Tool performs during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Oct. 6, 2023. SACRAMENTO — Business picked up substantially at Discovery Park for the sold-out second day of Aftershock Festival. The crowds were bigger, the acts’ productions were more ambitious—and the sweltering heat had no intention of leaving.…

Godsmack, “Lighting Up the Sky.” If the eighth album from Godsmack is, as vocalist Sully Erna suggests, the band’s last, then the Boston quartet picked a heck of a way to go out. While the band isn’t retiring, Erna has said it’s permanently leaving the studio to do more things…

Tom Petty in New York in 1976. Photo: Richard E. Aaron/Redferns. For all the problems with 2020—the never-ending barrage of disasters, each worse than the last, unrelenting in their pace and scope, a perpetual hurricane with no eye, bad news crashing in on you one after another with no…

First off, obviously, I need to give a shoutout to Aretha. She had the best voice in the history of music and I will fight you if you disagree. On to 1998. First, since I still have fond memories, some shoutouts to songs I wanted to put on the…