Meet My Friend Venom: The Brazenness of Venom P. Stinger
Throughout the late eighties/early nineties, Melbourne’s underground music scene shined with immense talent and originality, none more so than Venom P. Stinger.
Record of the Day: Pink Fairies ‘I Wish I Was a Girl’
In the early 1970’s, London’s Pink Fairies shocked audiences with their incendiary, full-on assault, capturing the essence of rock n’ roll in its purest form.
Record of the Day: Iranian Rock w/ Jokers ‘Going Away’
Despite mainstream media’s portrayal of Iran as an apocalyptic wasteland, a burgeoning counterculture continues to rise, seeded by its 1970s underground psych rock scene.
Record of the Day: Boston’s Expando Brain ‘Thyroid’
Hailing from the Boston indie scene of the 1980’s, Expando Brain played in a disjointed style, reminiscent of a three-year-old throwing a tantrum on a supermarket floor.
Fonzie’s 69th Birthday: 11 Sleazy Tracks for Arnold’s Jukebox
You are cordially invited to help celebrate Henry Winkler’s 69th birthday with 11 sleazy songs, one for every season of Happy Days. Be there. Whoa!
The MC5: How the City of Detroit Spawned a Rock & Roll Revolution
The story of Detroit’s White Panther movement, the MC5, the F.B.I., and how John Lennon helped free leader John Sinclair is as pertinent now as it was in the late 1960s.
Moondog: Vikings, Dynamite, and the Distortion of Space and Time
The blind Viking from Kansas influenced Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, and Steve Reich, and his studio experiments blazed a trail for hip hop and punk.
From Adelaide to Seattle: The Roots and Evolution of Grunge
Amid the Seattle grunge explosion, the music industry reaped profits unseen since its 1970s heyday. Yet, little is spoken of its main influence, the Adelaide underground.
King Snake Roost: From Barbarism to Christian Manhood
Mutating from the drug-addled ashes of Grong Grong, Sydney’s King Snake Roost breached earholes with a perverse blend of acid-fried jazz, punk, and mind-altering barbarism.
Unpop Culture: Kim Salmon and the Surrealists
1991, and after a decade of experimental oneupmanship, Sydney’s Black Eye Records is in danger of swallowing itself whole. Enter Kim Salmon and the Surrealists.
Unpop Culture: Reverb Motherfuckers ‘Route 666’ Review
The vinyl bargain bin is more than a graveyard of kitsch whose fate was sealed the moment it appeared on a yacht rock compilation—it’s also where you’ll find reverb, motherfucker.
Feedtime: Treacle Rock Renegades to Seattle Grunge Heroes
Certain pundits are of the belief the slide guitar is a restrictive medium, limited as a mechanism of stereotype. Boy, are they mistaken.
Unpop Culture: Claw Hammer ‘Ramwhale’ Album Review
Under the thumb of glam, L.A. in the late 1980’s resembled a grand scale transvestite extravaganza. Enter Claw Hammer, loud, hairy balls stinking up the lipstick breeze.
Unpop Culture: Meet Bloodloss, the Band that Terrorised a Nation
Forming in 1981, Bloodloss squirted a placenta of afterbirth that led to the banning of their wild live shows in venues across Sydney. Read the sensational headlines here.
Hitting the Brown Note With No Wave Pioneers, Swans
With a reputation as bowel-antagonist extraordinaire, no wave pioneers, Swans, are perhaps the closest humanity has come to executing a successful brown note.
Unpop Culture: Captain Beefheart ‘Trout Mask Replica’
1969 proved a tumultuous year for pop culture; Charles Manson, murder, amphetamines, all of which inform the elements that make up the incredible ‘Trout Mask Replica’ album.
Raging Against Freedom On Behalf Of The Machine
In modernity, punk rock acts have taken it upon themselves to push the acceptance of global establishment mantra, an irony crueler than the very tyranny they’re promoting.
We Are DEVO! Gerald Casale Interview
Gerald Casale’s philosophies on human devolution are proving accurate. It now seems apt to hear from the DEVO co-founder, whose origin is steeped in tragedy.
Roadkill Radio #1: Devolution w/DEVO’s Gerald Casale
In this episode, I go deep with DEVO’s Gerald Casale on a whole swagger of subjects, plus spin a whole lotta discs. 3 hours of cussin’, noise n’ booklearnin. What else d’ya want?