No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

I like critics with strong opinions.