Latest articles by Sleazegrinder
They weren’t just a band. The Ramones were a goddamn revolution
Allegedly inspired by Led Zeppelin, punk icons Discharge released Grave New World in 1986... and never really recovered
Mad Max + some crazy church = rock'n'roll on Battlsnake's The Rise And Demise Of The Motorsteeple
Veteran desert rockers Fu Manchu deliver heavy fuzz on 13th album
The real sound of Seattle
Buying guide T. Rex's singles were cloaked with glitter and stardust, but there was more to Marc Bolan than the pop charts, and these are his best albums
Metal machine music is back and it sounds surprisingly fresh
Buying guide Iggy Pop burst onto the stages of Detroit like a mad bag of screaming skin ’n’ bones, and he hasn't let up in the half century since: These are his best albums
A celebration of the long-standing appeal of slow ridin’ rock’n’rollers Foghat, who chose their name from some jumbled-up Scrabble letters
In the early 70s there wasn’t really any such thing as heavy metal – but there were bands like The Godz who were willing to take things to the limit, even if it cost them their lives
The fifth album from Stockholm-based Lucifer: Classic rock, if rock'n'roll really is the devil's music
This Heathen Land is album number three from British stoner doom band Green Lung
Celebrating a smattering and a splattering of shock rockers from the earliest, weirdest days of the genre: some survive to this day
Kiss kept the kids happy with lunchboxes, but Blue Öyster Cult were the brooding kings of the teenage wasteland
10 live albums that remain a career pinnacle for 10 legendary bands
10 extremely American songs to celebrate America in all its star-spangled and/or faded glory
In 1987 Geffen Records paid Rock City Angels $6.2 million dollars for a seven-album deal – but it was Guns N' Roses who ascended
Scorched is the gorgeously tawdry twentieth album from deathless thrash metal veterans Overkill
ZZ Top's Eliminator yielded hit after hit and catapulted the unlikely power-trio into superstardom, but how good was it really? We rank every song on the album from worst to best
Helix were street-wise and raw while maintaining allegiance to their melodic Canuck-rock roots. And nearly half a century after forming, they're still on the road
Bound For Hell On The Sunset Strip is a sprawling re-examination of unheralded Hollywood glam
Black Space Riders get real gone for a change on seventh album We Have Been Here Before
Faded-star hair-metallers Skid Row return with their best album since their best-ever album
