The Worley Gig

Tardon as The Resident and Gail as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark at one of Ken’s infamous Halloween parties, way back in the eighties…

  
Morrissey Rocks the Hammerstein Ballroom
Back in nineteen eighty blah blah, I can remember being the most obsessed, fanatically nerdy of Smiths fan: scouring the tiny “import” record stores of south Orange County for ridiculously expensive Japanese copies of Hatful of Hollow and shrieking hysterically at Smiths concerts like a pre-teen Beatles fan at the Fab [...]

October 20, 2007 FRANCE - Ministry’s bassist Paul Raven was found dead today in a private home in a small French village on the Swiss border. Initial reports indicate Raven’s passing was due to a heart attack. Raven (known also for his work with Killing Joke, Prong) was in Geneva working with French recording artists [...]

In The Running for Album Of The Year: Silverchair’s Young Modern
Jesus god, who would have imagined that Australian’s most successful rock band ever could have progressed from sounding like a juvenille, more depressed version of Nirvana to becoming Roxy Music for the aughts? Silverchair’s latest CD, Young Modern, comes off like a heady, glossy amalgam [...]

These Drums Could Be Yours
Neal Smith, original drummer for the band Alice Cooper is selling his historic Mirrored Premier Drum Set. This is the very first set ever of completely mirrored drums. The kit includes 19 drums total with four bass drums: The two originals from the financial-record setting 1973 Billion Dollar Babies tour, and [...]

Jason Schwartzman, Adrian Brody and Owen Wilson Star in The Darjeeling Limited
Highway robbery at the ticket window be damned, I see a lot of movies in the theater. That’s probably one of the reasons why I can never seem to accumulate more than a dozen films in my Netflix queue at any one time. [...]

In this exclusive interview for Ink 19.com, Shadows Fall drummer Jason Bittner talks to Gail Worley about his band’s emergence from the metal underground to land a major label deal with Atlantic Records, his surprising musical roots and why the staff of any Holiday Inn might appreciate having Jason around if the drummer in their [...]

John Mania!
Today John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono unveils the John Lennon Imagine Peace Tower in Rekjavik, Iceland on what would have been the late Beatle’s 67th birthday. Happy Birthday, John!
It’s also the birthday of one of my very favorite people, Al Jourgenson of Ministry (“Apply directly to the forehead…”). Happy Birthday, Al!

Behold: The Sand Room
Tracy and I went to see British artist Mike Nelson’s “A Psychic Vacuum” Installation / Exhibit today and it was AWESOME! While the installation is pretty indescribable, if I was forced to describe the experience of being inside the “Psychic Vacuum” I’d say it was like a combination of a nightmare, [...]

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