It was Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden. I kept reminding myself that while I swore off major arena shows, somehow Scissor Sisters’ big comeback tour was hitched to Kesha’s wagon which meant I needed to be there. Doing the “Tits Out Tour” with Kesha makes sense for them. Kesha’s whole thing is being a… Read More Tits Out for Scissor Sisters
I’m a connoisseur of weird shit and sometimes I land on the most prurient, grotesque, offensive trash imaginable. It is for this reason that I am fortunate to land on a technicolor turd of a musical known as Highway of Heartache. This country drag circus is awash in layers of cowprint and filth so jarring… Read More Highway of Heartache – Absolute Trash Country Musical not for Faint of Heart
This year I am thankful for “Glass Heart” by Dark Chapel, the brand new band fronted by Black Label Society’s Dario Lorina. Thick and woozy, this track hits you with its grungy hypnosis through its lyrical metaphor of a glass heart. Think about it: solid, cracked and yellowed with age and through strife, but still… Read More “Glass Heart” by Dark Chapel, fronted by Black Label Society’s Dario Lorina
Composer Rettward von Doernberg’s latest release fingers the throbbing nerve in all our foreheads. Follow The Money drips with cold electronic intrigue over a thick driving bass, like Nine Inch Nails had a baby with the Stereo MCs. It’s got that something in the finish that sparkles in its darkness, like an episode of Mr.… Read More Audio/Visual Art: Follow The Money by Rettward von Doernberg
The algorithm sensed the spooky season was in town and trick-or-treated me to this caped rocker. Isaac Rother & the Phantoms hail from a decrepit mansion decorated with string-lights and framed posters of Frankenstein, delivering some proper kitschy rock-and-roll. This is that kind of Cramps-ish gnarly surf shit that flew to the future from the… Read More Fright and Delight with Isaac Rother & the Phantoms
It’s a work night. So what? I pull up to Brooklyn Bowl with a sprained ankle and an itch for dancing. I bought the ticket for London-by-way-of-Nigeria dance band Ibibio Sound Machine the minute it was announced, and no ankle pain was going to get in the way of the show now. Jobs and workers… Read More Ibibio Sound Machine, Lollise, and Underground System at Brooklyn Bowl, September 25th 2024
It was a sleepy Saturday night. Summer had jumped out of the pool and was shivering In a towel while Fall rolled the pool cover over the blue waves. Old friends rang me up. Khruangbin was playing the Stadium again, and their third dropped out. I thought about it for a bit. I had been… Read More Khruangbin and Men I Trust, Forest Hills Stadium, September 21, 2024
Welcome back. Miss Meow, yours trewly, has gone through some changes in career and life. I had to let the keyboard gather a little dust so I could try flinging paint instead of words. But mostly I spent the late nights putting my head back on straight after having it squorshed and skweeshed by common… Read More The Rise of M-S-G 2.0
Tonight I have officially signed over ownership to my MUSIC-SURVIVAL-GUIDE project to my dear and very longtime friend, Kat @a_kat_a_day – This has been a long time coming as she came on as “co” whatever probably 2 years ago. At it’s peak I had the gears really turning and had incredible luck interviewing artists that… Read More From MSG OG Soda:
It was an oddly quiet Sunday night at Gramercy Theater. I was there to see Voice of Baceprot, the Indonesian all-female metal band that has been storming the internet with covers of Rage Against the Machine and Metallica, among others. These young queens are touring the US, playing a mix of their own original tracks… Read More Sunday Night with Voice of Baceprot and Above Snakes
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