An astonishingly cynical and realistic view of how (not) to make it in Rock and Roll. Told from a European perspective, in German, Mit Untertiteln.

La Grande Cantarice Malienne Vol. Three (Awesome Tapes from Africa). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Cosmetic Liquor Love Songs EP. Review by Al Pergande.

Take a trip back to Seattle’s musical heydey with Michael Lavine , who brings us all manner of visual treasure with Grunge.

Kicking off Ink 19’s new series, Labels We Love, S D Green talks to ZE Records co-founder Michel Esteban about defining a sound and establishing a label during New York’s 1970s creative zeitgeist, and the resurrection of the label that was once home to Lydia Lunch, Suicide, and Kid Creole & the Coconuts.

Shut Up and Bleed (Atavistic Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

From gothic siren to torch singer, Gitane Demone has been through it all. This new double-disc DVD collection chronicles the many phases and changes of her long and overlooked life and art.

Rose Petralia takes an evil stroll through Toronto’s dark underbelly with Toronto Noir.

Multimedia provocateur and no-wave icon Lydia Lunch’s tell-all will jar even the jaded. Tom “Tearaway” Schulte already feels dirty.

Matthew Moyer is glad that Holly George-Warren and the other compilers of this coffeetable-riffic collection of punk photos fetishize image as much as he does.

Lydia Lunch madness continues with Shellton Hull’s interview, as featured in today’s Minority Report.

Daniel Mitchell fights the nervous jitters as he speaks to cultural icon Lydia Lunch…

Daniel Mitchell enjoys the occasional musico-archaelogical jaunt through the wonderful world of Ohio record shop dollar bins; what follows are his top 19 finds of 2003.

1978-1981 (Acute). Review by Bryan Slipperfield.

& (eggBERT). Review by Giorgio Portagrier.

Pleasure Forever (Sub Pop). Review by Nathan T. Birk.

Writer, musician, actor, and spoken-word artist Lydia Lunch is known as someone who doesn’t mince words, and she lived up to that reputation in talking with Shelton Hull about politics, feminism, pornography, and more.