There are many reasons you should check out Nick Zinner and Justin Pearson’s project More Pain. Here are seven of them. 1) This record was released two years ago today. Birthdays are fun. Light candles then blow them out. Eat cake. Celebrate good shit that has happened and do so whenever you can because bad MORE…
Put DJ crew Invisibl Skratch Piklz and Planet B on one record and you are given music that is like two comets crashing together, but instead of a terrible explosion, they become one giant comet and light up the sky like nothin’ you’ve ever seen. Opening with a Wesley Willis sample, this four-song collection features MORE…
It’s a tricky line to walk. You think about the future too often and you stop living in the present. You don’t think about the future enough and you will be ill-equipped to deal with the smallest problems of tomorrow. I run through disaster scenarios and I think of the worst possible thing that could MORE…
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…