The year-old North Strip resort rolled out the blood-red carpet for Psycho’s attendees, making almost every potential performance space available to Psycho’s 150-ish and their fans.
The Editors Picks: The best releases of 2020 (July-December)
13.03.21 | Alex Sievers
Svalbard – ‘When I Die, Will I Get Better?’
Having a powerful opener is sometimes all you need. And few opening songs in 2020 come as powerful as ‘
Open Wound‘ kicking off
Svalbard’s third album. What is overall a familiar, expected and perhaps unadventurous record for this U.K. band still cannot hope to diminish what a solid offering it was. Following an esteemed style of melodic hardcore, shoegaze, black metal and post-metal in the same school of thought as bands like
Envy,
Oathbreaker, and
Alcest, it’s a fucking consistent listen. Generating some of their best songs to date. It’s an impassioned album that can be read as either being about feeling like death might cure one’s own mental anguish; individuals – artists, actors, musicians, celebrities, politicians, your mate down the road – getting placed upon tall golden pedestals once they shuffle off this mortal coi
Winter 2020 print edition also features Iron Maiden, Adam Jones and Tom Morello, and more December 29, 2020
It s been a dark, scary, WTF year we lost Eddie Van Halen, for fuck s sake but there have been glimmers of hope amid the Great Dismal, to borrow a phrase from the band Nothing. With that in mind, we ve teamed with three trailblazing heavy hitters, namely, Rob Zombie, Ghostemane and Poppy, who appear across the collectible covers of
Revolver s new Winter 2020 issue. They re interviewed inside by a trio of famous friends and fans, comedian Brian Posehn, actor and Tenacious D singer-guitarist Jack Black and Vowws vocalist Rizz, respectively. You can pick up those variants of the magazine now via our store.
Since her first album, 2016’s
Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, Margo Price has often been positioned in outlaw country, flanked by comparisons to Bobbie Gentry and Loretta Lynn. But on her third LP,
That’s How Rumors Get Started, Price veers closer to classic rock and away from the honky-tonk that once echoed through the Nashville songwriter’s music. While her debut was charged with drinking tropes and her sophomore effort (2017’s
All American Made)
steeped in political consciousness,
Rumors focuses on the more vulnerable stories of touring life: being away from home, surviving relationships and the anxiety of stillness. Price is at her most stunning on the gospel-tinged confessional “Prisoner of the Highway,” in which she reflects on the cost of being an artist on the road while in love and starting a family. The same goes for power ballad “I’d Die For You,” where she parallels a soaring Stevie Nicks. A little bit of Nashville and Southern rock seems to ha