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The hard-hitting song titled after the band Maxx12 itself opens up the 16 track wonderfully packaged eponymous CD, Maxx12.  Lead vocalist Albert Mendez has a voice that reaches into the Brad Delp/Steve Perry/Lou Gramm heights, and he shows it off well on the quick two minutes and thirty-eight seconds of the opening tune.    The album itself crosses hard rock...

This writer knows Gregg Turner from Back Door Magazine, but a press release states he is also a “veteran of the Angry Samoans & New Mexico’s garage-rockin Blood Drained Cows.” What you get on the 11 tracks on Gregg Turner Plays the Hits is another dimension tribute to the Velvet Underground and Modern Lovers, the Lovers being, of...

This morning on the Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM satellite radio, the "Queen of Anal", Adriana Chechik, stopped by the studio for a quick chat. Now, you've probably heard plenty of porn stars call themselves the queen of anal... but Adriana is the real deal. How real? Try three at the same time real! Adriana was incredibly...

The first Purge (2013) had an intriguing (albeit patently ridiculous) premise: what if all crime were legal for one annual 12-hour period? As that movie and its sequel, The Purge: Anarchy, would have it, this tradition has reduced all crime for the rest of the year and unemployment to negligible levels. It is never clear how those...

Guitar pickups haven't changed a great deal in terms of their overall design throughout the years. A magnet wrapped with copper wire, then set into a casing allowing for mounting into your instrument and some minor adjustments is the basis of pickup design. There have been some various ideas and improvements, (such as active pickup models) and manufacturers have found a variety of...

IK Multimedia, the global technology leader in mobile apps and accessories, today announced it's shipping iRig Mic HD, the first mobile digital microphone for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac and PC. The sequel to IK's popular iRig Mic, iRig Mic HD is the perfect tool for singers, podcasters, online radio broadcasters, journalists, videographers, home studio enthusiasts and anyone else who...

The Gaming Podcast is back after three weeks of a forced hiatus as one former host has left the podcast for good. Otherwise, some of the news items are old, some are new, in this long episode. There’s no Gaming Flashback or Gaming History, but plenty of news, including: Activision won’t launch an EA Access-style program anytime soon, Disney Interactive...

With the pop-punk scene growing at a rapid rate, many bands included in that genre tend to strive for a certain kind of youthfulness that represents the demographic of their listeners. Some bands do it well, others not so much. Baltimore’s 3PM is one of those bands that indeed does it well. Their sophomore album Slow Me Down (produced by...

By this point in the summer I felt that I had a firm grasp on what to expect at music festivals. There was the friendly “everybody love everybody” atmosphere at Boston Calling and the teen angst rebellious atmosphere at the Vans Warped Tour. So when I arrived at Mayhem Fest in Mansfield, MA; I felt like I knew what...

Guardians of the Galaxy is a great movie, and is important because the relatively unknown characters allow the filmmakers at Marvel and Disney  to stretch without endangering their pride and joy personalities from other properties: Mr. Fantastic, Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, Peter Parker, Professor X and Marvel’s (not Disney’s, not yet…) other flagship characters. In Guardians you’ll find  Zoe Saldana...