Can’t Swim – Death Deserves A Name – Review
Can’t Swim Death Deserves A Name EP (Pure Noise) By Mike Delano This New Jersey band covers a lot of ground on a 15-minute, 5-song EP. I love the way they’re constantly playing around with song structures – going full force unexpectedly at times and...
Squarecrow – Rammi Jamms – Review
Squarecrow Rammi Jamms By Mike Delano I don’t know what it is about punk bands – maybe their restless spirit and all – but they never seem to wanna be where they are. Whether it’s Rancid pining for the West Coast on “Olympia, WA” or...
The Birthday Massacre – Superstition – Review
The Birthday Massacre Superstition (Metropolis) By Mike Delano Canadian dark wavers The Birthday Massacre, now halfway through their second decade of existence, expertly walk the line between electro that’s moody and intriguing and electro that stumbles into...
Underworld – Awakening Soundtrack – Review
Underworld Awakening Soundtrack (Lakeshore) by Scott Hefflon 17 tracks of mostly-remixed electronic-obsessed darkness from relative unknowns to overrated divas, both male and female, but heavier on the females cuz Underworld stars the flawless Kate Beckinsale in a...
The Museum of Bad Art – Review
The Museum of Bad Art by Chad Van Wagner The whole “outsider art” thing is getting tiring. Once upon a time, the dividing lines between “good” and “bad” were clearer, and reveling in “bad” art was a pretty amusing thing....
Orange County Hardcore Scenester – Review
Orange County Hardcore Scenester A Film By Evan Jacobs (Anhedenia Films) By Mike Delano Unless you were there, chances are the pillars of the Orange County hardcore scene of the ’90’s — Insted, No For An Answer – don’t ring a bell like...
It’s So Easy – and other lies – Review
It’s So Easy (and other lies) by Duff McKagan (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster) by Scott Deckman Duff McKagan is one hell of a nice guy. And he’s also one lucky son of a bitch. These are the two main things you take away from It’s So Easy (and other...
Mental Shrapnel: Good and Bad Stripper Names – Column
Mental Shrapnel Lollipop has a long history of making fun of stupid people, stupid trends, over-hyped movies, TV shows, bands, and anything else we see. There’s no end to the things you can make fun of if you can stop giggling long enough to scribble a one-liner...
Elvira – AKA Cassandra Peterson – Interview
Elvira An Interview with Elvira: AKA Cassandra Peterson By Alicyn Leigh (as previously printed in the Long Island Press) Don’t let that raven-haired sex-pot with the Valley Girl impression and spooky aesthetic fool ya! Goth girls are way smarter than that,...
Gothic Calendar 2007 – Review
Gothic Calendar 2007 by Scott Hefflon This year’s Gothic Calendar is infinitely better than last year’s. Ya gotta start somewhere, and then ya gotta learn as ya go, ya know? In this day and age of “bands” calling themselves bands cuz they have...