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Website: Dirty Rig The Inside Pulse: Enter Dirty Rig: a backwoods, filthy, drug-addled band of miscreants, creating their music for the sake of art about as much as Rob Zombie makes horror films to win Oscars. Picking up Kory Clarke (ex-Warrior Soul) as frontman, Dirty Rig seems revitalized from their 2004 debut and more in-your-face [...]

It’s rarely rocket science trying to figure out what to give to me as a gift. Oh, sure, I enjoy reading non-music books sometimes and gift certificates are always appreciated. I won’t even wince too hard if I’m assaulted with a set of soaps — it is nice to smell pretty, and beggars can’t be [...]

Speak and Spell Music For the Masses Violator Website: Depeche Mode The Inside Pulse: Although often overlooked in the faces of other ’80s mega-stars like U2 and Bon Jovi, Depeche Mode used to play the same arenas and sell a good chunk of albums in their own right. Whether to celebrate the band or to [...]

Last night was the big posh party for MPLSart.com’s grand opening, and the featured act was Lolly Pop. This meant a whole lot of frantic… stuff. We drove to the warehouse venue in northeast Minneapolis and set everything up (no sound person, so it was the clump of us working together to make things sound [...]

Sooooo, last night John and I went out to dinner with his mother, followed by a smidgen of shopping. But that’s the boring part. The cool part is what my mother-in-law gave me for my birthday: a huge box of 45s. When I say huge, it’s probably about 200 of ‘em. And while about half [...]

So, yeah, yesterday was John’s birthday, whee! We headed out to Club Underground to see Heliosphere. Also playing were Signal & Report and Black Tie Dynasty. Okay, so Heliosphere is always good even if Bill is calling me out from the stage to dance (noooooooooooooooooooooooooo). I can’t complain though. At least not about Heliosphere. Signal [...]

Website: Pet Shop Boys The Inside Pulse: Still releasing new material after over twenty years, the duo of Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant hold steady with Fundamental. Continuing to create the same music they have been releasing for years, there’s no mistaking this is Pet Shop Boys in every aspect. Positives: If you’re a Pet [...]

It’s been a while since I sat down with a healthy chunk of MySpace bands and gave them the once-over. Whether you’re here to check out someone fascinating or gawk at a train wreck, you will surely be accommodated. I mean, it is MySpace after all. If you or someone you know has a band [...]

Tagged by Pete: List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what [...]

Website: Front Line Assembly The Inside Pulse: While electro-industrial stalwarts Front Line Assembly have come and gone over the years with a prolific but scattered catalog, Artificial Soldier brings them back to the forefront of the industrial realm. Being forefathers of the genre, one would expect a maintained sound over the years; however, this latest [...]