The Ear has been a huge fan of MUSE since hearing and seeing "Hysteria" on FUSE (remember when that music station didn't su...

By March 8th 1994, grunge, as a mainstream sensation, had little over a year and a half of commercial success left in its...

Yep, it's Yuletide once again, and Yuletide just isn't Yuletide without the proper Yule Tunes. This year I put together a bit of...

Coming pretty quickly on the heels of last year’s The Mark Lanegan Band’s Blues Funeral , Lanegan’s collaboration with English minimal...

Some said grunge died when Mudhoney released an album on Reprise Records. Some said grunge died with Kurt Cobain (or Layne Staley, or ...

During a relatively short sabbatical from his main musical project, upon which he scored two major films, won an Oscar, and released a...

This past New Year's Eve, just before my wife and I headed out to partake in some New Year's Eve festivities, I caught part of t...