When forming a supergroup or side project, it’s important to be distinctive. The new project should have its own legs, serving up different melodies, arrangements, and/or genres that are far different from the bands that made them famous. DREAMCAR, featuring No Doubt’s Tony Kanal (bass), Adrian Young (drums) and Tom Dumont (guitar), along with AFI’s…
There is a Golden Girls-themed Clue game coming out soon. What else could you people possibly need to know!? According to USAopoly: The Golden Girls Clue® features a custom illustrated game board, where players attempt to solve the crime of WHO ate the last piece cheesecake, WHAT they left at the scene of the crime,…
There are a lot of elements that make a zombie film thrilling: characters and relationships we care deeply about, a true sense of survivalism, trendsetting cinematography and makeup, etc. Train to Busan, a South Korean film directed by Yeon Sang-ho, has all of these and more. In fact, Busan does so many things right that we…
It’s been over seven years since Murdoc, 2-D, Russel, and Noodle took up residence in Plastic Beach. Now, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett (the real life brains behind the digital band Gorillaz) have returned with Humanz, an expansive new album that seeks to challenge not only their own sound, but also the political climate. When…
Charly Bliss’ infectious power-pop oozes sun-soaked youthful energy, like something you’d find on the Clueless soundtrack circa 1995. While there’s no denying the pop element of this foursome based in Brooklyn, more emphasis should be placed on the power aspect here; or rather, the “bubblegrunge,” as coined by the band, itself. I’m with that. On the recently released debut LP,…
Since the beginning of time, ’twas written in the stones that one day a band would come. Well that band has come and now they are here to cum again in your ear pussies. No, that band is not Tenacious D. That band is RADKEY. Radkey is a group of homeschooled brothers from St. Joseph,…
It feels like forever since we’ve been graced with anything new from Camp HAIM. The trio of sisters debuted two new cuts during least year’s festival circuit—”Give Me Just A Little of Your Love” and “Nothing’s Wrong”—as a sort of sneak peak to what was brewing in the studio, but since, they’ve been quiet. Today,…
In the last scene Jessica Lange (Joan Crawford) and Susan Sarandon (Bette Davis) appear in together, Crawford says, “I’m sorry I wasn’t more generous with you.” Davis replies, “I wish I’d been a friend to you.” But these words were never actually uttered in real life. For viewers of Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Bette and Joan,…
As much as I love Black Flag, it’s safe to say that I’m totally cool with having never interviewed Henry Rollins. In this 1984 backstage clip, a young kid had the grit to tackle an interview with one of the decade’s most hardcore punks. Rollins, the Black Flag frontman, absolutely destroys the poor kid, who,…
Two songs into her set at Hamden, Connecticut’s The Outer Space, the LA-based Aussie Betty Who is choked up and crying on stage. It’s the opening night of her Party in the Valley tour, celebrating her recently released sophomore record, The Valley, and despite the irony of just having performed a new song called “You Can…