It’s 1999. Justin Pearson, a member of a grindcore band called The Locust, decided to prank The Jerry Springer Show with a made-up story involving his three roommates. Beyond the fun of it and the opportunity to stay in a fancy hotel, there was also the chance to promote his […]
In the early ’70s, in a dark corner of a bowling alley in Detroit, Ernie Uszniewicz, who called himself “King,” was a really lame and out-of-tune rockabilly singer who dreamed of becoming the next Elvis Presley. He led a band called The Uszniewicztones, playing all their songs in the key […]
Here’s Tome’s Discord Intergalatic Planetary Server: https://discord.gg/BXzgjskz In 1978, a group of creative friends from the California Institute of the Arts came together in Long Beach to form a punk/new wave band that would later become a cult favorite: Suburban Lawns. At its forefront was vocalist Su Tissue, whose stage […]
Lu Edmonds may not be a name you immediately recognize, but his influence has likely touched your life in one way or another. Having lived in various countries during his youth and worked as a constructor, Lu arrived in London in 1977—just in time to help shape the birth of […]
Neill Kirby McMillan Jr., born in North Carolina in 1957, never wanted to be taken seriously as a musician, but he did want to be known as a rock ’n’ roller.
David Paden Passaro, aka Davey Havok, born in New York in 1975, has led the musical charge multiple times over the last few decades—first as an East Bay hardcore kingpin and later as a dark lord of the new wave of goth.
Larry, Maz, Trent, and Russell were upstanding fellows by day, but by night, they harbored a dark secret buried deep in the pharaonic tombs of San Francisco’s underground music scene in the late ’80s. Emerging from the depths in 1988, they transformed into California audiences’ worst nightmare: The Mummies.
It’s the late ’70s in California. Classic punk and hardcore were considered the black sheep of rock music. Among them, there was the black sheep of all black sheep: The Feederz, led by their infamous frontman, Frank Discussion.
Played in three of the most influential founding punk rock bands in the U.S., Redd Kross, Circle Jerks and Bad Religion, leaving two of them in a sudden rush and getting kicked out of the third after nearly 30 years. As discreet as he is wild, Greg Hetson is one […]
Ah yes, The Cows—Minneapolis’ finest sonic terrorists with a mountain of broken amplifiers. A band that made regular punk bands look like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. A magazine in the early ’90s claimed they could all play; they just didn’t know how to tune their instruments properly. At the center […]
