The visual guide to Metallica’s 80’s singles. The “internet metal community” absolutely hated it, but you can read it here.
Cause of Death Turns 25 (and it’s still the best Obituary record) Featured
Cause of Death turned 25 in 2015. It’s now old enough to rent a car. Read my take on America’s Southern Fried Celtic Frost, and how this apocalyptic motherfucker is their actual best album. Original piece here.
In Defense of Live Rock Overdubs (Invisible Oranges)
I’m wont to believe this kind of manipulation, when done with pure intent, helps further a grand, beautiful idea, like Hulk Hogan and the Iron Sheik, at historic Madison Square Garden, Jan 23, 1984. Without some scripting and engineering, they’d have just been two old dudes fake fighting each other. Original Piece here.
Frank Underwood’s Monument Valley (Huffington Post)
Kids play ’em, adults play ’em, fictional presidents play ’em. I wrote about Frank Underwood’s (Kevin Spacey) fixation on the indie mobile smash Monument Valley for Huffington Post.
The Asylum Door Opens: Ringworm Returns (SLUG Magazine)
Interview with Ringworm‘s James “The Human Furnace” Bulloch, originally appeared in SLUG Magazine. Web version and full piece here.
All Marks Ringside: Pro Wrasslin’ in the Valley Featured
Read it here and download as .PDF here.
Salty Boiz: How I learned to love skateboarding in SLC (SLUG Magazine)
Illustration: Phil Cannon
Moving to Salt Lake City was a culture shock in more ways than one. I could handle the mormons and the fact that people seem to use the words “movie” and “show” interchangeably, but I was hardly prepared for those interminable winters which seemed to sneak up in the middle of fall, and then wrap the city in a slushy stranglehold for 6 miserable months. Fortunately for me, a marauding band of skateboarding weirdos took me under their mottled wing and showed me how to truly HUFF the marrow from a salt city summer before everything was doused in a crippling, powdery white. Full piece here.
River Runs Red: Bloodwizard Takes Your Town (SLUG Magazine)
Photo: Panzer Photography
It seems the spirit of healthy dueling stirs everyone’s nethers, and Magnethead offers a set of Heavy wheels to the best trick at the rail. Clad in a thematically appropriate Orlando Magic jersey and some sagging chinos, “Eminem” fast-fingers it with a buttery boardslide. Competition migrates back to the quarter (“Blood Wizard shirt for the best flyout!”) and I study the throbbing skateboard wizardry enveloping the park.
Full story here.
Live from Planet Wyndorf
You cant say that on TV maaan
Welp. It happened. At 7:00 AM on a Thursday morning, just before heading off to work, I called up my childhood rock hero to talk about the new Magnet record…warning: nerdery ahead.
Full interview here.
Ancient Heads (Mosher’s Delight Fanzine)
Originally appeared in Mosher’s Delight fanzine, a web version can be found here:
The core is most certainly relevant to every season. Somehow though, it seems more alive in the balmy days from Mid June-Late Sept.
Dylan Chadwick 