Month: August 2015

Worriers

Music Reviews

Imaginary Life (Don Giovanni). Review by Jen Cray.

Jobriath A.D.

Jobriath A.D.

Screen Reviews

This early Glam rocker was written off after he came out before anyone else then anguished in obscurity until his death from AIDS in 1982. Here’s his pitch for a Broadway musical.

Veruca Salt

Event Reviews

Veruca Salt resoundingly showed they’re no passing ghost note by moving on from a turbulent past with an emphatically great performance at Webster Hall that wowed May Terry.

Contamination

Contamination

Screen Reviews

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Howard Jones

Howard Jones

Event Reviews

Howard Jones- The Songs, the Piano and the Stories. Michelle Wilson catches Hojo and comes away impressed!

The Fest 14

Features

Gainesville, Florida’s annual punk rock makeover, THE FEST, returns for its 14th year.

Howard Jones

Event Reviews
Howard Jones- The Songs, the Piano and the Stories. Michelle Wilson catches Hojo and comes away impressed!

The Fest 14

Features
Gainesville, Florida's annual punk rock makeover, THE FEST, returns for its 14th year.

Face to Face

Event Reviews

Face to Face performs Big Choice live at The Social. You know Jen Cray was there!

The Muffs

The Muffs

Music Reviews

The Muffs (Omnivore Recordings). Review by Laura Pontillo.

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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.