The Way Up and Down: “The Afterman”
Following closely on the heels of October’s “Afterman: Ascension” Coheed & Cambria dropped “Afterman: Descension” this week. Parts of it have been released as previews, and “Iron Fist” was an acoustic staple of the 2011 headline tour. I loved Ascension, and had the nagging worry that Descension wouldn’t quite measure up. My doubts were as [...]
The Price of Addiction
Michael (Mic) Todd, bassist for Coheed & Cambria, was arrested last night after robbing a Walgreen’s in southeastern Massachusetts. On the surface this looks like another entertainment industry partier who has gone a step too far, from addiction to crime, leaving band mates and fans shaking their heads. This particular incident played way up on [...]
Music Discovery and Distribution
I’ve had a number of conversations over the past few weeks with established and emergent talent in the music management business. Most of them started with thinking about how people discover new bands or new types of music, and how those processes relate to the more abstract notions of brand. All of this was made [...]
Songs Through Darwin’s Radio
What do deception, love, redemption, mutation and perhaps a bit of science fiction have in common? It’s either Coheed and Cambria’s Year of the Black Rainbow or Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Children, or both. What if evolution breeds xenophobia, and subsequently fear and hate? What if evolution is forced, and therefore somewhat dangerous, grounding the fear? [...]