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Collective Soul, Live, Our Lady Peace, and Greylin James Rue Rock the ABQ
So there I am, at the Isleta Amphitheater in Albuquerque with the other younger brother, taking in bands from our youth. Collective Soul and Live were two huge names in music in the mid nineties. One of my first CDs was Collective Soul’s Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid. I remember begging my mom in…
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Limp Bizkit: Revisiting ‘My Way’ 25 Years Later
When Limp Bizkit took the stage on a warm Friday evening in Denver, you could feel the excitement beaming from the thousands of fans eager to relive a little bit of their youth. Fred Durst came out in his signature backwards fitted hat, and Wes Borland is in full costume as a skeleton version of…
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Lockjaw Brings Out ‘The Monster Inside’ to the Rock House
Fort Worth-based metal band Lockjaw – one of RockMental’s first featured bands – made their way to West Texas last week as The Monster Inside Tour came to the Rock House in El Paso. The five-piece band pumped up an intimate crowd of metalheads with their signature bangers “I Can’t Escape,” “Control the Chaos,” and…
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Deftones, with special guests the mars Volta and Fleshwater, Rock the footprints center in Phoenix
It was spring break here in the House of Mayhem and the missus and I couldn’t think of a more wholesome family mini-vacation than a road trip to see my favorite band, Deftones, live with two other bands who are heavily featured in our home’s daily soundtrack: The Mars Volta and Fleshwater. We packed up…
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Mannequin Pussy with Margaritas Podridas
First things first, repeat after me as loud as you’re comfortable… ready… Pussy. Pussy. PUSSY! We’re going to be saying pussy a lot, you’ve been warned. This story starts about two years ago as I was heading home from a record store sprint with the one and only Bookie. We coped with the traffic by…
