Sons of Apollo, the prog rock super group featuring Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian from Dream Theater, former Guns N Roses lead guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, Bass-God Billy Sheehan, who has been in just about everything, and Jeff Scott Soto, best known as Yngwie Malmsteen's first lead singer, ...

When Ministry’s new album AmeriKKKant was released on March 9th, fans around the globe rejoiced. Not only was this the album we had all been waiting for since November 2016, and their first release in 5 years, but it signaled another tour. A tour which we all feared would never come, ...

King’s X rocked Vamp’d on Friday, April 27, 2018, with local act Bad Sister. King’s X is a criminally underrated group that never quite got the proper mainstream recognition, despite a powerful sound courtesy of three multi-talented members: Bassist/vocalist Doug Pinnick, drummer Jerry Gaskill, and guitarist Ty Tabor. I’d never ...

JD & the Straight Shot open for the legendary Doobie Brothers,  April 7,2018 at The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.   I have to mention that as beautiful as the Cosmopolitan is, it was extremely confusing. I hadn't ever been to this relatively new hotel (in comparison to ...

John 5. I first heard of him in our mutual hometown of Detroit. Granted, he grew up in a ritzy part of town near where my godfather lived (Grosse Point), whereas I grew up in middle-class Warren, but we were both Greater Detroit residents nonetheless. One evening a guy at ...