Alternative Rock Archives

Interview – Chloe Chaidez of KITTEN & Nasty Cherry

CrypticRockCrypticRockFebruary 6, 2020

Growing up in a house where music ruled, Chloe Chaidez quickly followed her own Rock-n-Roll dreams while still an adolescence. Putting together her first band at the age of 10, by 15 she would find her comfort zone when forming KITTEN, a band which is ... Read More

Interview – Marc Cohn

CrypticRockCrypticRockFebruary 4, 2020

Back in 1991, the world was introduced to “Waking in Memphis,” a song that many consider a bold stamp within the Great American Songbook. A Top 40 Hit, it earned a Grammy nomination for song of the year in 1992 while bringing home talented Singer-Songwriter ... Read More

Nada Surf – Never Not Together (Album Review)

Nina MendeNina MendeFebruary 3, 2020

New York City based Alternative Rock band Nada Surf is back with Never Not Together, their first album of new music since 2016’s You Know Who You Are. Releasing their live album Peaceful Ghosts later that same year, Never Not Together marks their ninth studio ... Read More

Stone Temple Pilots – Perdida (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaFebruary 3, 2020

One of the most successful bands to ever come out of the Grunge era in the early 1990s was Stone Temple Pilots, alongside the usual heavyweights—Nirvana (“Come as You Are”) Pearl Jam (“Even Flow”), Alice in Chains (“Man in the Box”), and Soundgarden (“Outshined”). Formed ... Read More

Drive-By Truckers – The Unraveling (Album Review)

Adrian BreemanAdrian BreemanJanuary 31, 2020

It has been almost four years since American Band, the previous effort by the Athens, Georgia-based Drive-By Truckers. That in mind, they have picked perhaps the most clamorous time in recent memory to work on The Unraveling, due out January 31st through ATO. A band ... Read More

The Lightning Seeds – Cloudcuckooland Turns 30

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaJanuary 29, 2020

Even before starting this proper band of his, Ian Broudie—the musical genius behind The Lightning Seeds—was already a luminary in the English Alternative music scene. Born on August 4, 1958, in Liverpool, England, Broudie was a member of the short-lived but influential groups Big in ... Read More

Alternative Rock

Interview – Chloe Chaidez of KITTEN & Nasty Cherry

Interview – Marc Cohn

Nada Surf – Never Not Together (Album Review)

Stone Temple Pilots – Perdida (Album Review)

Drive-By Truckers – The Unraveling (Album Review)

The Lightning Seeds – Cloudcuckooland Turns 30

Interview – Chloe Chaidez of KITTEN & Nasty Cherry

Interview – Marc Cohn

Nada Surf – Never Not Together (Album Review)

Stone Temple Pilots – Perdida (Album Review)

Drive-By Truckers – The Unraveling (Album Review)

The Lightning Seeds – Cloudcuckooland Turns 30

This Week in Horror Movie History – The House on Sorority Row (1983)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Scanners (1981)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Black Christmas (1974)

Interview – Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s

Interview – Chuck Russell

Interview – Kevin Lewis, Mena Suvari, Sarah Grey, & Alexis Knapp Talk The Accursed

Blaze Bayley – Circle of Stone (Album Review)

Darkest Hour – Perpetual | Terminal (Album Review)

Amaranthe – The Catalyst (Album Review)