Jeromeoh2301Somewhere over the past five years, Nickelback was deemed the unofficial "worst band in the world," usurping Creed as the rock snob's go-to reference for "awful."
How did this happen?
To date, the British Columbian quartet has sold close to 20 million albums, sell out arenas in every city, and have enjoyed massive radio play since first hitting the public's ears with 2001's "How You Remind Me." From what we can tell, they have written every bit of their six chart-topping
Photos by Craig HlavatyAftermath is of the mind that the best way to tackle something that is reviled or feared is to confront it head on. Like global terrorism, street gangs, or gingivitis, you must take it on at its source, even if doing so makes you feel insecure, vulnerable or wholly foolish. Maybe it's the military in us that pushes us to attempt things that others would cower at. Or maybe it's our continual drinking.
For those reasons, and many others, Aftermath embedded ourselves i
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Young Problemz, a self-described "supergroup" of local rap talent, joined Mike Jones Monday evening at the Arena Theatre, and the group's "Boi" was one of the high points, if not the high point of the night.
The five Houston-bred performers - Chyco, Just-O, JM, J Yung and Star Struck - have talent. A lot. After a recent signing with Warner Bros/Asylum Records, the group seems to be at the breakthrough point.
"We went from no shows to opening up for Mike Jones," Star Struck s
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down To Georgia." The song, which climbed all the way to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and lives on today as a "boss battle" in Guitar Hero 3, made its first appearance on the group's 1979 album Million Mile Reflections.It's actually hard for us to believe that the song is 30 years old, since it always seemed way older. Daniels and his band - who appear at the "Sean Hannity Freedom Concert" August 1 a
Just as none of us will ever forget where we were the morning of September 11, 2001, Rocks Off will never forget what he was listening to most of the day of the terrorist attacks. Sadly, he admits it was System of A Down's Toxicity, which had come out just the week before. For us the album conveyed the same sense of hysteria that we would see that whole day, the rest of the week, the year, and for almost a decade later.
Don't hate, we were also in a deep Lou Reed trench at the moment (stupid gi
