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No Rest For The Wicked: Converge Celebrates 35 Years And Fiercest Record Yet With Love Is Not Enough

You may not know this about us but we don’t review anything we don’t dig in these pages. We tried that before and found we simply don’t enjoy dedicating an inordinate amount of time to slamming something we most likely won’t listen to beyond preparing a post. We also tend to gush. A lot. And […]

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Next Up! The Rock And Roll Fables Guide To 26 Artists, 26 New Works Of Art. In 2026.

We do this to ourselves every year! When will we learn?!?! The “this” in question is procrastinate which ALWAYS results in a) releases we initially put on here being irrelevant and b) new releases coming to light and oftentimes resulting in some list restructuring. Regarding this particular post, there were [...]

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SkyTigers Combine All The Heavy Things (Punk! Thrash! Hardcore! METAL!) For The Chaotic Catharsis Of …Injustice For All

What are they putting in the Lowell water??? If we don’t say it enough already, what a scene! And the latest release from SkyTigers will not do anything to dissuade the constant glaze out of us at least as they deliver a ferocious new LP that’s concise, crushing and oddly [...]

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KMFDM Rediscover Their Inner Industrial, Deliver Dynamic 24th LP ENEMY

Never count KMFDM out, okay? For example, even as longtime fans we found ourselves a tad wary when it came to the upcoming ENEMY release as that usual excitement that accompanied an unexpected announcement of new music from one of our favorite Electro/Industrial artists yielded nothing more than a whimper [...]

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Singles! Cape Crush, “Calm & Delivered”

We just made room in two separate spots in our just released 2026 preview post (Didja miss it? Because it’s right here if ya did!) for Cape Crush-related releases so we just had to make sure we put our money where our mouth is especially since we had such high [...]

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Singles! Michelle Forziati, “Once More”

In this day and age, it’s truly a nice thing when an artist comes along that doesn’t sound like anything currently out in the world. And that’s definitely Michelle Forziati who, on new single “Once More”, stretches her musical chops even more by pushing that distinct voice in vibrant new [...]

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Future Finds: The Rock And Roll Fables Guide To (Some Of) What’s On The Way Locally In 2026

Of the four major/mega end of the year lists we put together (2 separate 2025 recaps/2 separate 2026 previews), the local 2026 one is hand’s down the easiest. Or so we thought. We don’t do rankings here and it’s way more loose but, par for course with our batting average [...]

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