J. Bennett

All we can do is mourn — for as long as it takes — and spend some serious quality time with what he left us.

'I don’t even know how many songs we played before I fell and started taking my sh*t apart. I think I started taking the cymbals off the drums, too. It was a total sh*tshow. But I think we sold the most merch that night, so we must’ve done something right.'

'He’s not someone to be mainstream for the sake of making money. I can’t imagine him ever doing that.'

The scythe is lifted once again.

Jason Decay remembers the trad-metallers' near-fatal accident in February.

Denim and leather were alive and well at the second Frost and Fire festival.

The cult is alive for L.A. stoner punk crew.

From viral listicles to carpentry, former Swans percussionist Thor Harris can — and will — do it all.

NOLA sludge legend Jimmy Bower of Down, Eyehategod and the resurrected Superjoint considers the power of racial jokes onstage and in our current climate.

They're not like the other HM-2 revivalists.