Arcade Fire knows what they’re doing. They’re no longer striving to be the cool kids who mask their naivete with denim jackets and Doc Martens (although their current tour get-ups are plenty cool with exactly those items). They no longer need to shout their lyrics to be heard; people are listening.

M. shares his feelings about the new Metallica album Hardwired...To Self-Destruct and gives us a few tips on how to spot a true metal head in a crowd.

With lead Luke Spiller, The Struts could be anything it wants to be. It’s clearly been seen by their handlers already. That’s a good thing. People with influence and the power to shape the band have done a nice job to date. They have a star on their hands. They know it.

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M.'s busy this week. Like, looking for a place and working and shit. Still, he managed to see gothic songstress Chelsea Wolfe at L.A.'s Teragram Ballroom on Wednesday night...

I’m sitting in a bar in Dallas with a thumb war challenge staring me down. Now, I love me some good warring challenges but the loser has to eat a full box of Bacon & Cheese Crickets (a real thing in Texas) and this has my brain and intestines spinning.  This is not going to mix well with my vodka...

We at EvilTapo are about the music and the joy that it brings to our lifestyles. And last week, BeeGee of the EvilTapo ministry was fortunate to spend a good chunk of time immersed in The Cure’s three-night residency at the Hollywood Bowl, witnessing a mind-blowing performance each and every evening.

Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine is a study in contrasts... Last night at the Ace Theatre in Downtown L.A., she premiered “The Odyssey,” a short film that connects four songs from the 2015 Florence + the Machine album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful ... and the result is a stunning journey through a painful break-up.

Radiohead is a band whose members have always come off as a bit smarter than everyone else...

With all the noise on the internet, it's rare to stumble upon something so good, so perfect and lovely that you feel like you owe it to humanity to share it. But that's exactly how I feel about "Sing Street," a newly released movie about a 15-year-old boy growing up in Dublin in 1985 who starts a band to impress a girl...