The Jesus Lizard were too good to be ignored, but they'd never be ready for prime time. They were too weird, too ugly, too real. Read more
Author: Dustin Krcatovich
Dustin Krcatovich is a writer, musician, DJ, and insufferable contrarian based in Portland, Oregon. Reportedly, his writing once deeply offended a member of the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
It can be hard to imagine now, with lifetimes of video only a couple clicks away, just how revelatory watching something like a live punk… Read more
What would you say if I told you that there was a guitar player who is touted as a legend in Australia, but has steadily… Read more
When Chicago punk/metal promoter Jonny Boucher's mentor, fellow promoter Mike Scanland, died by suicide in 2010, it was a big wake-up call. Boucher immediately set… Read more
Though the term punk rock has been appropriated by any number of disparate subcultures over the years—often for outright contradictory purposes—the initial concept is generally… Read more
Monsters of Ink is a series where we talk to some of the visual artists and designers whose contributions ascribe the visual language of modern music.
This… Read more
Sometimes, YouTube is the greatest. Sure, it's easy to get lost in bottomless quagmires on that godforsaken website—hell, while doing research for this piece, I… Read more
I love Bill Murray as much as anyone—I'm a snob, yes, but I'm not a monster—but I think it's time we as a culture give… Read more
In 1999, cult favorite actor/musician/prankster polymath John Lurie—leader of the Lounge Lizards, early Jim Jarmusch muse, brilliant host of the absurdist celebrity travelogue Fishing with… Read more
Jeremy Wheeler has been a fixture in both the rock 'n' roll and pop art scenes in Southeast Michigan since moving to Ann Arbor around… Read more
When a group of college students in Kalamazoo, Michigan decided to get drunk and enjoy a Tom Hanks movie marathon on April Fool's Day 15… Read more
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there's a lot of talk in the news about psychometrics: those info clusters that, when combined, allow… Read more