For those who don’t follow sports, Yasiel Puig has taken Major League Baseball by storm since being called up to the L.A. Dodgers and putting up a .391 batting average, a .616 slugging percentage, and destroying opposing pitching. With a last name like Puig and two dudes with a history of playing heavy music who are also baseball aficionados how could a play on the famous Pig Destroyer name not happen. Puig Destroyer features Riley Breckenridge, former drummer of now […]
City Of Fire, Trial Through Fire: Album Review
Trial Through Fire is an appropriate title for City Of Fire’s sophomore outing because what started out so pure and filled with so much hope became this lengthy ordeal that resulted in an album that quietly dropped with barely a whimper back in April of this year. The drama aside of a Pledgemusic campaign that launched in 2011 and only just came to fruition in 2013 aside, a whimper is definitely not the kind of sound you’ll be hearing from […]
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee: The Pop!Blerd Review
Not content with creating a show about nothing, Jerry Seinfeld has now invaded the interwebs with webisodes about nothing. As a fan of neither cars or coffee (unless it’s iced, of course!) Seinfeld’s latest foray into the public eye, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, is an endearing and honest internet show nonetheless that is about exactly what the name suggests: Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. Made for the short attention-span audience, each episode lasts anywhere from 11 to 18 minutes […]
New Release Report 7/23/13
I have now realized that to be posting this column weekly I need to be on top of what some of the new releases actually sound like. I’m not sure how I feel about this yet but I’ll take one for the team from time to time because I care about y’all. Selena Gomez is back and better than ever? I don’t know as I’ve never owned an album but I’m sure some Beliebers and non-Beliebers are anxious to pick […]
Sal Abruscato of A Pale Horse Named Death: The Popblerd Interview!
Being the drummer responsible for some of the major doom releases of the mid-’90’s (Type O Negative’s Bloody Kisses, Life Of Agony’s River Runs Red), Sal Abruscato knows a thing or two about what makes those kind of albums work. That said, it’s no surprise that he’s stepped out from behind the kit to spearhead A Pale Horse Named Death whose sophomore album Lay My Soul To Waste was just released through SPV/Steamhammer. Abruscato recently spoke with Popblerd via phone […]
Who The Hell Is…Unlocking the Truth?
When I was in sixth grade, I’m not even sure if I knew my right from my left. The little dudes from Unlocking the Truth are in sixth grade, and they’ve got better metal chops than half the bands releasing albums today. How does that work? Hell if I know, but if you’re the least bit interested in metal, you have to check these kids out. They’re three eleven year olds, from my home base in E.Flatbush, Brooklyn. They have […]