Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year, which just feels wrong. But you know what is just so right — your Video Clip of the Week: Special Halloween Edition! You’ll never believe what I found for you, because this clip for “1980’s Horror Film” from Southern California-based rock trio Wallows is just too perfect!
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Video Clip of The Week: The Cutthroat Brothers, “Kill 4 U”
We’ve only got one more full weekend before Halloween hits, so I think it’s high time to rev-up all you music maniacs with some appropriately menacing tunes! Let’s get dangerous! This week’s clip comes to us from Tacoma-based garage punk duo The Cutthroat Brothers, who are referred to as the Sweeney Todd of Punk for good reason: they have real life day gigs as Barbers! You’ll see the pair in action in this visually engaging clip, as they rock out in blood-soaked smocks right in their shop! This ain’t your average love song.
Guitarist /Vocalists Jason Cutthroat and Drummer Donny Paycheck (of Garage Punk legends Zeke) formed the band in February of this year and by March they had already recorded their debut album with long time Paycheck/ Zeke collaborator, and producer legend Jack Endino (Nirvana, Mudhoney, The Sonics, Soundgarden). Endino’s Midas Touch finely hones the band’s buzzsaw guitar attack and four-on-the-floor rhythms into a classic rock rumble that just refuses to date. “Kill 4 U” will save your rock and roll soul with its reckless riffing and a hard-hitting hooks sharp enough to draw blood. Happy Halloween, bitches! The Cutthroat Brothers‘ self-titled, 8-song debut is available now on CD and as a digital download via Digital Warfare Records. Enjoy!
Matt Johnson’s The The Reemerge With Comeback Tour and New Documentary!
The The Onstage at NYC’s Beacon Theater (All Photos By Gail)
Nostalgia doesn’t have to look a certain way. My first memory of nostalgia as a movement, or social phenomena, is from the 1980s, when the States experienced a massive wave of sentimentality for the pop culture of the 1950s. Suddenly, modern trends were pushed aside as the populace indulged a compulsion to revisit and appropriate the music, fashion and lifestyle of that era. It seemed like a big deal at the time, but as I get older I understand that the experience of nostalgia need not take place on such a grand scale. It can be drilled-down to keenly personal moments: a favorite scent, a photograph, or even a song can carry with it the power of full transportation to the past.
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Video Clip of The Week: Monster Magnet, “When the Hammer Comes Down”
If there is one band that can always be relied on to deliver the goods when you just want to Rock Out, that band is Monster Magnet. This week’s featured clip is a performance-based lyric video for the group’s current single, “When the Hammer Comes Down,” and it does not disappoint in its delivery of the relentless heavy metal Sturm und Drang that defines iconic front man Dave Wyndorf and his head-banging bandmates.
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Beavis And Butthead Homage: The Great Cornholi-Os Breakfast Cereal T Shirt!
MTV’s subversively groundbreaking animated sitcom, Beavis and Butt-Head, has been off the air for two decades at this point, though it has enjoyed a lively pop cultural resurgence in the past few years due to Trump’s useless male progeny bearing an uncanny resemblance to the idiotic duo. The important difference being that Beavis and Butt-Head are at least somewhat loveable.
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