In addition to fronting PUP (who just released their This Place Sucks Ass EP) and running his Little Dipper label, Stefan Babcock will be releasing a children's book… for adults. It's called Rupert Reaper and the Search for Happiness. The… Read More
Elvis Costello is making the rounds, virtually, promoting his new album, Hey Clockface, which is out Friday. He appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night, where he chatted as his usual witty, erudite self, and played… Read More
Halloween is on a Saturday this year, it'll be the first full moon on Halloween in all US time zones in 76 years (and a rare blue moon), and daylight savings time is making Halloween night one hour longer than… Read More
“All the pressure you never applied / Can’t be asleep at the wheel / But something had already died / And something had lost its appeal.” So sings lead songwriter John Paul Pitts on “Dessert Island”, the opening track of… Read More
Our previous installment of Dread Reckoning, “Horrors in the Closet: A Closet Full of Monsters” describes how, within the context of horror culture, the construction of non-heteronormative sexual identities exhibits a telling duality. That is; because of the impurity and… Read More
“The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.” —William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890) Philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910) was interested in the epistemological question… Read More
Rage Against The Machine's tour supporting their third LP, The Battle of Los Angeles, hit Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City exactly twenty-one years ago today, on October 28, 1999. The show was filmed and released as a VHS… Read More
NJ's Turning Point only existed for three years (1988-1991) and only released one album, a demo, a 7", and a split, but they went on to be massively influential and their music still inspires new bands today. Their increasingly melodic… Read More
Descendents frontman Milo Aukerman recently released a very political three-song single with his solo ukulele project, saying that the songs were originally intended for the next Descendents album, but that he felt they were too time-sensitive to wait and needed… Read More
15. Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing [1998] Placebo have never really been taken as a serious band. Probably because of lead singer Brian Molko’s ridiculously nasal delivery and the group’s propensity to sing about the recreational drug use. Underlying Placebo’s… Read More