In the wake of the heaviness of Red Fang and the chaos of the Dillinger Escape Plan, I stood front and center at the rail for my 11th Mastodon show on Nov. 1 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles.
2009: the last year of the first decade of the new millennium. It proved to be a year rife with innovation, comebacks, breakthroughs, and goodbyes in rock music.
