Nate Jackson

The moment you start embracing metal not only as a sound but as a lifestyle, the next course of action is to hit up your local head shop and start building up your wardrobe. While differences of opinion on the best types of T-shirts displaying allegiance to the Dark Lord......

Just a few months after leaving Long Beach for Nashville, it looks like Ink-N-Iron's ship has sunk. We read the reviews from the new location at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park back in August — the shockingly low attendance, complaints from non-VIP ticket holders who were treated like plebs, Merle......

OK, we know summer kinda just started but here's two reasons you should already be looking forward to the fall. Warped Tour creator Kevin Lyman along with Mayhem Fest/Odd Ball Festival co-founder John Reese and Live Nation's Rich Best are unleashing a couple huge events in October: The return of......

Thirteen years is a long life for any festival, and in that time, Ink-N-Iron Kustom Culture Festival has left its mark on local tattoo culture in more ways than one. While master ink slingers have always been the anchor of the convention-turned-festival since it began in 2003, it's the bands,......

[Editor's Note: This is not really a Coachella post. I'm not speaking to you as a music journalist. Or as a fan. Just as a guy remembering a friend.] Had he been alive to see it, last night would've easily been described as the biggest night in Ikey Owens' life......

Smack!...Smack!....Smack! "Woooo! Coachellaaaaaaaahhh! Gimmie five!" That's the sound of a loud, burly Kentucky man high-fiving his way through the sunburned Sunday crowd on weekend one of Coachella. Though he appears to be just another dude with a GA wristband, right now he's feeling more like one of the beloved performers......

It's true, Matthew Koma doesn't necessarily fit the bill of a typical dance music artist. For one thing, in most of his live photos, you're more likely to see him strumming a guitar than riding the fader. And yet his music bares almost no resemblance to the world of moshpits,......

There's never just one way to get into Coachella. Cash, of course, is always king. But there are still myriad ways to ensure that your exposed flesh is burning along with the rest of us in the Indio sun. In that case, it's nice to know that bartering, the age-old......

Nate Jackson Guy Gerber (center) with assistants Lauren Rolls (right) and Pao Lopez (left) It's kind of amazing that Guy Gerber is still conscious right now. He's leaning up against his backstage trailer, minutes after a 90-minute set at the Yuma tent on Saturday, sipping leisurely from a plastic glass......

Nate Jackson GZA destroying bros with his lyrics at the Heineken House Special guests at Coachella are commonplace at this point. It's just something you expect when you set foot on the Polo Fields. But on Saturday night things went to another level; it was a fantastic evening due to......