At the beginning of every new year one cant help but examine the past and thats what were doing with this interview with Stacy Gueraseva, author of Def Jam, Inc: Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World's Most Influential Hip-Hop Label. Def Jam has long been a powerful...
On camera the Jackass cast and crew, always come off like psychotic eight year olds, which they are. But it also takes some talent to take this very motley crew, have them do all these insane and disgusting things to themselves and each other and still be able to formulate it all into a movie. Thats...
As Im sure many of you have figured out by now, I am a research nut. Whenever I find myself interested in a subject, I will do tons of research to learn more about the creator behind the work. In the days before the internet got so popular I used to spend hours at the library looking up information...
I should admit this right off the bat: Im not a huge fan of Travis Barkers music. The only work of his Ive really gravitated to is The Transplants; I'm still spinning that disc ever since I interviewed Skinhead Rob nearly...
The Panic Channel is the new band made up of former members of Jane's Addiction including Dave Navarro, Chris Chaney and Stephen Perkins. The new member is singer/guitarist Steve Isaacs. Theyve just released an album entitled One and I got...
There are striking simularities between the evolution of Suicidegirls and the career of underground rapper Sean Daley, better known as Slug from the Minneapolis hip-hop duo Atmosphere. Slug has been a supporter of SG for years, contributed his music to the Black Heart Retrospective and even name-drops...
An American Tattooist in Paris would have been a perfect title for this interview with artist Sunny Buick, but I just realized she was born in Canada. I'm watching Sunny tattoo a classic Americana work on a guy. She's wearing a kicky beret and speaking French,...
Mario Van Peebles has been on a major upswing in the past few years. His feature directorial debut, New Jack City, helped establish him and eventually many other black filmmakers in much of the same way his father, Melvin Van Peebles...
I cant help but be jokingly hostile with people like Joe Perry and Stewart Copeland. Theyre just so damn rich and so damn famous that my anger comes out in my sarcastic questions. I got to speak to The...
Since Death of a President premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this year, there has been a lot of criticism thrown at the film--much of it from people who havent even seen it. Many of those criticisms came from people who thought the film would be a cathartic wet dream for liberals, when in fact...