Part 1 On long nights sweating through a book deadline, I think of the Bob Seger song that goes, “Those drifter’s days are passed me now/I’ve got so much more to think about/Deadlines and commitments/What to leave in, what to leave out.” I try to write my own version of that but also to say, MORE…
Life is very short and it’s easy to lose it (your life, I mean) and today I find myself thinking of necessary things. What I mean by that is those books or ideas or records or whatever else that you without a doubt NEED and must have in close proximity in a very existential way. MORE…
SQUID PISSER “My Tadpole Legion” from the My Tadpole Legion LP Available here. Directed and Animated by: Juicy Jaden of THE FLESH FILES Editing and VFX by: Tommy Meehan Squid Footage Filmed by : Mike Manasewitsch of www.blockbustervideo.org SQUID PISSER eviscerates the ego and and all things serene with their own vibrant form of vicious MORE…
Note: excerpt from the new Adam Gnade novel The Internet Newspaper Cassidy and I float in the pool. We hold onto the edge, the heated water steaming in the darkness around us. I close my eyes and kick my feet behind me, just enough to feel my muscles move. “You tired?” she says quietly, her MORE…
Note: this is an excerpt from the new Adam Gnade novel The Internet Newspaper At Lil’ Cassidy’s housesitting house we take shots of expensive Japanese whiskey then she demands we make snow angels in the white shag carpet. As we do them, Cass sings, “Santa baby, I want a yacht and really that’s not a MORE…
SQUID PISSER – “The Everlasting Bloat” from MY TADPOLE LEGION LP Tommy Meehan (Deaf Club) and Seth Carolina (Starcrawler) team up with Nicky Calonne (Nekrogoblikon) on the second single from their debut LP release, “My Tadpole Legion”. Synopsis: The Squid Boys disguise themselves as Cow People, People from the Future, and even lampshades as they MORE…
ZEUS! is so unbelievable heavy it’s almost unmusical. Which is not to say there’s no melody or that it’s not catchy (their Opera LP is all of this and more). Just that, when you hear this Italian duo play together, you don’t think of a band. You think of power, mountains, strength, force. It’s an MORE…
SQUID PISSER eviscerates the ego and and all things serene with their own vibrant form of vicious and mucky hardcore. Slamming down dolphin corpses at breakneck speeds, the duo, which is comprised of Tommy Meehan on guitar (Deaf Club, Cancer Christ, Sweatband Records, Cartoon Network) and Seth Carolina (Starcrawler), have constructed a fresh and mucousy MORE…
Venamoris – Drown in Emotion LP Venamoris was founded in 2021 by what can only be called astral influence. Married couple Paula and Dave (Slayer, Fantômas, Testament, Mr. Bungle, Misfits, Dead Cross) Lombardo formed Venamoris as a result of some persistent persuasion on the latter’s part. Dave, who is in charge of drums and production MORE…
Maybe it’s because I’m home in San Diego this week and the sunshine is tripping me out after a long winter on the farm but right now Retox feels like the brutal dark punk Beach Boys. It’s a beautiful, warm day where I’m at, the sun hot on the back of my fake leather jacket, MORE…