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Ima Robot is an excellent band whose music mixes a variety of genres. You can call them rock, you can even call them rap, but you must buy their new album, Monument to the Masses. I recently had a chance to speak with the band's very prolific vocalist, Alex Ebert.

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Paul Booth is one of the--if not the-- best known and appreciated tattoo artists in the world. In fact, his popularity is cultish. The man's got minions. He created a style of macabre black-and-gray tattooing, rich and textured, that is definitively...

I prefer not to simultaneously interview two people who work together. Usually the duo will feed off one anothers energy, often resulting in an amusing but not very informative interview. That nearly happened with Vernon Chatman and John Lee, creators/writers/directors/producers of one of my favorite...

I think much of this website is based on things people might be too embarrassed to talk about with their partners. That is one of the things that makes Bobcat Goldthwaits new movie, Sleeping Dogs Lie, so emotional and real. It is a story of a young newly engaged schoolteacher [played by Melinda Page...

In the ranks of great DJs worldwide we must acknowledge those brilliant artists who dont speak any English. Any list of seminal DJs must include DJ Krush. Krush started his career in the 1980s and by the early 90s he was already heralded as one of the greats. His most recent project is Stepping Stones...

Dont worry The Ten co-writer and co-star Ken Marino isnt all bashed up because of me. I got to visit the set of his new movie The Ten, directed by David Wain, while they were shooting a scene where Marino gets anal raped and beaten by his cellmate...

Roy Frumkes is a teacher of film at the School of Visual Arts, but his side job is making some of the coolest cult films of all time. His most famous creation is the classic Street Trash, which caused a flurry of homeless penises to be thrown into the air when it was released in the 80s. Street Trash...

Tattoo artist Colin Dale is a tall, strapping man who looks like he comes from Viking stock, which is actually quite fitting considering his passion is recreating ancient Nordic art on skin (and plundering villages). With a penchant for studying...

There are thousands of hip-hop fans out there who want to know how Ice-T is going to bring himself back to the kind of success and popularity he enjoyed in the late 80s and early 90s. Well, all your memories of Law & Order and Leprechaun in the Hood will fade away once you hear the new Body Count...

We dont do much New York City theatre coverage on SuicideGirls but an exception must be made for the daring brilliance of Neil LaBute. Wrecks, written and directed by LaBute, is currently up at the world famous Public Theater in Manhattan. Wrecks is a one man show which stars Ed Harris and had a...