X: The Unheard Music
A fittingly ambitious film for a fittingly artistic and poetic band.
A fittingly ambitious film for a fittingly artistic and poetic band.
Avengers (Water Records). Review by Scott Adams.
Mark Sultan takes a break from his other gig with King Khan to storm St. Augustine with his one-man band. Matthew Moyer assures us, it’s awesome – and there’s not a washboard or hat cymbal anywhere on the premises.
Mad Surgeons, pools of red vomit, and enough guitar feedback to make your ears bleed. Exhumed gives Matthew Moyer a reason to walk in to a Cannibal Corpse show.
What happens when the Muppets take a whole lot of drugs and partner up with an avant garde musician? Something along the lines of Quintron and Miss Pussycat. Matthew Moyer reveled in the unearthly delights.
With a razor-sharp memory and conversational writing style, L.A. punk pioneer Alice Bag recounts her musical obsession.
Matthew Moyer thinks Dave Thompson’s Patti Smith bio just might tide you over until Smith delivers on the promised second volume of her memoir.
Dan Sartain doesn’t really care if you know his name, or any of the songs he plays. He just came to remind you that rock ‘n’ roll can still be unsettling… and Matthew Moyer LOVES it.
Brett Callwood’s comprehensive book on the criminally overlooked Stooges doesn’t, this time, focus completely on Iggy Pop.
See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody tells Bob Mould’s entire story – from his abusive childhood to his coming out as a gay man, filled with details and anecdotes from his 50-plus years.
Music’s not for Everyone (K). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Live clips and interviews from Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Redd Kross and Twisted Roots.
A mixture of interview audio and incidental footage, About A Son allows rockdom’s left handed martyr to tell his own story. Matthew Moyer appreciates the minimalism.
Back to the Basement (Asian Man Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
The net result of plowing through a weighty tome like this is a sense of awe at how a bunch of kids created their own culture whole cloth, like the music industry on a Utopian, communal, microcosmic level.
GG Allin, bad boy of punk rock, terrorized audiences in Boston and Seattle. You’re going to want to clean your tongue after this one.
The history of teeny, tiny labels that launched some really big bands. Before the out-crowd became the in-crowd.
Loud Fast Rules (ROIR). Review by Scott Adams.
Old school skateboarding thrash punks Suicidal Tendencies stopped by Orlando with Hed PE to wax political. It was a ruckus not to be missed – and Eric Donath did not.
No Mercy Fool/The Suicidal Family (Suicidal). Review by Matthew Moyer.
With his latest book, What This Comedian Said Will Shock You, celebrated stand-up Jedi Bill Maher “shocks” readers by doing the most outrageous, unthinkable, and socially unacceptable thing imaginable: he speaks rationally, logically, and objectively.
Gasoline Lollipops’ newest single, “Freedom Don’t Come Easy,” is today’s mother lovin’ punk rock folk anthem.
Frank Henenlotter’s gory grindhouse classic Basket Case looks as grimy as the streets of Times Square, and that is one of the film’s greatest assets. Arrow Video gives this unlikely candidate a welcome fresh release.
Despite the Mother’s Day factor, hundreds of fervent, faithful followers still flocked to Orlando’s famed Plaza Live to catch an earlybird set from Jimmy Failla — one of the hottest names on today’s national comedy scene.
Ink 19 readers get an early listen and look at “Cool Sparkling Water,” a new single from Lonnie Walker.
Jeremy Glazier has a bucket list day at a Los Lobos 50th Anniversary show in Davenport, Iowa.
Carl F. Gauze reviews the not-quite one-woman show, Always… Patsy Cline, based on the true story of Cline’s friendship with Louise Seger, who met the star in l961 and corresponded with Cline until her death.
Carl F. Gauze reviews this interesting look at the surprising history and scandalous etymology of jazz, in Weird Music That Goes On Forever, by Bob Suren.