Hank Moody eases his convertible sports car onto the long and twisting road that snakes through Hollywood Forever Cemetary, making his way past the ponds, tombs and exotic birds that roam the grounds. A cigarette dangles from his lips and looks like he might have had one too many drinks the night...
Before dawn on Sunday May 18, 1980 a 23-year-old Ian Curtis was found dead in his kitchen, having hung himself with a clothesline. His death signaled the end of Joy Division, the post-punk pioneers who later reformed as New Order, and in a way, signaled the end of a poetic innocence in the burgeoning...
Over the last five years Austin, TX has become the new Seattle. Bands such as And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead and Explosions In The Sky have paved the way for hundreds of other local acts trying to break through the obscurity. The Black Angels are well on their way to joining their...
Composer Bear McCreary is the composer of the best show on TV: Battlestar Galactica. In addition to his superb work on that program he somehow has found the time to compose excellent music for Eureka, the forthcoming Sarah Connor Chronicles,...
Michelle McNamara is a Los Angeles-based writer and founder of True Crime Diary. She explores the unsolved and forgotten murder cases that the media by and large ignores.[/I...
Its December 25th 1986, and Nikki Sixx is alone in his mansion, crouched naked under his Christmas tree with a needle in his arm, scribbling in his diary about watching his holiday spirit coagulate in a spoon. He writes, Merry Christmasits just you and me, diary. Welcome to my life....
GG Allin stands naked, facing a crowd of twitchy, New York University twentysomethings who wait nervously with bated breath for what the Murder Junkies frontman will do next. Its 1993 and Allin is about to begin his now-infamous spoken word performance that had him banned from stepping foot on campus...
Durb Morrison is an award winning tattoo artist and organizer of Hell City Tattoo Fest....
Erin Broadley: So Slayer just released a special edition of Christ Illusion, which is the first album you guys have put out with Dave Lombardo on drums since 1990. How is it to have the original lineup back together again?...
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo really impressed me with his debut feature film Intacto nearly five years ago. He also caught the attention of esteemed filmmaker, Danny Boyle, who had just finished his post-apocalyptic ode to the zombie genre, 28 Days...