RAB Radio #36: Bitchschool
My musical confederates: A new Ribbon Around a Bomb podcast is available for streaming or download. [Lydia Lunch] In this week’s installment, DJ Ashtray and I are joined by local … Continue reading
Noisegasm: Yeastie Girlz
I have a confession. I know I’m not supposed to, I know this makes me a bad/lame person, but… I sort of hate Berkeley and most things of the well-known … Continue reading
Noisegasm: Mögel
Last night, a friend of a friend hooked me up with the complete(?) recordings of all-female svenskt muskikgrupp Mögel. I am seriously digging these zigzag rhythms and delightfully atonal Swedish … Continue reading
Style Ish: Anita Lane
Anita Lane is my current style icon. Like all of Nick Cave’s dream women, she’s got the angsty sexpot thing down for sure. GOOD GOD, that messy hair: She also … Continue reading
Lit Bombast: Suburban Relapse
Oh, the information age. In which even those things which are meant to be impermanent, crude, DIY, and hyper-local, are now preserved for all and for eternity via digitization. If … Continue reading
Lit Bombast: We Got Power
[Sin 34] If you’re aren’t familiar with the early ’80s hardcore punk scene in California, then two things must happen now: 1. Punch yourself in the face for sucking. 2. … Continue reading
Film Bombast: Weatherman ’69
I recently had a chance to watch Raymond Pettibon‘s The Whole World is Watching: Weatherman ’69, and hell, it is everything I hoped it would be. Low-budget and DIY in … Continue reading
Noisegasm: Bush Tetras
Best news ever: Bush Tetras has a new (old) album out that was released TODAY! Happy is a “lost” Bush Tetras record that was stuck in label-limbo for 15+ years. … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Rene Ricard
Tonight (!) is the opening for Warholian art hero Rene Ricard’s “New Paintings and Not So New” at Highlight Gallery here in SF. I’m not sure why he has never … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Women Who Rock
Other than the fact that the title is shamelessly trite, I’m not sure what to make of the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ current exhibition, Women Who Rock: … Continue reading
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