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In the bleak, jagged dysfunction of our modern era it feels like things slip through the cracks of my mind almost immediately after experiencing them so here I am, attempting a running public journal for myself– a “live” journal, if you will. Maybe some of this will turn into longer form writing but I mainly […]
About Nick Hanover
About Nick Hanover
Nick Hanover got his degree from Disneyland, but he’s the last of the secret agents and he’s your man. Which is to say you can find his particular style of espionage here at Loser City as well as Ovrld, where he contributes music reviews and writes a column on undiscovered Austin bands. You can also flip through his archives at Comics Bulletin, which he is formerly the Co-Managing Editor of, and Spectrum Culture, where he contributed literally hundreds of pieces for a few years. Or if you feel particularly adventurous, you can always witness his odd .gif battles with Dylan Garsee on twitter: @Nick_Hanover
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Str8 to Hell: The Transgressive Legacy of The Doom Generation
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 […]
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 […]
Fossil Records: Gina X Performance’s Nice Mover
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Today, we look back at Gina X Performance’s innovative debut LP Nice Mover, a seminal work from a group that had a […]
Twitterpocalypse Now: Cormac McCarthy’s The Feed
Twitterpocalypse Now continues, with Kim O’Connor and Nick Hanover providing commentary on the collapse of Twitter in real time. You can read the first installment here at Loser City and for episode two, head over to Kim’s blog The Shallow Brigade. Nick Hanover: Well, Kim, it looks like the end has finally come. After playing chicken with […]
Git Out: Torn Hearts and the Horrors of the Music Business
In the pilot episode of Mike Judge’s sorely underrated music history series Tales from the Tour Bus, Judge explains he wanted to do the show because he found it funny that conservatives constantly bemoaned the violent, drug-fueled antics of gangster rappers when so many country legends were just as wild, if not worse. Any good student […]
Twitterpocalypse Now: The Lulz
Nick Hanover: Hello and welcome to the first installment of Twitterpocalypse Now, an ongoing correspondence between two people who have been embedded on the battleground that is Twitter for perhaps too long. It’s been a whirlwind month here on Twitter, beginning with Elon Musk asking bestselling novelists how much they’d be willing to pay for […]
A Million and One Places to Go: Revisiting the Art of the Hustle in Susan Siedelman’s Smithereens
Do you have a picture in your head of New York? Does it come from real life? Or the memory of art? I know the New York I see when I close my eyes. It is rooted in history but still basically myth, culled from photographic histories of the births of punk and hip hop, […]
Butt Muscles and Baby Squirts: On Christeene and Cultural Sensitivity
As a long time fan of her material, I got a thrill out of seeing a profile on Christeene, a self-described “human pissoir of raw unabashed sexuality,” in the Austin Chronicle this week. There’s no real comparison for Christeene or what she does but a rough description might go something like “if John Waters and […]
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