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ALBUM REVIEW: Onelinedrawing – Rainbowmachine

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Far was one of the most underrated bands of the 90s, so this is the ghost that will forever haunt the solo work of Jonah Matranga, the band’s former singer.  With Onelinedrawing’s new album RAINBOWMACHINE (Iodine Recordings), it is still hard not to gravitate towards the moments that sound like his old band. Is this fair? No, but life is not fair, and he raised the bar for himself so high with Far that it’s hard to give his other work much of a chance. Let’s try and listen to this objectively. Continue reading →


American Singer-Songwriter and Acting Icon Dolly Parton, Has Died

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John 5 and Dolly photo provided courtesy of Adrenaline PR.

The stage lights dim today all over the world as music icon Dolly Parton has died. She was 80 years old. News of her passing was shared in a video message from her nephew, with Dolly’s blessing. She was reportedly in ill health in the last few years. An iconic force in music, acting, pop culture, and philanthropy for six decades. Her passing follows her beloved husband and manager, Carl Dean, who died in 2025 after almost 60 years of marriage. Transcending Country music to Gospel, Blues, Musicals, and Rock, she crossed ages and other boundaries with her voice. She was increasingly philanthropic towards the end of her life, focusing on children’s care and quality of life, fighting cancer, education, and COVID relief in Tennessee. Writing over 3000 songs in her lifetime, she has been the recipient of nearly every music award possible, including the Country Music Hall of Fame, The Grand Ole Opry, Songwriters Hall of Fame, The Grammy Hall of Fame (for “I Will Always Love You”) Gospel Hall of Fame, Musicians Hall of Fame, and her 2022 induction into The Rock And Roll Fame. Following her Rock Hall honor she put out an album of Rock covers with collaborators and songs by Rob Halford of Judas Priest, John 5, Duran Duran, Melissa Ethridge, Lizzo, Nikki Sixx, Pat Benetar and Neil Giraldo, Prince Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Sting, Journey, Heart, John Fogerty, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Bob Seger, The Rolling Stones, Richie Sambora, Peter Frampton, Chris Stapleton, Miley Cyrus, Pink, Brandi Carlisle and more. RIP Queen. Continue reading →


Legendary Brooklyn Metal Club Saint Vitus Bar to Return in a New Location This Fall

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Over two years since being shut down in the middle of a show by the New York City Department of Buildings, Saint Vitus Bar will return to Brooklyn this fall in a new location. The new venue will be at 428 Troutman Street in Bushwick, the site of the old Brooklyn Made club, which closed in 2025. After a lot of teasing on social media leading up to the reveal, with a series of videos where Günther, the mascot/mannequin, left the bar at the old Greenpoint location on Manhattan Avenue and Clay Street, leaves his former home and sojourns to his new one. You can watch the last video in the series, which has him arriving at 428 Troutman and going inside, below.

Dubbed the “home of metal” in NYC, if not the USA, by Ghost Cult in our post-mortem about the closure, we are stoked to see it return!

Congrats and welcome back Saint Vitus Bar! Continue reading →