Month: September 2008

Posted on: September 30, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Project Zero, The Inheritance, Anything Girl, The Red Racer, The Goodlife, and Brookside @ Greencastle High – Aux Gym, November 6th, 2004

Each time a show happens at Greencastle High School, you are going to know that it will be one to remember. From how I was introduced to the Greencastle music scene (Ides of March) to Ides II late last school year, I just knew that Band-Aid 2004 would be beyond all expectations. It is also the only show I pay for in Greencastle, as practically all the other shows I…

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Posted on: September 30, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

True Story!

Another comic zine, this time chock-full of information where a mixed zine like Incredulous was not. The comic is personal, but really tends to go off on weird observations and tangents, similar to Al Burian’s work in that aspect. The style of the art is a mixture of Mike Judge’s, Brendan Small’s [Home Movies] and Futurama, which needless to say, reining in the art of caricature to the degree where…

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Posted on: September 30, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway (PS3)

Hell’s Highway is the third of the Brothers in Arms series, and it saw a release on the PS3, the Xbox 360 and the PC. This time out, the Playstation 3 version of Hell’s Highway will be reviewed. Regardless of the console through which the player enters into “Hell’s Highway”, the storyline is the same. Based off a real World War II offensive (Operation Market Garden, where the Allies attempted…

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Posted on: September 30, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 1

My Secret World (DS)

When the Nintendo DS first came out, it seemed like the number of different games were pitifully few, and the number of those games that broke free of the narrow genre confines of the early library were even fewer. Imagine (and Ubisoft generally) have been wondrous in actually expanding the palette of the DS, and making it into a console that is more attractive at this point than a PSP.…

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Posted on: September 29, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

DANGER MOUSE NAMED ONE OF ESQUIRE’S “MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF THE 21st CENTURY”

Artist and producer Danger Mouse appears among “the 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century” in this month’s issue of Esquire, celebrating the magazine’s 75th anniversary. Alongside artists, scientists, entrepreneurs and heads of state, Danger Mouse will be honored for his boundless creativity, his relentless work ethic, and his power to shape the cultural future.

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Posted on: September 29, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

The Lost, Pvrenchymv, Unstable, Silver in December, and The Heart Attacks @ Meherry Hall, October 30th, 2004

I try to have shows wherever I’m at, whether its in Lancaster or in my college town (Greencastle, Indiana). Both places have great scenese, and at the beginning of this year, I tried to have a twenty-first birthday party show (September 16th; my birthday is the 15th). Just like the time that my artwork (in the form of a door that proclaimed fuck gender roles) was yanked so as to…

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Posted on: September 29, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 1

Introducing Josh X-an-tus

Like a shooting star, Josh X-an-tus has gone from obscurity as a multi-talented Julliard trained musician, to heating up the blogosphere with his first recorded single “Let’s Ride” featuring Roc-A-Fella MC Jadakiss. With a song and video premiering online just a week ago, the track has already appeared on Kanye West’s blog with a re-mix created (out of the blue) by Consequence. “Let’s Ride” is attracting a myriad of listeners,…

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Posted on: September 29, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Persian Poets, Environmental Devastation, and Electronic Music: Green Memories is an Ambient Voice of the Earth

Almost a century ago, after a thousand years of Persian poetry, there was a major shift. It paralleled a seemingly global movement in which older artistic languages were transformed. In the West, this transformation can be seen in art (Kandinsky), music (Schoenberg), and literature (James Joyce). It happened in other parts for the world. In Persian poetry, maybe it was a cultural mutation, a literary development, or a seemingly abrupt…

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Posted on: September 29, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

VISION OF DISORDER’S “DEAD IN NEW YORK” DVD SET FOR NOV. 11 RELEASE ON KOCH RECORDS; NYC SHOW ON NOV. 16

Vision of Disorder, the Long Island-based hardcore band that merged traditional east coast hardcore alongside thrash metal before disbanding in 2002, is set to release “Dead In New York,” a posthumous DVD showcasing the band’s frenetic live shows as well as backstage footage. The band, which only recently reunited for a handful of shows, will play a hometown show at Irving Plaza on Nov. 16 to commemorate the release of…

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