‘Sour Yellow Sounds Inside My Head’ – The Cure’s Pornography at 40
If the first lines of albums can be interpreted as statements of intent, the opening words of The...
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Lounge Lizards: John Leslie, Bill Heid and the Music of Chameleons (1992)
As much as the mainstream and adult film businesses are separate entities, the two certainly share...
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Into The Infernal: Boards Of Canada’s Geogaddi
In February 2002, the Scottish electronic duo Boards Of Canada released Geogaddi, their second...
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Noir & B: The Sultry Sound of Slow Grind Fever (Vols. 1-4)
In the years after World War II, American product flood a world hungry for something other than...
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Sketches of Jess: Jess Franco’s Directions in B-Film Jazz
Jess Franco may best be remembered as a visualist, being one of the most prolific filmmakers of...
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Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike: Kayo Dot’s Return to the Well
June of 2021 marked the 20th anniversary of American progressive metal pioneers Maudlin of the...
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Hubris, Megalomania, and Bombastic Presentation: Guns N’ Roses and the Art of the Music Video
The Use Your Illusion (1991) double album from Guns N’ Roses recently turned thirty. Considering...
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Electronic Voyager: In Praise of Ruth White
“Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New.”Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal Pioneers are a...
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Why Can’t I Wither Inside This Dream? The Outré Sounds of Nuclear Death’s The Planet Cachexial (1996) and Harmony Drinks of Me (2000)
To the untrained ears, all forms of extreme metal might sound a bit experimental. At least in the...
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Heavy Medications Lapse: Eyehategod’s A History of Nomadic Behavior (2021)
When asked in February of 2020 if there was any secret to his bands 30+ years worth of longevity,...
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Slave to the Grind (1991): Skid Row and the Discontent of Social Classes
The term “hair metal” is one that I find misleading and wildly inaccurate. All too often it’s used...
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Brazillian Metal and the use of Subversion and Satanic Imagery in Defiance of Oppression
As someone who lives in the United States, I look back to the era of what’s often called “Satanic...
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