Chente Ramirez and I are eating al pastor in Tijuana on a Monday afternoon after drinking all day at clubs like Safari, Escape, and Peanuts and Beer where it’s dark as night inside and the blacklight is on and everything white glows neon green, even your teeth as the waiter grabs your head and blows MORE…
Deaf Club “If You Eat A Rat, It Might Taste Good” from the band’s Bad Songs Forever EP. Directed & edited by Dark Details. Filmed by Mike Manasewitsch and Becky DiGiglio. Having just released their debut LP, Productive Disruption, in January of 2022, Deaf Club wasted no time in the relentless pursuit of perfecting sci MORE…
That night after the reading we’re in a country bar down by the river and the bartender is buying our drinks. Why, we’re not sure, but it’s tequila sunrise after tequila sunrise and I’ve fed ten bucks into the jukebox to play every version of “Carmelita” in a row then every Townes song they’ve got. MORE…
Backyard Surgery Green vinyl is limited to 200 copies. 2005 saw the Ipecac Recordings/Radio Surgery release of The Locust’s “Safety Second, Body Last,” the follow-up EP to their acclaimed album, “Plague Soundscapes.” The concept for SSBL has been explained as one 10-minute song split into two tracks, each of which is further dissected into separate MORE…
The concept of Cult and Culture began as a short segment created by Justin Pearson, an internationally known musician, record label owner (Three One G Records), author, and actor. He is best known as bassist/vocalist for bands such as Dead Cross, The Locust, and Retox. Justin has come to know and work with a broad MORE…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the things that unite us. When I say “us” I don’t mean the global or universal us but the us of those close to me, those in my small circle (a circle that’s both grown smaller and closer lately). There’s a lot of shared landmarks among those I MORE…
I have wanted this tattoo since I was 15 years old. I’d always put it off for one reason or another, but now, it needed to be done. The first encounter I can remember with Gabe was while I was pissing in the Che Cafe bathroom. He came up behind me and asked me and MORE…
Haunted Horses is an industrial-punk duo hailing from Seattle, WA. Their sound is thunderous and chaotic, utilizing wall of noise techniques through an onslaught of keys, guitars and drums. Myke Pelly’s off kilter drumming and Colin Dawson’s architectural noise structures create jittery post-punk that is both upbeat and gloomy. Most recently, the band enlisted Seattle-based MORE…