New blood is pulsing through Vains of Jenna as the Swedish sleaze-rockers return to America this weekend for the official unveiling of new music, a new lineup and a string of tour dates. With a five-song EP as a teaser, the Vains (yes, intentionally misspelled) are introducing new American singer Jesse Forte along with [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Yakking with … Nicki Kin from Vains of Jenna
Posted: 30th September 2010 by admin in Yakking with ...Tags: iggy, muse, nicki kin, nirvana, vains of jenna
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Pictured Life: The Toilet Boys
Posted: 29th September 2010 by admin in Every Picture Tells a StoryTags: miss guy, sean pierce, toilet boys
It’s tough to get noticed in a world of rock’n’roll loudmouths, but calling your band the Toilet Boys will surely arch some eyebrows. Firm believers that no publicity is bad publicity (the name says it all, right?), New York’s Toilet Boys were a sleazy blend of transvestite vampire bikers meets KISS and Blondie. Add a [...]
Pictured Life: The Exploited
Posted: 27th September 2010 by admin in Every Picture Tells a StoryTags: biohazard, cameo theater, exploited, the exploited, type o negative, wattie
This pic was taken in 1991 at the Cameo Theater in San Antonio during the same week that my lifelong buddy Al and I saw Infectious Grooves at the same venue. We always laugh about this week, because we were toast from all the late nights, gigs and various other ”shenanigans.” For some reason we were [...]
Pictured Life: Joan Jett Crushes 2Fast2Die
Posted: 22nd September 2010 by admin in Every Picture Tells a StoryTags: joan jett, stubb's
Put another dime in the jukebox, baby! I love rock-n-roll, but as a teenager I also had a huge crush on Joan Jett (although, now that I think about it, I also had a poster of Nancy Wilson in my school locker). Dressed in skintight leather and sporting some of the coolest hair ever, Joan [...]
Rewind: Slayer on ‘Blood,’ booze, Gipsy Kings
Posted: 21st September 2010 by admin in RewindTags: gipsy kings, god hates us all, pantera, reign in blood, slayer
With Slayer set to rain blood over Texas this Friday-Sunday as part of the American Carnage Tour, featuring Megadeth and Anthrax, I revisited a 2001 interview with Kerry King and Tom Araya that I conducted for Metal Edge magazine (RIP). At the time, Slayer was promoting the “God Hates Us All” album and was gearing up for [...]
Concert Review: KISS is still Hotter than Hell
Posted: 19th September 2010 by admin in UncategorizedIt was hotter than hell at the Woodlands Pavilion in Houston last Friday when KISS brought the blood, sweat and 35 years of rock to the sweltering, face-painted masses. For reasons that are painfully obvious, $10 beers did nothing to beat the heat. Playing in front of a Vegas-worthy kaleidoscope of flames, vintage video [...]
Yakking with … New Disaster’s Natchet Taylor
Posted: 16th September 2010 by admin in Yakking with ...Tags: guns n' roses, motorhead, natchet taylor, new disaster, stooges
I first met Natchet Taylor nearly 10 years ago at my favorite Austin dive bar, Headhunters, where his self-named, three-piece punk-n-roll band used to encore with Danzig and Rancid covers. Just as the Natchet Taylor band was gaining momentum on the strength of an electric live show and a hard-earned 2005 debut album called “Barely Legal,” [...]
Pictured Life: Udo Dirkschneider
Posted: 14th September 2010 by admin in Every Picture Tells a StoryTags: accept, saxon, udo dirkschneider
Ever wonder how Accept singer Udo Dirkschneider got that wonderfully wretched singing voice? As you can see from this 2000 photo taken outside his tour bus in Austin, Texas, the German belter has (or, at least, had) an appetite for Winston smokes. Onboard the bus during our interview, Udo displayed a copious thirst for whiskey (and generous [...]