POSTED // May 20,2013 - Ordinarily, hearing a pompous, condescending, presumably overeducated man bloviate and self-promote doesn’t provide for engaging entertainment. Being able to experience Damien Sandow doing said bloviating
POSTED // Apr 11,2013 - Dean Pleasants and Mike Muir’s relationship didn’t exactly have the most auspicious of beginnings. Sometime around the late 1980s, guitarist Pleasants and his pal/current Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo
POSTED // Apr 4,2013 - Tjutjuna’s Twitter page contains a description of the band’s music that’s as succinct as it is accurate. “Loud space rock” reads one line, followed by a second that says “the future”
POSTED // Feb 28,2013 - Danny Seim, Justin Harris and Brent Knopf have shared a bathtub. They have also donned Boy Scout uniforms, fed a pug at the dinner table, happily staged intra-band murder via go-kart, and donned antlers and flannel
POSTED // Nov 13,2012 - In late 2011, the Japandroids’ Brian King and David Prowse commemorated the completion of their latest full-length with dozens of firecrackers.
POSTED // Oct 18,2012 - Steven Ellison hates Superman. “He has too many powers,” Ellison reasons, and it’s “fucked up” that the only thing that can actually kill the hero is a rock found on a foreign planet.
POSTED // Sep 20,2012 - Ryeland Allison and Ariel Pink (born Rosenberg) first met around 2002, making each other’s acquaintance through mutual friends and sharing a stage at the now-defunct Los Angeles venue Spaceland.
POSTED // Aug 14,2012 - Where would Benjamin Laub be today if it wasn’t for the Wu? Around the late 1990s, the Chicago-born, Colorado-bred Laub was not the MC better known today as Grieves, but rather a kid who was seriously into punk rock.