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Friday Night ’80s. They play a song. Trivia, win a prize: what was the name of that song and who sang it? Commercials. “Hello caller, what was that song?” “Video Killed the Radio Star.” “Who sang it.” “I have no idea.” “It starts with The. And the letter B… (pause)… U…” “Keep spelling” “G…. (pause) [...]

Could it be I’m building some sort of reputation for reviewing demos/unsigned bands? I just got a random demo in the mail the other day, addressed specifically to me in care of White Trash Devil. Granted, I tend to primarily review demos because all the other guys on the site HOG all the really good [...]

Robert Plant’s new album is pretty damn rad. Particularly the cover of “Darkness, Darkness.” And yes, like most people, I’ve found most of Plant’s solo stuff to be pretty bland. So this isn’t just me sucking Plant’s dick, okay? One of our local rock stations has been playing it (Darkness, Darkness) like crazy, and I’ve [...]

I have less than 400 pages to go in the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock. It’s 1110 pages total, and I only read it during my lunch hour at work, and only when I’m not out babbling with some people. Of course, when I finish that one, I have the Musichound Guide to Rock, VH1′s [...]

Someone mentioned they wanted to see the Playgirl pictures of Peter Steele (that’s Type O Negative, for all you non metal kiddies out there). Someone (ME) happened to have said pictures. Problem: internet no-porn hosting policy! What is a girl to do? Why, Photoshop, that’s what. I’m not going to make a Sledge-O-Matic joke here.

I went out for a walk tonight, although I got started about 15 minutes later than I meant to. But I got to use my happy new mp3 player, which means I brought a cd-r with two albums of The Project Hate on it. Fucking wonderful walking music, that is, boy oh boy. And to [...]

The worst part about the lead singer of Drowning Pool kicking the bucket is that my mom loved them. I had to burn her a special CD that had “Bodies” on it because she couldn’t get enough of that song. It went ever so well with the Deep Purple, Sly and the Family Stone, and [...]

On my walk tonight (where I got rained on), I brought Nine Inch Nails’ The Fragile. This is particularly amusing for one huge reason: I bought it the same day that Dream Theater’s Scenes From a Memory was released (it had been released a couple weeks earlier I believe). This was the first time I’ve [...]

Albums listened to today and somewhat reviews: Terence Trent D’Arby: Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby I remember hearing “Sign Your Name” and “Wishing Well” when I was a wee little thing, barely knowledgable as to what was gonna happen to me with upcoming puberty. But holy hell, those songs woke me the [...]

I would like to mention that no matter how white-bread and suburban of a neighborhood you may be walking through, if NIN’s “A Warm Place” is playing on your headphones, suddenly the whole scene looks disturbing and sad.