Hot Snakes

In the late 1980s and early 1990s Rubalcaba was a professional skateboarder , skating for Team Alva . Read More

Isaiah Mitchell (Nebula), Mike Eginton (Electric Nazarene) and Mario Rubalcaba (Hot Snakes, Rocket From the Crypt, Clikatat Ikatowi, skater extraordinaire) have combined to create a number of psychedelic rock tour de forces over the last few years. Read More

What I offer you today is the best song about post-apocalyptic blowjobs you will ever hear in your entire life. Read More

Here we have the peculiar and awesome spectacle of a band that normally can't sell out even the Mercury Lounge playing to an audience of tens of thousands on national television. Read More

Our list of the decade's best music naturally didn't cover every album our music writers loved in the '00s, so we're giving them the chance to big-up their personal favorites here—these are the discs that didn't make our big list, but that nevertheless are worthy of your attention. Read More

The instrumental stoner-rock trio Earthless consists of former members of Hot Snakes, Nebula and Electric Nazarene. Read More

be dropped into a David Lynch film and look right at home. Read More

Known for being every other band's favorite band, EARTHLESS features members Mario Rubalcaba (ex-Rocket From the Crypt, Hot Snakes, Blackheart Procession, Clickatat Ikatowi) on drums, Isaiah Mitchell (Nebula, Drunk Horse) on guitar and Mike Eginton (Electric Nazarene) on bass, and deliver one of the best live shows in all of modern, heavy rock today. Read More

It's a beautiful Friday afternoon in Brooklyn, and a few world-weary souls have headed over to the Knitting Factory for the Village Voice showcase. Read More

Let's turn our attention now to a pair of bands we're excited to see on the first day of Fun Fest's aught nine edition, San Diego's Night Marchers and Tokyo's Melt-Banana . Read More