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News Feed for Monday, June  5

News Feed for Monday, June 5

News Feed

In the news today: The Handsome Family, The Sawtooth Grin, Thin, Sunflo'er, Skrillex, Primavera Sound, Steve Vai, GWAR

Generation Axe

Generation Axe

Event Reviews

Generation Axe brought their spectacular shredder show to Orlando in December, and Michelle Wilson was right there among the fans to get her face melted off.

2Cellos

Music Reviews

In2ition (Sony Music Entertainment / Master Works). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Incubus

Music Reviews

If Not Now, When? (Epic Records). Review by Eli Didier.

An Interview with Metalocalypse Director Jon Schnepp

Interviews

Jon Schnepp talks with Ink 19’s Gail Worley about beating the censors, loving the metal, and Metalocalypse – a very metal dream come true – and Antonio Cannobio contributes exclusive Dethklok art (exclusive!). Bang your heads.

Blacklist

Interviews

Too young to be fully cognizant of the more embarrassing excesses of Gothic music over the past twenty years, the young Turks of NYC’s own Blacklist are, perhaps unwittingly, the best hope of redeeming Goth-metal. Fresh from a European tour complete with horned hotel antics, Blacklist frontman and provocateur Josh Strawn told Ink 19 all about how he learned to stop worrying and love Motorhead and Scott Walker equally.

Psyopus

Music Reviews

Our Puzzling Encounters Considered (Metal Blade Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Great Kat

Music Reviews

Wagner’s War (Blood and Guts Music). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Vernon Reid & Masque

Music Reviews

Living Colour,Jazz,fusion,free form,instrumental,experimental,groovy,Vernon Reid & Masque,Known Unknown,Favored Nations,Joe Frietze

G3

Music Reviews

Live - Rockin’ In The Free World (Epic). Review by Joe Frietze.

G3

Music Reviews

Joe Satriani,Steve Vai,Yngwie Malmsteen,electric guitar,high-flying solos,Eric Johnson,Potato Head Groove Thing,G3 - (Satriani/Vai/Malmsteen),Live - Rockin’ In The Free World,Epic,Joe Frietze

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Archikulture Digest

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Screen Reviews

Starting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).

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Screen Reviews

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Screen Reviews

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