Skinny Puppy – Handover
After a four year wait, Skinny Puppy return with an album that has a little something to satisfy every variety of fan and not only breaks new ground, but revisits some familiar ground from years past. Rating: Skinny Puppy – Handover SPV/Synthetic Symphony It has been quite some time since the last Skinny Puppy album. [...]
Wax Trax Retrospectacle day two
Saturday night was the second night of the Wax Trax Retrospectacle. With the first night being so good, expectations were high for the second night. The same people flooded into the Metro and parked themselves in almost the same spots as the first night. It was as if no one ever left from the night [...]
Wax Trax Retrospectacle day one
If it wasn’t for Wax Trax Records this site may never have existed. Wax Trax Records (the store) did more to shape the punk and new wave scene in the Chicago area than anything and Wax Trax Records (the label) did more to create the industrial music scene of the mid 1980′s to early 1990′s [...]
Wax Trax Retrospectacle
There was a time throughout most of the 1980s and partially into the 1990s that Wax Trax Records in Chicago was arguably the greatest record store on Earth if you were into punk rock, industrial, new wave or any sort of alternative music. I used to save up money for weeks to spend at the [...]
Legendary Pink Dots – Seconds Late for the Brighton Line
A return to form for this band as they celebrate their third decade as a band and their best album in 15 years. Worth giving them a second chance if you grew tired of the last decade’s worth of output. Rating: Legendary Pink Dots – Seconds Late for the Brighton Line ROIR The Legendary Pink [...]
16 Volt and Chemlab 5/9 at Darkroom
The Darkroom played host to the return of some long time Industrial Rock bands in the form of 16 Volt and Chemlab as part of the Midi Ghetto Tour. Both of these bands have been around for a long time now, dating back to when industrial music was making a big splash in the early [...]
Skinny Puppy 11/9 at House of Blues
Monday night was the most exciting night of the year in music for me, the return of my favorite band in the entire world, Skinny Puppy! It had been over two years since they last played here. This time they are on the In Solvent See tour which unfortunately is not in support of a [...]
Metal Machine Music – Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising
Metal Machine Music: Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising – DVD Sexy Intellectual/MVD Visual My love for industrial music in the late 1980s/early 1990s led me to discover Nine Inch Nails when they released their first single. A few years later NIN played at Lollapalooza and exploded, thus becoming a household name and one [...]
Pigface – Free For All
Pigface – Free For All DVD MVD Visual The idea of watching a documentary about a Pigface tour was weird for me because for a short spell I actually worked for Pigface/Invisible records during a time they were preparing for their Fook Tour. This was back in something like 1992 if I recall correctly. What [...]
Ohgr 11/30 at Double Door
Sunday night Ohgr returned to Chicago after a seven year absence from touring to play a show at the Double Door. I was quite surprised he wasn’t playing at Metro again based on the popularity of Skinny Puppy and the fact that the Double Door is so small. I knew shooting the show was going [...]
Ohgr – Devils In My Details
Ohgr – Devils In My Details CD SPV Records Skinny Puppy has been my favorite band on Earth for the past 20 years. I can’t get enough of them and to me there will never be a better band ever in my lifetime. On top of being in the greatest band to walk the globe, [...]
