Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years
Black Horse Records issues a second definitively packaged volume of Joe Strummer’s musical career. Charles DJ Deppner reflects.
Black Horse Records issues a second definitively packaged volume of Joe Strummer’s musical career. Charles DJ Deppner reflects.
Pecker (Ghoul Tone Records). Review by Charles DJ Deppner.
The fact that the band Slaves to Sirens exists is impressive, but that they live, love, and breathe to play metal takes things to another level. Sirens documents the journey. Review by Charles DJ Deppner.
Charles DJ Deppner reviews Carl King’s look back at an amusement park made for robots, aliens, and The Dawn of Sir Millard Mulch.
A Foul Form (Castleface Records). Review by Charles DJ Deppner.
Scream (Dorado Records). Review by Charles DJ Deppner.
In Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, a former late-night television host takes to podcasts and wages a merciless war in the making of friends. Review by Charles D.J. Deppner.
Halloween Nuggets (Liberation Hall). Review by Charles D.J. Deppner.
Feel The Void (Equal Vision Records). Review by Charles D.J. Deppner.
With Slim gone, we are defenseless against Mars. Charles DJ Deppner details all the other things we’ll miss.
Charles D.J. Deppner talks with Curt Kirkwood about holding the strings of the Meat Puppets together with love, passion, fate, and sheer luck.
With turban and sans crystal ball, Jihad Jerry (Gerald V. Casale) gazes into our collective future and passes on his visions to Charles D.J. Deppner.
Various Artists (Kill Rock Stars). Review by Charles D.J. Deppner.
Event Review by Charles D.J. Deppner
Feature by Charles D.J. Deppner
Interview by Charles D.J. Deppner
The ’90s Suck and So Do You (Triple X). Review by Charles D.J. Deppner
Supercollider (Man’s Ruin). Review by Charles D.J. Deppner
Print Review by Charles D.J. Deppner
Feature by Charles D.J. Deppner
Four local bands lit up Melbourne, Florida at the Pineapples Moon Room. The lineup, presented by Red Eye Booking, included London on Fire, The Speed Spirits, and Dunies, all from in Melbourne, and special guest, Orlando band Better Than This.
In this episode, Jeremy Glazier talks with Noah Lekas of the band American Restless, who draws on his Midwest roots for inspiration.
A young man with a mental condition struggles to understand the world.
This week, Christopher Long pulls up at a neighborhood garage sale and picks up his fourth vinyl copy of Song of Joy, the 1976 platinum slab from the Captain & Tennille.
Mikko Niskanen’s recently restored 1972 mini-series Eight Deadly Shots is a complex look at the real-life murders of four police officers in the farming community of Sääksmäki, Finland, in March 1969. Lily and Generoso review the powerful fictionalized adaptation of this tragic incident.
Lily and Generoso review Smoking Causes Coughing, the newest creation from surrealist comic genius Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Mandibles) that follows the adventures and storytelling endeavors of the kaiju-fighting Tobacco Force!
Ink 19’s Roi J. Tamkin reviews Drumming With Dead Can Dance and Parallel Adventures, Peter Ulrich’s memoir of an artistic life fueled by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard’s remarkable friendship.
Tymisha Harris tells the story of Josephine Baker with the perfect mix of theater, history, and jazz in Josephine: A Burlesque Cabaret Dream Play.