For more than three decades, Red Hot Chili Peppers have been wowing audiences with their melding of musical stylings and kinetic stage bravado, and their recent Air Canada Centre show in Toronto certainly delivered on all fronts. Full review and photo gallery from this performance can be found HERE http://www.redhotchilipeppers.com http://www.facebook.com/ChiliPeppers twitter.com/chilipeppers
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Michael & Denise Okuda Star Trek Interview, December 8th, 2016
Star Trek 50 & Star Trek: The Original Series – The Roddenberry Vault Interview by Mike Bax http://www.startrek.com http://www.roddenberry.com/star-trek-50/ Just in time for holiday gift giving, Star Trek: The Original Series – The Roddenberry Vault is released last week on Blu-ray is a thing of beauty. In honor of the show’s 50th Anniversary, the three-disc…
Video interview with Red Fang – Detroit, MI – December 9th, 2016
Red Fang David Sullivan El Club, Detroit, MI – December 9th, 2016 Interview by Mike Bax http://www.redfang.net twitter.com/RedFang http://www.facebook.com/redfangband
Video interview with Animals As Leaders – Toronto – November 28th, 2016
Animals As Leaders Matt Garstka The Opera House, Toronto – November 28th, 2016 Interview by Mike Bax http://www.animalsasleaders.org/ https://www.facebook.com/animalsasleaders/ https://twitter.com/AnimalAsLeader
Red Fang – El Club, Detroit – December 9th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax Red Fang with support from Torche and Whores. A cool club that holds just under 300 patrons. A relatively easy drive. Sign me up. Red Fang, along with Torche and Whores are currently entering their last week of U.S. tour dates together – ending on December 17th with a hometown…
Interview with Klayton – Circle Of Dust – November 21st, 2016
By Mike Bax Industrial is a term that was used to describe a great many bands in the 1980s and 1990s. The term became so hated by the very people involved in its inception, it became an easy way to irritate the musician simply by describing them as such. Now, twenty-five years later, Industrial is…
Animals as Leaders – The Opera House, Toronto – November 28th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax Performing to an utterly sold out venue this evening, instrumental three piece prog wizards Animals As Leaders dominated the stage performing a dozen songs from their four studio albums. Tosin Abasi, Javier Reyes and Matt Garstka released The Madness of Many a few weeks prior to this show, and…
Metallica – The Opera House, Toronto – November 29th, 2016
Review by Mike Bax Photos by Aneil Singh metallica.com twitter.com/Metallica http://www.facebook.com/Metallica When touring Ride The Lightning, Metallica played their first Toronto show at The Concert Hall (The Masonic Temple) on January 19, 1985 – a 1200 capacity auditorium. This evening’s Opera House show, with a posted capacity of 950 (680 Main Floor and 270 Balcony),…
Carcass w Deafheaven & Inter Arma – Dallas Night Club, Kitchener November 24th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax Praise the music gods for routing this tour through Kitchener! I was thinking exactly this thought as I watched two security guards prop themselves against the edge of the Dallas Night Club stage in a reverse push-up position, their legs butted up against the support rails of the security…
Circle Of Dust – Machines of Our Disgrace review
FIXT Review by Mike Bax Excerpted from AllMusic – Industrial Music: The most abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music. Initially a blend of avant-garde electronics experiments (tape music, musique concrète, white noise, synthesizers, sequencers, etc.) and punk provocation. Industrial is a term that was used to describe a great many bands in…
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