Yes, it’s that time of year again. Providence Sound Session will be taking the Renaissance City by storm now through Saturday July 12th. If you’ve never caught it, Sound Session is a “genre-defying” music, arts and culture festival boasting a lineup of international artists and featuring every kind of music you can possibly imagine, as […]

Sometimes, after a long, stress-filled week, you just need to go somewhere dark and cave-like, order a strong drink, and listen to some live, unrefined aggression, preferably while standing close enough to the amps that you can feel the bass vibrate in your sternum.
When those moments strike, you will be lucky if SweatLodge happens […]

“We all have undiagnosed ADD.”

Photo by Ara Ghajanian

So says Justin Abene, bassist for Ebu Gogo. It’s almost midnight on Sunday, May 18th, and the band has just finished playing a set at Club Hell. I am interviewing them, or trying to. It’s a bit like herding cats.

If you’ve heard Ebu Gogo, you probably aren’t […]

Where were you when you first heard metal?
 
For me, it was the living room of a babysitter’s house in 1989, watching Metallica’s first video, “One,” on MTV. It gave me nightmares. At the age of eight, I was not yet ready to appreciate what I’d seen and heard. It was too intense, too raw, […]