It’s April 5th. A rainstorm rolls in from the south, the wind blowing the grass in the fields, and the skies darkening over the low hills and woods. We are in the farmhouse—the rooms dark at noon like Victorian parlors. No, not like that. Like something else. This is no time except now, and ours. MORE…
Excerpt from the novella Locust House At the time I had a job as a reporter for a small wire service in Hillcrest and Frankie worked as an endoscopy clinic receptionist up in La Jolla. Our lives weren’t bad, but the nine to five sucked it out of us. It made us feel slow inside, MORE…
SATANIC PLANET is the creation of Lucien Greaves (The Satanic Temple co-founder and spokesperson), Luke Henshaw (Planet B, Sonido de la Frontera), Dave Lombardo (Slayer, The Misfits, Mr. Bungle, Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Cross), and Justin Pearson (The Locust, Dead Cross, Swing Kids, Deaf Club). With the birth of Satanic Planet, hip-hop producer Henshaw and punk MORE…
The wind blew like hell all night. This morning it’s sunny and the fields are green from all the rain, but the wind is still strong as I make breakfast for us in the kitchen and watch the trees lash in the breeze. We talk about wind while I cook—the relentlessness or the restlessness of MORE…
In a world where life often sucks and where disappointment is the special menu item of the day, dropping yourself into the weird, fucked-up, beautiful world of Kool Keith is a comforting thing. It shouldn’t be. This shit should freak you out and make you dizzy like a carnival ride, but as the modern day MORE…
“Goat headed, human bodied, and three-horned, the Baphomet is an icon symbolizing the reconciliation of opposites; dueling binaries combined and transcending into something greater than the sum of their parts. The track we have titled Baphomet blends the electronic with the medieval, the drone with the sceam, the raucous with the orchestral. These conflicting elements, MORE…
“Years ago,” is what I keep thinking. Years ago back home, and years ago people I knew, and years ago how it was. “How it was,” is another one. How it was before the shootings, before the virus, before I left. How it was. Life is quiet now. The rain speckling the window. A view MORE…
Note: this is an excerpt from the book Locust House Chapter 1 Looking back, Agnes McCanty would come to see March 29th, 2002 as a day broken into three stages: 1) Standing at the gravesite of Michael the Bear. 2) A view of the sea from atop the rollercoaster then sex with Steven Boone in MORE…
Of all Eric Paul’s bands (Arab on Radar, Doomsday Student, etc) The Chinese Stars are the catchiest, sanest, and most likely to win fans and influence weirdos. Which isn’t to say TCS is sane or catchy or influential in any traditional sense. This band (which also includes drummer Craig Kureck, guitarist Paul Vieira, and bassist/keyboardist MORE…
Ground Unicorn Horn gave us two songs before stepping back behind the veil, and for a lot of bands that wouldn’t amount to much–a drip of piss in the infinite toilet that is the music industry; a whisper in the hurricane that is the collected voice of humanity’s grand achievement. Thing is, this band and MORE…