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Str8 to Hell: The Transgressive Legacy of The Doom Generation

June 30, 2023 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: gay cinema, Gregg Araki, James Duval, Johnathon Schaech, New Queer Cinema, Parker Posey, queer film, Rose McGowan, The Doom Generation

More Than Horses: Celebrating the Manic, Anarchic Glee of The Unicorns 20 Years Later

April 6, 2023 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

The Unicorns performing live

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), […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Indie, Nick Diamonds, The Unicorns, twee

With Great Power Comes Great Irresponsibility: Extraordinary is a Cheeky Twist on Superpower Stories

February 3, 2023 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

The cast of the tv show Extraordinary

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Bilal Hasna, Emma Moran, Extraordinary, Hulu, Máiréad Tyers, Sofia Oxenham

Fossil Records: Gina X Performance’s Nice Mover

December 12, 2022 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Gina X

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 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: electronic music, Fossil Records, Gina Kikoine, Gina X Performance, post-punk, Quentin Crisp, synth pop, Zeus B Held

Twitterpocalypse Now: Cormac McCarthy’s The Feed

November 20, 2022 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Features, News Tagged With: Elon Musk, Silicon Valley, social media, tech, Trump, Twitter

Git Out: Torn Hearts and the Horrors of the Music Business

November 18, 2022 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: country music, Film, horror, music business, nashville, torn hearts

Twitterpocalypse Now: The Lulz

November 12, 2022 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

A screenshot from the Simpsons of Ralph saying "I'm in danger" where Ralph has been replaced by the Twitter logo

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 […]

Filed Under: Features, News Tagged With: Elon Musk, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Metaverse, Twitter

Let’s Do the Panic Again: Phantom Planet Returns

July 3, 2019 By Nicholas Slayton Leave a Comment

It’s been seven years since Phantom Planet played a “proper show” in Los Angeles. But at the Lodge Room on Friday, May 10 (after a last-minute shift from Downtown’s Resident), it seemed like the band and Angelenos hadn’t missed a beat. The show, the second of a trio of Southern California reunion shows, drew a […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Alex Greenwald, Lodge Room, Los Angeles, Phantom Planet, Ryan XX

Learning to Appreciate Life in Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die

July 1, 2019 By Nicholas Slayton Leave a Comment

Dead Don't Die Chloe Sevigny Adam Driver Bill Murray

The Dead Don’t Die is certainly a Jim Jarmusch film. In his career, he’s brought his own idiosyncratic approach to quiet dramas, mafia films and Westerns. It never quite approaches parody or deconstruction; Jarmusch is interested in and a fan of the tropes of genres, and he sees how they can be used to examine […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny, Dead Don't Die, Jim Jarmusch, RZA, Selena Gomez, Steve Buscemi, Tilda Swinton

10 Underrated Albums from 2018

January 2, 2019 By Chris Jones Leave a Comment

Underrated Albums 2018

2018 was stuffed with phenomenal work and now Chris Jones is here to add even more to your plate with a rundown of 10 overlooked gems from the year. Big Ups Two Parts Together Like far too many other bands, Big Ups split apart right as they seemed to be hitting their stride. While they still […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Amber London, Bad Gyal, Big Ups, Bruce Brubaker, Esperanza Spalding, Hooded Menace, Laurel Halo, Vessel, Westside Gunn, Zoe Keating

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