Archive for the ‘Band of the Week’ Category
August, 2010
Barn Burner
By MaryAnn Bayer
Barnburner: barn·burn·er bärn bûr n r
n. Informal. An extremely impressive event or successful outcome.
Impressive indeed. Hailing from Canada or Canadia if I’m drunk, Barn Burner is my perfect summer metal band. Full of Twin Guitar slayings AND fuzzy garage distortion, the perfectly titled ‘Bangers’ (or “Bangahs” if your me and from Massachusetts) re-released [...]
Hellbent For Cooking
By MaryAnn Bayer
This weeks band of the week isn’t a band at all. It’s a book. Hellbent For Cooking by Annick “Morbid Chef” Giroux. Finally a book intermingling my two favorite things: Food and Heavy Metal. Hellbent was published by Bazillion Points, founded by Ian Christe, author of “Sound of the Beast” and host of [...]
Early Man
By MaryAnn Bayer
In 1987, I discovered Heavy Metal. I was 12 or 13, in 8th grade and had a Best Friend named Gina. Lots of people at school hated Gina, partly because she beat up a girl on her first day of school, but mostly, it was because she was metal. Gina, with her Megadeth [...]
July, 2010
Black Helicopter
By MaryAnn Bayer
Black Helicopter are curmudgeons. Indie Rock needs more stubborn people with unwavering ideas. Perhaps then I would listen to more indie rock. As it stands the genre seems filled with wimpy boys and waify chicks doing Fleetwood Mac covers who would be just as happy if they were say, modeling. I’ll pass [...]
Tinsel Teeth
By MaryAnn Bayer
Remember the movie The Accused? Remember the scene in the beginning where Jodi Foster is running out of a bar after just having been brutally gang-raped on a pinball table? In the scene, she is running, screaming, bloodied panties around her ankles, tank top torn wide open, face swollen, bruised and bloodied, arms [...]
