The new video for Frontline Assembly’s Shifting through the Lens is the fetish video industrial bands always flirt with but almost never do. The Shifting Through the Lens vid stars Julie Simone. In the music video, she plays a hot latex-clad video vixen, a domina, a cameraman, and a fetish director. In real life, Julie […]
Sorry I haven’t updated in a few days. I was scheduled to announce the release of my fabulous anthology Backstage Passes on Monday. But I was wracked with anxiety and inappropriate affect, so, instead of feeling celebratory about the awesomeness, I just mostly felt nervous and queasy. Excited contributors have all been emailing me for […]
Future generations are going to study the decades after the popularization of internet interaction turned most of the population into emo feuding crybabies and shake their heads in disbelief. Apparently, back in May, Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance called Peter Murphy of Bauhaus “a sandwich short of a picnic”. Brendan Perry of course posted […]
The band Everclear is kicking off a tour in promotion of their forthcoming In a Different Light album this fall. The first single from the album “Here Comes the Darkness” is already available. My favorite Everclear song is the non-obscure “I Will Buy You A New Life” one, with Art Alexakis’s soulful heartstring-tugging voice painting […]
kaRIN and Statik from Collide are very excited their song “Slither Thing” will be used in this week’s upcoming episode of True Blood, the second episode of the new season. I believe KCRW radio DJ Gary Calamar is still the music supervisor for True Blood and these sorts of music choices are just one of […]
Forrest Black and I shot Prince Poppycock a while back. Our friend Sabrina hipped us to his excellent existence and Xian booked him for stuff. Apparently he is on America’s Got Talent and is all the buzz right now. The universe conforms more to my personal aesthetic every day. My will is law.
I first came across Guns n’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction when I was a teenage metal DJ on the radio in Connecticut. A little background explanation: I got into doing this gig partly because I’d gone to high school overseas and the American overseas high schools I attended were woefully behind the times when it […]