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Dan Lee Clark “Nitro” Is there anything more nineties than watching spandexed jocks dueling with oversized q-tips for a studio audience? Not if you remember American Gladiators, the TV show where amateur athletes performed feats of strength, agility, and yes, some strategy, against superhero-bodied “gladiators” whose job it was to deliver beatdowns, all on a [...]
It’s not often that the cacophony of everyday ecstasies, neuroses and anxieties is accurately captured in music with the precision and innovation as Clipd Beak’s debut album Hoarse Lords.
TENDER BUTTONS @ LOW END THEORY LA Record WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 2007: With his handlebar mustache curling up at the ends, Zack Wentz from Tender Buttons wailed out low tones into a vintage microphone, while reverse skunk-haired Kate Wince triggered the galloping beats and early ’90s industrial rhythms that dominated their Wednesday set at the [...]
Valerie Bertinelli to Write Memoir By Drew Tewksbury Originally posted Wednesday July 11, 2007 08:30 AM EDT Valerie Bertinelli has held many titles: sitcom star, rock-star wife – and now, author. Bertinelli, 47, who talked to PEOPLE in April about her weight battle, will write a memoir called “Losing It: And Gaining My Life [...]
In DIRTY FOUND magazine, however, the arc of desire is explored not through dreams but through found high-school notes, Polaroid crotch shots and twisted grocery lists all assembled into an anthology of anthropornography.
Punks Jump Up are DJs David and Joe, Swedish and English, respectively. Their beats could make your dead grandma shake that ass.
“Green” carpet interview with Cameron Diaz at the premiere of Shrek 3
EARTHLESS / PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT @ SIXTH STREET GALLERY LA Record FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2007: The Psychic Paramount, from New York, create a swell of sound meshed with the tumbling inertia of freight-train bass and bombastic beats. Their experimental instrumentals surge with intensity as every riff and rhythm interlock into a rising tide, growing louder with [...]
THE LOCUST / DAUGHTERS / CATTLE DECAPITATION @ KNITTING FACTORY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28: The first time I saw The Locust, I ended up at the hospital. Although the gift of my bleeding skull came from a guitar belonging to the Dillinger Escape Plan, images of the Locust were bubbling through my brain as fast as [...]
The Horrors at the Echo LA Record: MONDAY, MARCH 19 2007: If in some strange future world, someone looked into an expansive compendium of music from the 21st century, under the heading “Nightmare-Mod-Rock” would be a single photo of The Horrors. Yet at the U.K. band’s first show in Los Angeles, they probably resembled the [...]
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS @ THE EL REY LA Record SUNDAY, MARCH 11: The bulk of the Mountain Goats’ music is fueled by the expansive imagination and playful lyricism of signer/ songwriter John Darnielle, and this show at the El Rey Theater provided a glimpse into the troubled relationships, suburban backyards, and tightly knit communities populating [...]
Punk ’77 Review by Drew Tewksbury, Flaunt Magazine, February 2007 Long before T-shirts emblazoned with the sequined likenesses of Johnny Rottens appeared in Hot Topic stores, punk was as a reaction to the commodified rock-’n’-roll culture of which, ironically, it is now a part. In 1977, punk was anything but mall fodder, or at least [...]
It’s no secret that Los Angeles is a city torn in two. Like any city, Los Angeles is awash with half-truths and half-remembered lies, geographically and ideologically bisected into separate but equally imagined parts: the good parts of town and the bad parts of town.
Straight Outta Cambodia By Drew Tewksbury LA Alternative Press, August 28th, 2005 It was on this day nearly 35 years ago that Dengue Fever was born into a thousand Cambodian homes. In one home, a seemingly normal Cambodian kid sits poised, guitar in hand, eyes locked on small AM radio emitting the strange sounds of [...]