It says a lot that at the screening I went to for the newly rereleased The Doom Generation (in the “weird city” of Austin, no less), it wasn’t a scene of intense violence or degradation or animal death that got the loudest gasp from the audience. That honor instead went to a brief but unbroken […]
Archives for 2023
More Than Horses: Celebrating the Manic, Anarchic Glee of The Unicorns 20 Years Later
That’s great it starts with a plane crash and The Unicorns are not afraid. Instead they are ready for the great rock and roll flame out– death in a plane crash, death in a car on tour, anything but death by sea or in the comfort of sleep(ing bags). “The prophecy is almost complete (cough), […]
With Great Power Comes Great Irresponsibility: Extraordinary is a Cheeky Twist on Superpower Stories
An infamous second generation Irish man once asked “ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” He was asking it to a hostile audience at the Winterland Ballroom in reference to the shenanigans that were causing the anarchic group he fronted to implode after a single album but it’s not too difficult to imagine that exact […]