“Music Inspired by the Motion Picture” is generally not a disclaimer to be trusted, but the original soundtrack to 'The Crow’ oozed style. Today marks… Read more
Author: Andrew Bonazelli
Andrew has written for Decibel and CLRVYNT and wishes Paul Verhoeven would contact him about his many ideas for Basic Instinct 3.
Mike “McBeardo” McPadden’s teensploitation anthology ‘Teen Movie Hell’ collects over 350 capsule reviews of the genre’s most titillating films released between ‘American Graffiti’ in 1973… Read more
The confluence of baseball with all kinds of heavy music—namely punk, hardcore and grindcore—has spawned outsider art that is deeply offbeat, thoughtfully woke and, more… Read more
Mish Barber-Way talks Penthouse's revelatory Stormy Daniels cover story, the crossover—or lack thereof—between White Lung fans and Penthouse readers, and exactly why “PUSSY IS GOD.” Read more
March 8, 1994 was the Midnight Madness to rule them all: the unveiling of both Nine Inch Nails’ ‘The Downward Spiral’ and Soundgarden’s ‘Superunknown’. Read more
Dookie came out 25 years ago this month. Yours truly was 17, and like most 17-year-olds without a Cool Older Bro to tell me what… Read more
Maybe it’s the downtown: a nondescript floral arrangement of condos and banks, culminating in the frat-friendly Gaslamp Quarter. Or perhaps because from its countless gorgeous… Read more
“I wanna kill myself, but I’ll go read a book instead.” This is the first thing vocalist/guitarist Skyler McKee says in the Super Whatevr song, “Telelelevision.”
It’s… Read more
“I’m always writing. I’m always playing. I’m always listening to music, thinking ‘What next?’” Read more
By day, Dane Erbach is an educator of curious minds, teaching high school English (specifically, creative writing and journalism) in suburban Chicago. By night, Erbach… Read more
With 10 half-hour episodes, the (outstanding) new YouTube Red series Cobra Kai does for 1984 film The Karate Kid what Ryan Coogler’s Creed did for the Rocky hexology: exhibiting affectionate… Read more
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration,” Stephen King once wrote. “The rest of us just get up and go to work.”
In that spirit, Riot Fest’s… Read more