The Horrible Crowes Elsie By: Andy Hanson   Rating: The Gaslight Anthem front-man Brian Fallon is 31 years old. On the surface this is an arbitrary fact that transforms into extreme relevance once the sheer essence of this man is analyzed. Fallon is still young in body and like so many of his heroes his spirit is constantly longing for that ever fleeting concept of youth, but the overpowering sincerity in which his gravelly...

Mastodon The Hunter By: Andy Hanson Rating: Consistently thriving on innovation and never making the same album twice, Mastodon has traced a musical lineage akin to the process of evolution. The first exercise (Remission) was primal brutality, the soundtrack to cavemen hunting mammoths with only knives in their teeth and manically crazed looks in their eyes. From this inception Mastodon matured as they evolved, with additional layers of...