The Corna. Who knew? Can the Italians shed some light on this please? Personal histories, anecdotes, etc., anything involving anyone in the Dio family and their relationship with the Moloch would be appreciated.

Some Rein Sanction finally made its way to the youtubes. If you missed this band in the early 90s, which wouldn’t have been that difficult, you nevertheless missed something. Only two short albums for subpop and then one of them jumped out of a car or something. There were always the craziest stories with […]

While researching strategies to dissuade neighborhood squirrels from continuing their residency in my attic, I happened upon the Squirrel Bait family tree , once again, which then led me to this Bitch Magnet footage from 1989. None of this has solved my problem, but the squirrels do shut up when I play Bitch Magnet loud.

You’ve all probably seen these by now, but I’ve been in the studio the last two weekends, which makes them all the more punishingly funny. The most surreal and artfully decomposed mock-ups of all time perhaps. This is the Maiden one, the Metallica is also curl up on the floor funny. Wired put them up […]

That was all very high-brow. But like Nietzsche said, the “very great philosophy so far has been…the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.”
So here’s a low-brow guilty pleasure of mine, POD. Well, this one song. Takes you back to like…’02 or somethin’!

End times, baby. As we’ve been pondering and predicting and hoping for years, the paradigm shift in the music “industry” seems to be finally upon us. In an effort to topple pathetically desperate Big Music, who have taken to suing fans and consumers that they overcharged for years, it seems a flurry of your […]

The best thing about travel, besides enjoying the unique cultural and mulleted wonders offered by the location in question, would have to be discovering a new form of music or art. Or snack food. Holland didn’t disappoint, and on Saturday at Waterpop, a large free festival adorned gratuitously with sunflowers and traditional windmill in […]

So, to backtrack, other than the abandoned hospital complex, Berlin was pretty typical travel. I walked many miles, saw the sites to see, took the photos. I did stumble upon a crazy beer festival on Karl Marx Allee, complete with uniformed nuses serving beer to completely *wasted* dudes dancing in silly mock-country mode to “Ring […]

Well, that’d be cool wouldn’t it? If I was heading off on some intergalactic adventure. Fantasies aside, I’m headed to Europe, with Magnapop, for a couple of weeks. If you’re nearby…yo- check it!
Tuesday August 7
HAMBURG, DE
Molotow club
Wednesday August 8
JOURE, NL
Café de Stam club
Free show !
Thursday August 9
ZICHEM, BE
Den Hemel club
Friday August 10
LOKEREN, BE
Fonnefeesten festival
Saturday, August […]

Get your corndog on. Come see all the best Atlanta bands in three days. Start tonight with Bad Magic Number / Magnapop / Luigi, beginning at 8pm. New Bad Magic Number interview just hit the streets! BMN is the second band I’ve been in that I have named. Give a drummer some credit…