Only the most jaded music fans could've ignored the full-page review--more like a white-knuckled hosanna--that Britain's Uncut offered to Denton's Lift To Experience a few months ago. Just to recap one of the more evocative passages: "They walk onstage, unannounced, looking truly frightening. Here is drummer Andy Young, bug-eyed, sweaty,...

It's easy enough to pinpoint when things started to go wrong in Australia; take one Rollins Band tour, stir in some Sonic Youth fandom, and top off with the Nirvana effect, and pretty soon you've got an islandful of former underachievers aiming to make gleefully derivative punk/noize skronk en route...

Fu Manchu "Stoner rock," by any other name, is one of the more appropriate genre appellations to be employed by critics and fans alike since "industrial" in how it quickly suggests sound, attitude, and lifestyle. Think Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, and Nebula -- the last featuring three former...