
Today I've got a real sick dubstep track with a catchy classic sample.. enough said. It's the latest from Styles&Complete, the duo from Charlotte. We've been featuring these guys since debuting their first remix (See below for other Styles&Complete). Well I have what may be my favorite track from these guys to date. It's called "Hold On Lil Girl", sampling the track with the same name from Mr Big. They have their signature sound, smashed with a classic sample giving it a great twist. Turn this up, enjoy! Styles&Complete - Hold On Lil Girl | [...]
When ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy announced an unlikely collaboration with John Sykes (above left, the guy who wrote Whitesnake's huge album), it was easy to be of two minds: On the one hand, Portnoy had reactivated the long-dormant Sykes, which is awesome; but, jeez, the Portnoy-Sykes affair also set a roadblock before any potential [...]
We love the smell of AOR in the morning. Mr. Big are still flogging their Feb 2011 album, What If... and we saw a 20 min bass solo for it. Yowch.
If you've over the age of 30, you've heard Mr.Big's 1991 chart-topping, power-ballad "To Be with You" . Some 20 years later, you can still hear the song on a variety of satellite radio stations, from the '90s channel to the hair metal channel to the lite rock channel. It's also featured in the Broadway musical Rock of Ages . The original lineup - Eric Martin (vocals), Paul Gilbert (guitars), Billy Sheehan (bass) and Pat Torpey (drums) - released 4 albums between [...]

Clisson - Our top story tonight: Phil Lynott is still dead. Yes, I just referenced a 36 year old Chevy Chase joke. Not exactly the most topical, but then neither are Thin Lizzy . The Irish rockers recently reunited sans their departed frontman and were playing at Hellfest , a metal festival situated just outside of the small French town of Clisson. Billing themselves as a tribute to Lynott and featuring a mix of original members and new additions, this new version of Thin Lizzy seems pretty clearly to be an exercise in nostalgia, both for the fans [...]

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I like doing MetalSucks, in part, because I really do learn something new each and every week. You know what I learned this week, for example? FUCK VAMPIRES. Here are some other things we learned this week: The dudes in Lazarus A.D. like MetalSucks. Swamp Thing and Indian have awesome new music coming out. The [...]
When I was very young, I remember having an intensely heated argument with my mom over who sang, "Wild World." I insisted it was Mr. Big while she tried in vain to tell me it was a cover of a Cat Stevens song. Of course, she was right. But she should've known better than trying [...]
Prog, power, pomp and punishing metal for this week.
If you don't understand what that headline is a reference to, you've probably got the intelligence of the average fan of said band. And you probably believe in real-life transformers, characters from Street Fighter and the planet Nibiru. Elsewhere, Deicide had a solid first week while Motorhead and Crowbar had solid second weeks on the [...]
Once again, the only hard rock and metal albums shifting units* are classics, red state rock, and greatest hits packages. Just look at this screen cap from this week's Top Hard Music chart: With all due respect to Avenged Sevenfold, Times of Grace and All That Remains - the only bands with newish albums on [...]
Mr. Big What If… Frontiers Records 21 January 2011 A decade on from their last studio release, '80s supergroup Mr. Big return with their comeback album What If… featuring the original line up. Reactions to the 2009 reunion tour were overwhelmingly positive, with the band even releasing a Best Of and a Live DVD. Now, [...]

Diez años son muchos desde su última publicación de estudio, y quince son excesivos desde que la formación original trabajó en equipo. Ahora, Eric Martin, Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan y Pat Torpey han vuelto para reivindicar el hard rock y el propio sello de Mr. Big , una banda que, a pesar de ser famosa por una canción bastante tranquila - "To Be With You" -, tiene mucha caña que repartir. What If ... contiene doce nuevas canciones en las que este grupo de "cincuentones" no tiene miedo de atreverse con ritmos [...]

by teepoo As you can see from my playlists, how ADD my music is. Wanna send in yours? Shuffle your library and give us 10 track names and aid in our quest of music discovery! Here's what my iTunes churned out this week. 1. Mr. Big- Unnatural 2. Zeromancer- Send Me An Angel 3. Florence and the Machine- You've Got The Dirtee Love (live) 4. Metaform- Premonition 2010 (feat. Azeem) [...]

Más de 15 años después de la publicación de Hey Man , la formación original de Mr.Big que lo grabó ha vuelto a reunirse. Eric Martin, Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan y Pat Torpey volvieron a las andadas el año pasado y decidieron grabar un nuevo disco. Aparecerá a la venta en Europa el 21 de enero de 2011 a través de Frontiers Records y en Estados Unidos en febrero. Su título es What If... y contendrá doce nuevos temas, de los que se acaba de presentar "Undertow", [...]
It was a long weekend, and seemingly eight thousand fucking bands all decided to put out music videos while we were away. Let's check 'em out and see if any of them are decent, shall we? First up we have a video for "Larvae" by Portal. This band pushes so many envelopes they were all [...]

by teepoo This week's IPOD SHUFFLE playlist is submitted by @mikebaronowski a huge fan of jrock so you'll see a couple in this playlist! To submit your own, shuffle you're entire library and e-mail us at tiana.feng@ridethetempo.com the 10 tracks that show up and a little explanation of the embarrassing ones if you like, cheers! 1. MUCC - ware, aruebeki basho 2. Mr. Big- Rock n Roll Over 3. Luna Sea- Providence [...]