An Open FUCK YOU to American Apparel

I never felt great about supporting you American Apparel. Let’s face it, you’ve had a storied history with a creepy founder who sexually harassed  women employees and trouble with allowing unionization in your so-called textile worker friendly business. But, I’m not going to lie. I loved your clothes. They were soft, and cut nice and had great colors. [...]

The Problem with Being A Fan

I’m supposed to be reading The Secret Agent by Sir Robert Conrad. This book is about a supposed anarchist-cum-terrorist who botches his targeted explosion because he gives his bomb to his autistic brother-in-law who kills himself, possibly to save others, a theme I have yet to read about anywhere else. And I know you’re thinking this [...]

Fordists – Watch You

The Fordists Watch You Amor Y Lucha Washington DC is a city of spooks. Around every god damn corner you will find some twisted looking bastard, with tightly pursed lips and a terror in their eyes and you know that idiotic motherfucker works for one of the eight billion fucking “intelligence” agencies that our ever [...]

Identity Crisis: (not so?) Briefly On Kreayshawn

Erik, no one cares about Kreayshawn anymore. She blew up like two months ago and you are just getting around to talking about her and we’re already on to the next thing that you have not been paying attention to. So, why for the love of god, you fat, old man, with your Raw Nerve [...]

Lungfish – Unanimous Hour Reissue

Lungfish Unanimous Hour Dischord Records If it comes as any surprise to you at this point, that I am now, and have always been a Lungfish worshiper, then clearly you are not one of those people who has followed me from blog to blog as I spread the gospel anytime said band, or any of [...]

Death Grips – Ex Military Mix Tape

I told Denman, the high priest of Error Vizion, I was gonna write another long tome on Blue Crush 2 this week. But here’s the thing, for someone unemployed, I have a lot going on. I am failing at designing t-shirts and screening them (Hi Mike Dwyer! I haven’t forgotten about you), I’m playing a [...]

Fucked Up – David Comes to Life

Fucked Up David Comes to Life Matador Records Dear Fucked Up, I’m having a bit of an internal issue, and I am sorry to say that my brain is going to vomit out some nonsense in response to your album, David Comes to Life and some of your aesthetic and production decisions and a bunch of other stuff [...]

Gaga Loves Madonna: Sex Positive Women In Pop Music (and the music dorks that love them)

I’ve had a hard time in life. Since college, where I dabbled in the ideas that were so unimportant to the world, I’ve been inflicted with this obsessive-compulsive habit of needing to tear apart everything. This is what college teaches you to do, find the things you love, obsess over them and then attempt to dissect every possible [...]

Rations – For Victory

Rations For Victory 86′d Records and Fanzine A few weeks ago I wrote a short, fast diddy about this band Rations, from Long Island, New York. I expressed in that short piece my surprise that Long Island had a burgeoning, DIY, punk rock scene. Part of the reason for that is that every time I went to Long Island [...]

In Brooklyn, Nothing is Sacred, Not Even the Sacrilegious

When I was in high school, there used to be this kid named Dan. Dan was the focus of much undeserved frustration from me and my friends. First of all, he was home schooled, so instantly myself and all my friends were jealous that he didn’t have to wake up early and go to an [...]