Month: January 2012

Top 19 Dead People for 2011

Features

Carl Gauze reviews 19 important people who died this year and just didn’t get the Ink they deserved. Spoiler alert: it was a bad year for Jacks.

John Prine

Music Reviews

The Singing Mailman Delivers (Oh Boy Records). Review by James Mann.

MUTEMATH

Music Reviews

Odd Soul (Warner Brothers). Review by Laura Pontillo.

The Cure

Music Reviews

Bestival Live 2011 (PIAS America). Review by Scott Adams.

Rammstein

Music Reviews

Made In Germany 1995-2011 (Universal). Review by Carl F Gauze.

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Pigface

Pigface

Music Reviews

The Howler: An English Breakfast (Overdrive/Invisible Records). Review by Peter Lindblad.

Idiot Grins

Idiot Grins

Interviews

Ink 19 talks with Idiot Grins about the making of Golf Cart Life, their evolution from Oakland soul-rock lifers to one of indie music’s most unpredictable acts.

Deathslope Music Festival 2026

Deathslope Music Festival 2026

Event Reviews

Eight bands from Colorado and as far away as New Zealand knocked the socks off the West Slope music scene on the last day of this year’s Deathslope Music Festival in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder

Screen Reviews

John Badham’s 1983 future-tech helicopter thriller, Blue Thunder, with its cautionary tale of militarized police and a surveillance state, still resonates decades later.

The Eye

The Eye

Screen Reviews

What if the miracle of sight came with a curse? The Eye builds its horror from that chilling premise.

Chapterhouse

Chapterhouse

Interviews

With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.