Danzig (Band)

Rippers Sets Sail Again After Sandy

Vancouver Punks White Lung Have It All Figured Out

We Did Mushrooms at the Bronx Zoo With Andy Animal, Cannibal Tribesman

"The last interview I did on mushrooms, I said something about the Beatles, and then I'm like, 'Sorry, I can't do this.'" The day after his first show with his new band, Andy Animal's Cannibal Tribe, Andy Animal is driving me to the Bronx Zoo to eat mushrooms and commune with his non-human brethre ... More >>

Prong - The Star of Palm Beach @ Rocks Off Boat Cruise - 10/19/2012

Better Than: Watching Titanic while "I'm sailing away / Set an open course for the virgin seas..." (sung by South Park's Cartman, of course) runs through your head. Setting sail for a metal show on the not-so-open seas, concessions must be made. Booze du nuit: Seven (Seagram's) and Seven's (7-up), ... More >>

The Top Seven Broadsides Against The PMRC

The PMRC is one of those faint memories that music fans that grew up in the '80s try to brush away. The Parents Music Resource Center was launched in 1985 by a group of Washington power wives—the most visible face being the wife of then-senator Al Gore, Tipper—who saw rock and rap as, in ... More >>

Modernist Kicks: Swissted's Mike Joyce Discusses The Inspirations For 10 Of His Gig Poster Makeovers

​In 1978, the Sex Pistols would have hocked snot at the idea of being associated with prim layouts and orderly type. Sublime's signature colors were not purple, pink, red, and gray; The Replacements had no ties to concentric squares. Dr. Know and Gorilla Biscuits never put pinwheels anywhere i ... More >>

The 10 Best Cover Songs Of 2011

Tell your children not to walk Wye Oak's way. ​2011 was a year of looking back relentlessly, whether you were awash in Remember The '90s nostalgia or getting down at a New Kids On The Block show or watching Lady Gaga try to bring back the variety-hour era with her whacked-out Thanksgiving spec ... More >>

Live: Danzig Takes A Halloween Tour Through His Legacy

Benjamin Lozovsky​Danzig Legacy New York Hammerstein Ballroom Saturday, October 29 Better than: Bobbing for dismembered limbs in a tank of formaldehyde. On a dreary, slushy Halloween weekend mess, Glenn Danzig, the diabolical mesh-loving doom crooner and heavy metal pioneer, celebrated his ... More >>

Live: Sonic Youth Get Caught Between Bad Moon Rising and New York City

Sonic Youth w/Wild Flag, Kurt Vile Williamsburg Waterfront Friday, August 12 Better than: Listening to a playlist of the set on Spotify. Just before Sonic Youth played "Starfield Road," from 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, at Friday night's Williamsburg Waterfront gig, singer-guit ... More >>

Download: Natur's Blistering, Wriggling "Spider Baby"

​Congratulations to Brooklyn's Natur, who have signed a deal with legendary metal label Earache so recently that the blood is still wet on the contract. Natur have been kicking around in New York for a minute now, boasting a sound somewhere between NWOBHM wail, horror-rock spookage and a rotti ... More >>

The Mountain Goats Cover Jawbreaker, And Lo, It Is Wonderful

The AV Club's Undercover series has had quite a few sublime pairings since it started asking newer bands to take on older songs (you've seen the Danzig cover, right?); right at the top of the hitting-all-its-marks pile is its newest entry, in which the fiery, brainy Mountain Goats cover "Boxcar" by ... More >>

Week In Review: Their Eyes Were Watching You

​ The week that was in music: "Weird Al" Yankovic made Lady Gaga blink. Beyoncé overloaded everyone's eardrums. Fleetwood Mac is in rock critics' comfort zone.

Wye Oak Kills Danzig's "Mother"

The Baltimore duo Wye Oak is one of this writer's favorite new bands of the past few years, thanks to sterling songcraft and the smoky, gorgeous voice of vocalist/guitarist Jenn Wasner. So it shouldn't be too surprising that when they covered Danzig's "Mother" for the AV Club's "Undercover" series, ... More >>

Q&A: Sasha Grey on Auto-Tune, Her Band aTelecine, and Her Favorite Sexytime Music

Courtesy VICE BooksFrom Neu Sex Sasha Grey is one of the most famous porn stars of our generation, and perhaps the first to achieve true crossover success, with starring roles in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience and HBO's Entourage. You probably know her by name, face, and maybe even v ... More >>

Melissa Auf der Maur

Live: Smith Westerns Turn Glasslands Into Their Own Private Garage

Everybody wants to be a star on a Tuesday night. Pics by Rob, more below.​Smith Westerns/Ducktails/Bass Drum of Death Glasslands Tuesday, January 18 Better Than: Well, certainly staying at home sulking about missing another Prince show at Madison Square Garden. Every Smith Westerns lead-guit ... More >>

2010's Best Comics and Graphic Novels

An assassin for Christmas, or maybe some witchcraft and depraved subordia?

Danzig+Gorgeous Frankenstein

Tom Mylan on 'Miami Vice,' Rachael Ray, Guy Fieri, Sake, and his Bachelor Party

Tom Mylan​ Yesterday, The Meat Hook opened, and we ran an interview with butcher Tom Mylan about the meats he's selling there, the tribulations of being called a "rock star butcher," and why butchering isn't as cool as you think it is. Read on to check out the second half of the interview, i ... More >>

The Great Chuck Biscuits Death Hoax of Aught Nine

The three on the right: Henry Rollins, Greg Ginn, and Chuck Biscuits, elusive even in Black Flag. Photo by Dave Markey.​As harsh as 2009 has been for celebrity deaths, it's been an even harsher year for Internet-based fake celebrity deaths. As of June, the real-to-fake death ratio has approach ... More >>

Interview: Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny on God, Hardware, and His New Luminous Night

"Even Danzig believes in a higher force." Elisa Ambrogio​For the past ten years, Ben Chasny has been recording under the moniker Six Organs of Admittance. His first self-released recordings, put to tape in his birthplace in the California Redwoods, were homespun abstractions that paid equal h ... More >>

Another Robert Pollard Record?!?

Two more shambolic arena-indie opuses to throw on the pile

The War and the Novelist

Strange coffee but odder omissions in Gunter Grass's controversial memoir

New Year's Eve Event Guide

Behind the Bar

Talking with Tanya Dias, a Reif's Tavern bartender

Listings

We come from garageland and we rock with drink in hand

Only a Northern Song

Boy Toys

The Way the Cracker Crumbles