Alternative music, cult films, and pop culture explored through a Gen X lens — with reviews, interviews, and a deep-dive podcast.
Billy Corgan Leaves Twitter, Starts Blog About Old Cars: Smashing Pumpkins frontman starts mysterious website, continues love affair with wrestling. While we await the next album from The Smashing Pumpkins, frontman Billy Corgan (or William Patrick Corgan, as is his preferred moniker these days) has fueled much head scratching with his curious and perhaps final […]
Danzig ‘Blackest of The Black’ Austin, TX Concert Review: Devilish Metal was alive and well at Stubbs’ Waller Creek Amphitheater. [rating=4] Even in a city as hipster-centric as Austin, a week bookended by two ACL Festival installments is pushing it. So thank God (I mean Satan) for Danzig’s Blackest of the Black Festival, which added a […]
Albums Revisited: ‘Lift’- Sex, Drugs and Love and Rockets. Peter Marks looks back at the post-punk trio’s final album. By Peter Marks The 1990s were not kind to Love and Rockets, though they went into them on top of the world thanks to “So Alive” their subsequent albums were routinely ignored by both the music […]
Monster Magnet ‘Cobras And Fire (The Mastermind Redux)’ Review: frontman Dave Wyndorf blasts off on a magic carpet ride with this wild and wooly re-imagining of band’s 2010 album Mastermind. [rating=4] When I spoke to Monster Magnet frontman Dave Wyndorf earlier this year regarding Milking the Stars, the band’s re-imagining of 2013 album Last Patrol, he mentioned he was […]
Hey all, if you see less output on my blog over the next seven days, it’s because I’m covering Fantastic Fest 2015 on Examiner.com (via my horror movie column.) I’ll be barraged by all the latest in sci-fi and horror, so if you’re into that, be sure to read my column for a ton of reviews, interviews and festival coverage. I’ll […]
Silversun Pickups ‘Better Nature’ Review: slick yet catchy, the group’s latest release offers huge pop hooks with a streamlined sound. [rating=3] “This album is like its own quantum universe. It’s kind of unstable.” That’s Silversun Pickups frontman Brian Aubert trying to explain the immediate takeaway of the band’s latest album, ‘Better Nature’ (out September 25th on the group’s […]
Listen to New Order Song ‘Plastic’ From New Album: Second Single From ‘Music Complete’ is a club-ready anthem. New Order have just released ‘Plastic’, the second single from their upcoming album ‘Music Complete’ (due out Sept. 25th on Mute Records.) And if their début single ‘Restless’ sounded, well, a tad weak, but ‘Plastic’ (mixed by […]
Albums revisited: Deconstruction steps up to the bar: new contributor Peter Marks looks back on the underrated release from Jane’s Addiction alums Dave Navarro and Eric Avery. Bassists always draw the shortest straw from fans of the bands they are in, Kids In The Hall famously chided the bass player in one of their many […]
Killing Joke Release New ‘Pylon’ Track ‘I Am The Virus’: Proto-industrial legends release first track from upcoming 15th studio album. Veteran Post-punk rockers Killing Joke have just released I Am The Virus the first official single from their forthcoming album Pylon. Check out the video (with lyrics) via YouTube below. The band also announced the […]
Toadies ‘Heretics’ Review: Texas alternative heroes add an acoustic twist to their caustic rock sound. [rating=4] “A running joke over the last 25 years is about putting keyboards and handclaps [in our music]…It’s a left turn for the band, and I can understand why a lot of fans would think we’re turning our backs on our […]
