boys than Eddie Ved...

On October 2, 2017, the world lost Tom Petty; typing these words out one year later, this simple fact of life still shocks me now as much as it did the day I found out about his death. Whether it was his work a...

Lukas Nelson remains one of the few singers on this planet whose voice couples a powerful growl with an unignorable natural vibrato… and he makes sure to show it off! Along with his band, Promise of the Real,...

Imagine if James Brown and Steel Pulse had eight baby boys. Those boys would eventually become the men behind the funk group from Humboldt County, Diggin’ Dirt. Though they formed in 2011, Diggin’ Dirt rele...

“You people are totally absurd”: Jack White tells us how he really feels all throughout his new album, Boarding House Reach (2018). The record covers a wide variety of social critiques and strangely, but f...

Roger Daltrey may have gotten older, but his voice has not aged one bit. The 74-year-young frontman of infamous British rock band, The Who, proved to the Fox Theater that age is nothing more than a number. Welc...

Attention all angsty people: this piece is for you. There has been a drought of truly invigorating angry music in the 21st century — or at least it seems this way because none of it surfaces beyond the underg...

Flashy lights, double-neck guitars, drum solos, and an incredible frontman — Queens of the Stone Age delivered on all these fronts (and more) when rocking out at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium this past Th...