Nick Oliveri Announces Acoustic European Tour Dates
As he continues to support the solo album Leave Me Alone (streamed here) released under the moniker of Nick Oliveri and the Uncontrollable, the persistently raucous Oliveri is set to embark in July on...
View ArticleTomorrow’s Dream: 200+ of 2017’s Most Anticipated Releases
Looks like it’s going to be another busy 12 months ahead. It’s been a busy better-part-of-a-month already, so that stands to reason, but you should know that of the several years now that I’ve done...
View ArticleQueens of the Stone Age Announce New Album Villains
Yesterday, Queens of the Stone Age started the process of teasing the release of their next album by putting up a minute-long YouTube clip in which a manipulated version of frontman Josh Homme‘s voice...
View ArticleQueens of the Stone Age Post Video for “The Way You Used to Do”
As a people, a collective and a universe constantly in flux, we’re inching closer to the Aug. 25 official release date of Queens of the Stone Age‘s new album, Villains, on Matador Records. The record,...
View ArticleQueens of the Stone Age, Villains: Casting Roles
Who are the rockstars of our age? Whither thou the dearly departed Bowies, the Lemmys, the Frank Zappas and the Led Zeppelins of modernity who might otherwise be teaching the next up and coming...
View ArticleReview & Full Stream: Nick Oliveri, N.O. Hits at All, Vol. 3
[Click play above to stream Nick Oliveri’s N.O. Hits at All, Vol. 3 in its entirety. CD/LP out Oct. 20 via Heavy Psych Sounds.] As he informs in screaming fashion on the penultimate “Country as Fuck,”...
View ArticleThe Obelisk Presents: THE TOP 30 ALBUMS OF 2017
Please note: This post is not culled in any way from the Year-End Poll, which is ongoing. If you haven’t yet contributed your favorites of 2017 to that, please do. — We’re almost at the finish line...
View ArticleFriday Full-Length: Various Artists, Burn One Up: Music for Stoners
Various Artists, Burn One Up: Music for Stoners (1997) 21 years ago, Roadrunner Records gathered together 15 bands on one compact disc, slapped a picture of an 18-wheeler truck in the desert on the...
View ArticleThe Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio Playlist: Episode 22 (Kyuss Family Tree Special)
As of this writing, I just finished cutting the voice tracks for this episode of The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio, which is centered around the Kyuss family tree. No, it’s not the entire thing — how...
View ArticleFriday Full-Length: Queens of the Stone Age, …Like Clockwork
The songs. It’s the songs. There’s next to no mystery to it. In 2013, when Queens of the Stone Age released …Like Clockwork (review here), it was following a six-year absence, which was the longest of...
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