Month: September 2000

Orlando (Part Two)

Cat Dissections

Precipitate8 continues his seedy tour of Orlando’s clubs and nightspots, and has his definitive Dr. Benway moment, when the tale of the Boobytrapped Asshole is recounted.

Real and Unreal, Part Three

El Mortigi Tempo

“The Mortigi Tempo was a silver sculpture of a skyscraper with knives stabbed in it. On the top, there was a man in a business suit with one hand raising its fist in the air and the other hand holding a knife. The man on the skyscraper was obese and round and one customer to the store had commented that the man was a ‘gluttonous beast’.”

Elvis Presley

Screen Reviews

Professional cynic Dennis Leary once remarked that he wished that someone had…

Free Tibet

Screen Reviews

This DVD, which is a reissue of a video that came out in 1998, is a document …

Longwave

Music Reviews

Longwave is a four-piece from New York City that attempts to capture some of …

764-Hero

Music Reviews

The latest from 764-Hero hits me hard and immediate. You can feel them in you…

Abby Straus

Music Reviews

Tight and clean slight roots rock. Female vocals strong and upfront, over aco…

Perfect Pop

Interviews

Are you hip to the Norweigian indie-pop scene? Randall Stephens is, and he’ll help you catch up with this profile of the Perfect Pop label.

Kathleen LaGue

Interviews

Self-proclaimed “solo artist” Kathleen LaGue isn’t what you’d expect from the typical singer/songwriter out of Nashville. Phil Bailey spoke to the fashion model turned rocker about her use of the Internet to market herself, the Roxygen on Oxygen competition, and the travails of doing it all yourself.

Venom

Music Reviews

Venom: the supposed granddaddies of black metal, the most overrated metal ban…

Her Space Holiday

Music Reviews

Four more songs from California’s prolific Her Space Holiday. Late night guit…

High Fidelity

Music Reviews

Funny how sometimes a soundtrack can last so much longer than a movie. Hig…

Tom Lehrer

Music Reviews

The Remains Of Tom Lehrer is a bit misleading – there is little that …

Fetish/EED

Music Reviews

Tautology is a Boston, Massachusetts-based label, specializing in that scene’…

Archers Of Loaf

Music Reviews

Starting off with the brilliant “Dead Red Eyes,” this CD is a welcome memory …

Orangetree

Music Reviews

This is another poppy, punk-ska CD about girls. It’s nothing real groundbreak…

Decoder

Music Reviews

Oh man. I think Decoder just knocked a flowerpot off of my windowsill. Jeez.

Sally Taylor

Music Reviews

Sally Taylor certainly has the genetics to make it in the music business. The…

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Screen Reviews

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