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Tin Ear Tuesday – Xmas Fats
As promised, here’s your second dose of all things otherwise and/or occasionally sonically awesome for the inevitable lulls in familial obligations and tense theological football debates fired off from secret eggnog recipes and wedged in between your umpteenth “Thanks for the socks, ma but I’m not fat anymore.” We think...
Tin Ear Tuesday – Holiday Cocktail Hour
Man, I love me some fucking Christmas. I do. It’s the season for pleasin’ and love and light and gifts and shit and if I wasn’t so burned out from 2011 being one of the most arduous years of my (not so very) young life this new apartment of mine...
Top 25 Albums of 2011
So here it is the collective voting of all our staff, every staffer counted equal. 2011's theme is "oh man there is no logical tie between any of these bands how the hell are we going to put a nice little bow on it?" Please enjoy...
Tape Wyrm’s Top 11 Metal Albums of 2011
It has been a wonderful year for metal. Actually any year is good when you sit down and dedicate a large portion of your time to new releases. I am always excited for the end of the year as it brings merriment, celebration and a chance to mercilessly nitpick each...
Tin Ear Tuesday – Late Nude Menace
My back hurts and both my hands are bleeding. The dogs are getting their wet all over my boxes and I forgot to grab a sixer before I started in with this evening’s manual labor so it looks like I’ll be laying down with the last of my good goddamn...
Tin Ear Tuesday – BOOSH! Parade
Oh, man. You really want to hear about it? Nah, you don’t. Not really. Buy me a beer some time and I’ll let you bask in some First World Malmsteen FURY! But right now. Right here. Half naked and wrapped in the delicate, lingering wafts of cigarettes and sex it’s...
Tape Wyrm XIV: Give Thanks To Stoner Doom
Some of you maybe wondering why I have waited until Thanksgiving to talk about stoner doom. As far as holidays go, Thanksgiving doesn’t really have an adorned soundtrack nor is it attached to any particular style of metal. This is a fact which needs correcting. Maybe the mashed potatoes need...
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011 – Day 3
Words and Photos by Charles Nickes. I stumble out of the Pop Off Shack™ with my first hangover of the trip (shocking, I know) just in time to watch an armadillo scurry across the yard. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen one of those critters alive and debate catching...
