Email Author Michael Alan Goldberg

2008 Stories by Michael Alan Goldberg

• Presidents of the USA

  published November 6, 2008

  While the new President of the United States of America will have to contend with an economy in the toilet, a couple of wars, and whatever... More >>

• Dir En Grey

  published October 30, 2008

  Tokyo rock quintet Dir En Grey has been through a number of musical incarnations over its decade-long history, but none of them resemble the... More >>

• The Balding and the Beautiful

  published October 2, 2008

  So I'm on the phone with Sean Daley — better-known as the rapper Slug — who alongside his producer/beat-making partner, Anthony... More >>

• It Must Be the Sauce

  published August 21, 2008

  In the beginning, Philadelphia native Garrett "G. Love" Dutton — hitting the national music scene like a fourth Beastie Boy crossed with... More >>

• Stone Temple Pilots

  published August 14, 2008

  Hey, Scott Weiland: Look, I'm gonna be honest with you — I really don't care whether Slash took his stinky leather boot, planted it on... More >>

• Bach and Ready to Rock

  published July 17, 2008

  I've been singing 'We are the youth gone wild' for 20 years, man... I'm fuckin' 40!" Sebastian Bach exclaims over the phone... More >>

• Reviewing the Reviewers

  published May 8, 2008

  Bay Area rapper and Quannum Projects co-founder Lyrics Born, AKA Tom Shimura, has a big, engaging personality, whether on wax — as with his... More >>

• The Keytar Lives!

  published January 24, 2008

  Chances are, if you're familiar with New Orleans rockers Mute Math, it's for one of two reasons. You've either seen their... More >>

• Sebastian Bach

  published January 10, 2008

  Say what you will about his hair-metal pedigree. Talk dismissively about his being firmly ensconced in the reality-TV wasteland... More >>