“Under pressure hammerhead in the shallow end; No surrender for the death guard watch; Pound of flesh, the water red but we still swim; Rub his belly and the bad fish stop;” — From SupaFeeler (Vice Grip) by Fitness For Max Collins and Kenny Carkeet of the band Fitness, music was a pathway out of disconnection and loneliness. “Going back …
“And it seems so real; In the moment, it’s all you feel; But it feels so strange In the long, long game.” “Long, Long Game” by Dana Fuchs Dana Fuchs has been described as a “blues and soul goddess,” a “true storyteller” and a singer who “roars like a lioness.” Her vocal style, which has been …
Frank Godla has dedicated his life to heavy-metal music. Not only is Godla the drummer for the heavy-metal band Meek is Murder, but he is also the co-founder of MetalInjection.net — one of the world’s premier heavy-metal music websites. And while Metal Injection started out as a heavy-metal video show that Godla and his friends …
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Many people know Mitch Lafon as the host of “One on One with Mitch Lafon,” a part of Talking Metal Digital. For years, Lafon has interviewed hard-rock and heavy-metal immortals such as Lemmy Kilmeister of Motorhead, Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots and Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. But there is something about Lafon that many …
“Now which hand’s got it? Bottom or the top? Neither hand’s got it It’s just got it Hope it don’t stop” From “Sun Zoom Spark” by Captain Beefheart Gary Lucas likes the dark stuff. “What I mean by dark is stuff that has been overlooked and obscured by the rollouts of all these mainstream cultural artifacts …
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Jerod McBrayer’s band, Worth Taking, has a new album, “Hangman,” with an interesting concept: Each song reflects a different “step” in 12-step recovery programs. This theme is a perfect fit for McBrayer and Worth Taking’s pop-punk style of music because it blends the “darkness” of his personal experience with mental illness and his friends’ experiences with addiction with …
Liz Miele is certainly getting people’s attention. Miele is not only a standup comedian who released her debut comedy album, “Emotionally Exhausting,” but she is also the writer and producer of the animated Web series “Damaged,” and has co-produced and co-starred in another Web series, “Apt C3.”And her comedy routine “Feminist Sex Positions” has been called “hilarious” and “genius” …
“I know a man without a purpose; He isolates himself and seeks his own desire; He argues with all wisdom; As he sits alone while staring at the fire” From “Man Without a Purpose” by R. Stevie Moore & Roger Ferguson No one has ever called R. Stevie Moore a man without purpose. He has been called “godfather …
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“What’s so sinister? We’re only trying to do what we think is right Conscience administered By the ones with the shortest sight” From “Year of the Rat” by Good Riddance Russ Rankin, perhaps best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Good Riddance, grew up on a ranch like his father before him. From …
DeAngela Napier is a visual thinker. Napier, who works as a photographer, video producer and editor, thinks of her work as visual storytelling, in which she conveys concepts and events through images as compared to words. She told me, “When anyone mentions anything, an image comes to mind. I’m one of those people who learns best by …
