Volume 14 Issue 8
Fetch The Pliers
Iron Lung are two moody, bearded guys from Seattle who play a kind of music called "power violence". Pioneered in the early 90s, this genre of punk was a kick in the ass for the joke of what hardcore had become thanks to snowboarding, metalcore bands...
One Rape, Please (to Go)
I blame my recurring rape fantasy on the fact that I'm a feminist. I've never made any bones about getting boned in exactly the fashion that I want. But as a girl, my equipment can be trickier to manage, therefore I need to be a boss in the bedroom to...
Games
SHADOWRUNIf you can get past the highly Smashing-Pumpkins-video-esque box art enough to get this into your console and join a live game, you will find a really strange world of
Electric Independence
We first encountered Teenage Bad Girl in May when we went to Dijon for a party Vitalic had organised for the ravers of his hometown. The event was called Carte Blanche and local hero Vitalic—Pascal Arbez—could book whoever he wanted, within reason, to...
Frat Attack
It has always blown my mind how the US college basketball teams manage to get crowds of squillions of people and have like their own trading cards and stuff. My college football team found it hard getting the coach to turn up to matches. But I guess it...
Drum Dream
On 7/7/07, the Boredoms put on a crazy, already-legendary concert under the Brooklyn Bridge with 77 drummers spiraling out from a humongous guitar gong that Boredoms leader Yamataka Eye struck with a giant trident scepter. It was, according to all who...
Ain't No Fun
What happened? Last summer it felt like we were on the verge of something great. Bands were being exciting and original and kids were putting on parties in squats. Every weekend was like a holiday you wanted to go on forever. A whole year later and we...
Wankfest Overload
Guitar solos are ruling. No matter how much some old guy in the pub dribbling into his bitter at closing time goes on about how important three-chords and '76 and blah and blah and blah, solos are still a massively important part of guitar rock. That's...
Adaptable Band
Four years ago Kill Boogie were called Solar Crete. Back then the three-piece lived in Brisbane, in a house where Kylie Minogue filmed part of The Delinquents. When their original bassist (a trained sax player) left, awesome guitarist Thomas Madden was...
Doomsday Metal
The connection between extreme metal and Eddie Meduza, the lewd god of homemade, Swedish slapstick music, is muddy at best. Still, a lot of metalheads secretly worship him, and there are devoted fans in bands like Hypocrisy and Necrophobic. Maybe it's...
The Birth Of Trance-hop
I remember reading a Lil Jon interview a few years ago where he was talking about how ecstasy was seeping into the Dirty South hip-hop scene, mainly through strip clubs. What happened was club owners would give girls pills to keep them dancing all...