Racket Laura’s Holiday Gift Guide for Cool Kids and Classy Gents
The holidays are hard upon us and the final stretch mad-dash to shower those dear and socially necessary...
Tips for surviving Hell, or as I like to call it, The Holidays
Okay, so you’ve stocked the fridge with your favorite egg-nog/Kalua/wine/beer/depressant of choice, and bought presents for your parents,...
The Dear Hunter’s Casey Crescenzo – Interview
Not too many white dudes like fried squid because it’s too “weird”, “ethnic”, and it smells funny [Emperor’s...
The Bomb – Speed Is Everything – CD Review
THE BOMB SPEED IS EVERYTHING No Idea Records 7/10 I have to be in the mood for a...
GWARGWARGWARGWARGWAR! – The Glasshouse – Show Review
GWAR With uhhhh…some other bands who weren’t GWAR! (Job For a Cowboy, The Red Chord) The Glasshouse, Pomona,...
Where do they go from here?
As our series on hipsters comes to the end, we look at the history of the subculture- it’s...
The Kobanes – Japan Invasion – CD Review
The Kobanes Japan Invasion Fixing a Hole/Dumb! Records 6/10 More legitimate pop punk, but lacking the expertise of...
Fantastic Mr. Fox – Movie Review
Fantastic Mr. Fox Twentieth Century Fox 10 of 10 As a kid I read a lot. Specifically, I...
Ten Popular Holiday Songs
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and not to mention the most musical. Think about all...
Kingdom Of The Spiders – DVD Review
Kingdom Of The Spiders Shout Factory 8/10 B-Movies alone are hard to seriously judge, but when the main...
Teenage Bottlerocket – They Came From The Shadows – CD Review
Teenage Bottlerocket They Came from the Shadows Fat Wreck Chords 8/10 Ah, now this is pop punk. The...
Dethklok – Hollywood Palladium – Show Review
Dethklok w/Mastodon, Converge, High on Fire November 19, 2009 Hollywood Palladium Hollywood, CA The best part about mosh...
Rooney – The Glasshouse – Show Review
Rooney W/ The Crash Kings and Tally Hall The Glasshouse, Pomona, CA I have seen Rooney maybe eight...
Fighting The Villain – First Impression – CD Review
Fighting the Villain First Impression PopSmear Records 2/10 Terrible, cookie-cutter, MTV punk-pop (unlike mass media who co-opted the...
Fefe Dobson – Interview
While Canadian singer Fefe Dobson dressed up as a dead Amy Winehouse for Halloween this year, it was...
Bad Lieutenant – Movie Review
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Edward R. Pressman Film/Nu Image Entertainment 1/10 Bad being in the...