I heard about Grampall Jookabox this summer when I was on tour with City Harvest Black. He told me that there was this guy named Grampall Jookabox touring around and playing some disgusting shows. When I got home I found out my friend Bizzart got signed to Joyful Noise….

The Chrome history is a storybook example of the volatility of creative collaboration. Two radically different artistic ideals managed to collide for a brief time with amazing results, but ultimately the dialectic was a destructive one.

I was watching Saved by the Bell and the theme song was like a syringe of caffeine. When was the last time you really listened to it? It’s like being on fire and running for a pool or a lake to jump into. The smoking solo, the piano slides and the excitement in the vocals.

Japanese drone legends Boris are currently touring Canada and the U.S. in support of their recent release, Smile. Unlike a lot of overseas bands who only frequent the major cities when coming to our shores, Boris is nice enough to schedule some stops in often overlooked places like Buffalo, Danbury, and a bunch of towns in Iowa.

It’s not everyday you see and interview with Eric Wood of Man is the Bastard, Bastard Noise, and Pillsbury Hardcore fame. Vice Magazine recently posted an interview with the power violence pioneer. Here is an excerpt:

While there were a lot of really great posts on Rapid Transit Radio in the month of October, here is a short list of the five most popular ones.

While there aren’t hundreds of books on hardcore punk music, there still is plenty of mediocre titles out there. This article will help you sift through the piles and find the books that should be in anyone’s collection.

With a young and growing blog such as Rapid Transit Radio, we are constantly trying new things out.  While weekly features and writers may change from time to time, one thing that will always remain the same is our dedication to cover new, up and coming, and talented bands.  As I’m sitting here working on my next post, I wondered to myself what the readers of Rapid Transit Radio would like to see covered on the blog.
What bands/aspects of music would you like to see covered on Rapid Transit Radio?

This is going to be a new weekly feature at Rapid Transit Radio.  Every week, one of our writers is going to do a rundown of a few bands they have been listening to lately with links to where you can check them out.  Without further adieu, here is my mix for this week:
1. Last Days of April- For the longest time, I only had (and listened to constantly) their album Angel Youth.  That album is so perfect that I never desired to seek out anything else by them until …

One of the greatest crimes Hollywood has ever committed is how they constantly put fake or bad bands into movies, such as The Lone Rangers in Airheads, the rooftop band in Empire Records, or the wannabe Rage Against the Machine band in Hackers.  Luckily for music fans, every once in a while there will be an actual band with talent in a movie.  While this has happened many times, here is a few of the most notable incidents:
1. The Donnas in Drive Me Crazy and Jawbreaker- Two great teen movies, …