Glenn Danzig is no stranger to being an outcast. He’s been scaring the hell out of parents for three decades now and he has no intentions of stopping anytime soon. Satan’s favorite renaissance man is into much more than just music. Danzig is an accomplished...
Bumps is what happens when Tortoise members John McEntire, John Herndon and Dan Bitney ditch the dueling vibraphones and get down to the business of rhythm—beats—and, well…bumps. This is exactly the sort of record that these guys needed to make in...
I think I’m in love with Rocky Votolato. This is embarrassing, mostly because I’m not 14 and he’s not Pete Wentz, but it’s not really a hot-rock-star sort of crush anyway. It’s more like that scene in Wayne’s World where...
Since Ground Control has given me this space to rant/ramble about popular music on a regular basis, I should probably introduce myself and my musical taste. I’m calling myself The Aging Punk not because I plan to write about punk rock every month. Far from it....
All the hipsters’ wet dreams have finally come true. Not only is their beloved Rilo Kiley gearing up for the release of their fourth LP, Under The Blacklight (Warner Bros Records, August 21, 2007) but also, the band recently announced that they would be...
Still reaping in fans from the remix album Do You Trust Your Friends?, New York indie-rockers Stars announced plans to embark on a full fledged North American tour this fall. Stars will be supporting their much-hyped fourth album, In the Bedroom After the War,...
I never got to see Soundgarden. Or Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP, or the Smashing Pumpkins (thank God that last one will be fixed in due time). My musical consciousness took place at a time when Y-107 (remember that?) was getting off the airwaves, alien stickers were the...
I was shocked to find out that my favorite album ever, Radiohead's OK Computer, has now hit the double-digits in age since its original release. The album, which opened up a huge can of creativity-worms for me, still stands as a triumph of cohesive recording and...
For our 6th Lunarcast, we had a chance to meet up with L.A.’s own disco-lovin’ groovemeister Kennedy—yeah, the “Your Mama” guy. We first met up with him June 28 when he played the Warped Tour 2007 pre-party at the Glass House in Pomona,...
For our 6th Lunarcast, we had a chance to meet up with L.A.’s own disco-lovin’ groovemeister Kennedy—yeah, the “Your Mama” guy. We first met up with him June 28 when he played the Warped Tour 2007 pre-party at the Glass House in Pomona,...