–Give me, the one thing you can’t give / take me to the black lodge where you live -Anthrax Eli Roth’s Hemlock Grove—adapted from Brian McGreevy’s debut novel of the same name—is one more attempt to wring some psychosocial relevance out of the vampire-werewolf mythos (I’d say ‘one final attempt,’ but I lack the optimism). […]
…Or, why you need to know who Graham Tugwell is. I first learned about Graham Tugwell when I was putting together Anobium’s first volume (now sold out, suckers). All I knew at that point was that Tugwell was Irish and that the one story he sent me was so perfectly macabre that the most I […]
Since hearing Pissed Jeans’ first EP early in 2005, I had seen photos and videos of their performances. Aside from the music being some of the moist poignant confrontation within punk and hardcore in the 2000’s, something about Matt Korvette’s stage presence had its own gravitas. As a performer, Korvette’s delivery warbles violently between Calvin […]
1. City Water Light & Power is the first novel by writer Matt Pine. Peripherally, it’s a coming-of-age novel, and, yes, ‘coming-of-age novel,’ in most cases, can bring to mind the image of an hours-long navel gaze. City Water Light & Power is not that. It’s sympathetic without being pandering. It’s nostalgic without being contrived. It’s attractive in a […]
1. Ian F. Svenonius’s Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘N’ Roll Group (Akashic Books, 2012) has an excellent and clever concept, and it plays off the (now antiquated) idea that rock ‘n’ roll is the Devil’s music. For sake of that, the book might be about thirty years too late. Now, the Devil is […]
