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Yesterday, after my mom had come home from a weekend of being in Galena and therefore removed from the rest of society as a whole, I was attempting to inform her that Lou Thesz and Wahoo McDaniel died (yes, we’re a whole wrestling nerd family). However, I couldn’t remember Wahoo McDaniel for some reason. The [...]

Korn’s original 4-song demo is really… different. Some of it is almost prog-metal, sort of a more accessible and updated tech-death kinda thing. Some 15/16 time signatures, for crying out loud… what the fuck? Of the four songs, three were on the debut album. A pretty neat find. Rhapsody is quite possibly the silliest band [...]

I have this one album in particular that is getting shitloads of repeated play on my computer right now: The Best of ’60s Psychedelic Rock. Here is the track list, and some notes: 1. Steppenwolf: Magic Carpet Ride – I can’t hear this song enough times. It just fucking rules all over the place. I [...]

Whoaboy. The new Rush album, Vapor Trail, kicks SO MUCH ASS. How do I put this… Rush has some fierceness back in their music. A little darker, a little harder than anything I’ve heard from them in years. They just seem to have acquired more energy since they’ve been on hiatus — the music is [...]

VH1 CLASSIC JUST PLAYED DREAM THEATER’S “PULL ME UNDER.” I shit you not. You know what’s even MORE wonderful? I’ve watched so much fucking VH1 Classic that I know all of their videos play and repeat in 8 hour blocks. So, since it played at about 5:05pm CST, it will play again at 1:05am CST. [...]

From the time when I was in 5th grade through 8th grade, my mom was in college. My sister was four grades behind me, and my brother 6 grades behind me. We were on welfare and surviving pretty well for as far as I could tell. I mean, I always knew we were dirt-ass poor, [...]

Review: Andrew W.K. “I Get Wet” I am listening to that fucking Andrew W.K. album. I am on song four and I would like to kill myself. Seriously, people. Don’t let them fool you with that “new face of metal” crap. Three chords (and not in a good way), FAR too many keyboards (this isn’t [...]