Tag: The Shrine

  • PSYCHO LAS VEGAS Day One Recap

    PSYCHO LAS VEGAS Day One Recap

    When I first saw the lineup for Psycho Las Vegas back in February, I knew I had to be there, and they hadn’t even announced the headliners yet. There definitely hasn’t been such an impressive lineup of stoner/doom/heavy-rock outfits anywhere in North America before…

  • GRUESOME GREG’S TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2014

    OK, it’s been a little while since I’ve done any blogging around here, but I wanted to put my year-end top 10 lists some place for posterity–and where people would actually read ’em. Lemme just say that 2014 was the craziest year in recent memory for me, and if I ever start making movies about…

  • The Shrine – Bless Off

    The Shrine – Bless Off

    I was pretty impressed with these guys when they opened for Red Fang last month. While they’re not reinventing the wheel, they sure know how to roll it, bringing down some brief blasts of heavy vintage tuneage. It’s almost like one of those semi-obscure heavy bands from the early 70s (Dust, Bang, Gun, take your…

  • Graveyard / The Shrine @ The Shelter, Detroit, MI, February 4, 2013

    “Graveyard had tapped into a human condition that made a roomful of strangers no longer seem strange. It’s not something you can experience every day, but it’s certainly something worth waiting for.” Live review and photography by Renee Trotier