Less than a week before Valentine’s Day in 2012, my girlfriend and I found out that we were going to be having a baby. A couple days later we went to San Francisco to see Anthony Green and The Dear Hunter which marked our daughter’s first concert (technically). She was just a tiny little near-formless […]
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Exclusive Track-By-Track: The Spacepimps – ‘Eternal Boy’
July 3rd, 2013 
James Shotwell Yesterday, The Spacepimps blessed fans around the world with the release of the crazy good new album, Eternal Boy, and today the guys have partnered with UTG to offer an in depth look at the stories behind their latest efforts. I cannot recall where I was the first time I heard The Spacepimps, but I’m sure […]
Case Snedecor & Issues Post Statements On His Departure
May 29th, 2013 Kriston McConnell As promised, both Issues and Case Snedecor have posted official statements on his departure from the band. In case you missed it, a few days ago Case announced that he had parted ways with the band, and stated he as well as Issues would be posting statements on the situation later this week. To read […]
Arsonists Get All The Girls to Release New Album, ‘Listen to the Color’
May 16th, 2013 Brian Leak Arsonists Get All The Girls are one of my all-time favorite bands. I’ll never forget the first time I heard “Scobra vs. Cupcake: Battle of the Bulge” and completely lost my shit. At the time, I had never heard anything quite like it or the entirety of Hits From The Bow. This is one of […]
Randy Blythe Recorded A New Song With Corrosion Of Conformity And Dave Grohl
May 10th, 2013 Grant Trimboli Lamb Of God‘s Randy Blythe has been hard at work on new songs with some ground-breaking artists in the past weeks. Blythe recently updated his Instagram with a picture of himself and Corrosion Of Conformity members Mike Dean and Reed Mullin. He informs us that both Mike and Reed’s new project Teenage Time Killer has […]
VIDEO: Lil Wayne Disses NBA And The Miami Heat, Refers To Himself As “New Pac” While On Stage
February 18th, 2013 Dayton O'Connor It’s hate on the NBA and the Miami Heat day and Lil Wayne is invited. Weezy isn’t afraid to take on the world, or at least a couple of really tall professional athletes. While on stage in Houston at a birthday celebration for rapper/mentor Birdman (brought to you by Beats By Dre), Wayne stated that he […]
UTG INTERVIEW: Glass Casket
July 30th, 2012 Brian Leak Oh, Glass Casket! How we miss thee! It’s been over half a decade since the last release from the deathcore collective and I, along with many fans, eagerly await the day Glass Casket members can take enough time from their respective projects to complete a new album and give us the goods we’ve been waiting […]
Cro-Mags Show Canceled Due To Former Member Stabbing and Biting Band
July 7th, 2012 Jacob Tender This is a crazy, f*cked up world we live in. I’m not sure if it’s the heat messing with everyone’s heads or what, but geez people… where is the love? Furthering news coverage of the crazy’s gone violent trend (bath salts are bad kids), today we’ve discovered that Harley Flanagan (former bassist/vocalist and founder) of the […]
REVIEW: Secrets – The Ascent
January 18th, 2012 James Shotwell Artist: Secrets Album: The Ascent Genre: Post-hardcore/screamo Label: Velocity/Rise Records Considering they apparently formed just over a year ago, San Diego five-piece Secrets display an impressive togetherness and articulate sound on this debut album. The Ascent is a fiery and memorable listen, ably combining a heavy, ferocious guitar sound with a lighter touch. It […]
MUSIC VIDEO: Sean Paul – She Doesn’t Mind
November 25th, 2011 Grant Trimboli Too often we encounter those terrible scenarios at the airport with angry tourists, lost baggage and tons of pushing and shoving. In Sean Paul‘s case, in his new music video for the single “She Doesn’t Mind,” he shows us how he usually makes his trips look. Surrounded by hoards of beautiful models, posing as security […]
REVIEW: Everlast – Songs Of The Ungrateful Living
November 11th, 2011 James Shotwell Artist: Everlast Album: Songs Of The Ungrateful Living Genre: Country Label: Martyr Inc. Records Recently, the world’s population supposedly passed the 7 billion person mark. Now of course, this is a very sensationalized event, the powers that be obviously have no way of knowing this for sure, there are many countries out there that don’t […]
REVIEW: Trapped Under Ice – Big Kiss Goodnight
October 20th, 2011 James Shotwell Artist: Trapped Under Ice Album: Big Kiss Goodnight Genre: Hardcore Label: Good Fight Music Music’s vernacular evolutions on a generation to generation basis is unavoidable but the modern day hardcore scene has suffered from extreme image transformations as each band is trying to look tougher and sound tougher than the last. The race to have tighter […]