Letter of Resignation #2 / Forth-Sized / 28 Pages / Kyle Folson, 301 Colonial Dr. #9, Ipswich, MA 01938 / crushkyledestroy@hotmail.com / This zine is the sometimes confusing diatribe about two people crossing the United States, starting from Massachusetts, going to New Mexico, California, and the like, and the experiences that they’ve had. The intensely personal beginning of the zine, discussing the desire to help the DIY ethos, moves seamlessly…
David Charles Kramer, better known as DJ Devious, is a guitarist, singer, and turntablist. Kramer attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and received BMs in Songwriting and Music Synthesis. Kramer has performed in many venues, including the Fillmore and the Shoreline Amphitheater. In 2000, DJ Devious appeared on the Cyberfest 2000 compilation along with DJ Dan, Moby, Mix Master Mike, BT, Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyke, Carl…
Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice (PSP) / 2008 Sony / http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP/Games/Pursuit_Force_Extreme_Justice / Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice is (as individuals may be able to guess) the sequel to Pursuit Force. It is currently only available on the PSP, but there are plans to port it over to the PS2 for the summer. For individuals that have not played the game in the past, the main character is a Cop Commander, which has…
July 2000, $3. There are tons of pages to this rag. What is really excellent is that this magazine has top tens for everything they do- I love top ten lists! Most of the bands I’ve never heard of are on these lists, which is always a good thing. After the beginning few pages of typical stuff, 6 pages of uninterrupted ads follow, with 5 pages of letters following that!…
Nashville based rootsy rock band The Coal Men are heading into the studio this month to work on their third album, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2007 release, Beauty Is a Moment. The band will then set off on tour throughout the Southeast, Northeast and Midwest. There can be no doubt that Jimmie’s Chicken Shack is one of the hardest working bands in the business, having been on the…
Touring With Frequent Roadmates The Bravery Through April 25 U.S. Debut Album A Town and Two Cities Hits iTunes/In-Stores on April 29 (New York, NY) New Universal Republic band Your Vegas has loaded up their cart with spring Goodies, including a much touted opening spot on this spring’s hottest road workout, Duran Duran’s Red Carpet Massacre North American Tour, which runs through the end of May on a 22 city…
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (DS) / 2008 Square-Enix / http://na.square-enix.com/ffccrof/ / I love that Square has cut down considerably the time that passed between the Japanese release of a Final Fantasy game and the English-language versions of the game. Where it may have been years between the release dates of the two versions, it is now only about 3 or 4 months. Another thing that is great…
   ‘J2,’ the collaboration between singer/songwriter/performer JARBOE and Jesu frontman   JUSTIN K BROADRICK, has reached the #5 spot on Billboard’s New Age album chart. Jarboe/Justin K. Broadrick – J2 #5 (New Age Charts)  Â
Left of the Dial #6 / Summer 2003 / Full Sized / 84 Pages / $3.95 / 1438 W. Alabama #4, Houston, TX 77006 / Interview after interview. The people at Left of the Dial really can’t get enough of them, even if I can. My first read through, I stopped at the Editor’s Intro, got into three interviews (Andrew W.K., Avail, and The Bellrays), and had to try almost…
Save The Cookie – symbiosis of slovak singer Cookie Baar, producer Martin Hudak, musician Igor Baar and american producer Matt Patrick. Everybody brought something from his own. Characteristic feature for production of this album was some kind of freedom, that has been given to everybody. Some songs were made three years ago, some of them in the last while. Sound postproduction was in progress from august 2007 to january 2008.…
Rev Theory – Hell Yeah / 2008 Interscope / 1 Track / http://www.revtheory.com / http://www.interscope.com / Rev Theory is the band that had the Wrestlemania XXIV theme song, and “Hell Yeah†is the second official single for their second major label album “Light It Upâ€. The act plays hard rock that has equal parts Guns N Roses and Bad Religion. The vocals have the same grit of a Mike Ness,…
As the commercial says, there are a lot of individuals that do not ever look at their credit reports and scores. To not do so is to invite disaster with one’s credit, the ramifications of which could conceivably exist in individual’s future for decades to come.
 Canadian experimental/noise duo NADJA‘s latest album Skin Turns to Glass   is in stores today via THE END RECORDS.Â
Mauled! True Tales of Tragedy At Sea #3 / $4.50 / :15 / 64M / http://www.manualcomics.com / brian@manualcomics.com / This is a compilation zine that has a bevy of comics, as one can probably guess, about tragedies at sea. A number of them feel as if the artists just went and grabbed something for the AP newswire and then just put pen to paper – specifically “One More Reason to…
Hollywood has always worn a mask of illusion, and never has that been so literal as in The Real Deal – an upcoming series of shorts coming from REAL U Films, created in cooperation with REAL U Masks, the world’s leading manufacturer of realistic Silicone Special Effects Masks – used in films, haunted houses, and sought out by enthusiasts from around the Globe. The reclusive manufacturer will make a big…
Metropolis:Rebirth 1.0 is out now in Hot Topic stores and online. This highly anticipated budget compilation is a 2-disc set with the first disc featuring many of Metropolis’ best Electronic and Industrial artists, while the second disc contains Metropolis’ many excellent rock bands. This unbelievable compilation features some of the most prominent bands in the industrial and rock scenes including VNV Nation, Electric Six, Combichrist, KMFDM, Grendel, and The Birthday…
Leapfrog Bike Zine #7 / $1 / Half-Sized / 32 Pages / Leapfrog Bike Zine, 6163 Carrollton Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220 / xpeoplespoetx@hotmail.com /Â As with the previous issue of the magazine, I can honestly say that Leapfrog can make a topic that I had little information or desire to know more about into something that I just have to study more! This time around, Scott interviews the bikearchists R.A.M.B.O.,…
With a menagerie of acknowledgements from the likes of Weekender Magazine, Electric City/Diamond City Magazine, GarageBand.com, and XND Radio, OurAfter has stolen the hearts of moody rock lovers from Tampa to Chicago. Their single, “Karma” was hand-picked for the soundtrack of the independent film, Bloodlines, coming out this summer through THINKFilm, and now the buzz has built to the point that they find themselves on a summer tour bringing their…
Logs In The Mainstream – The Ridiculous & The Sublime / 2008 LogsMOLE / 12 Tracks / http://www.logsinthemainstream. com / Logs In The Mainstream start out their “The Ridiculous & The Sublime†with “Gotta Get Upâ€, a track that vacillates between sounding as if it came out in the sixties or the nineties. The amount of influences that come forth during the 12 tracks on “The Ridiculous†are legion; hints…
Matter #2 / $1 / Half Sized / 56 Pages / Matterzine@yahoo.com / Matter, 1415 NE 87th Ave , Kansas City , MO 64155 Okay, so this zine is does by a kid who I believe to be in High School. This zine is just pretty much a mishmash of whatever ey could find and well, the zine stumbles through its 56 pages without completely becoming tedious. Some of the…