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• Dark Side of the Death Star (or How I Wasted Eleven Months of My Life)

  by James Greene, Jr.•July 9, 2008•Comments (0)

  White Zombie’s landmark 1992 album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 certainly seemed like the type of sample-heavy rock freak-out that would align perfectly with a wild, outer space adventure starring Mark Hamill. Also, I figured it would be pretty cool watching Darth Vader parade around to all those bad-ass metal riffs. That alone might keep me from dozing off in the middle of said experiment. The following evening (read more)

• Not Dead Yet: Why the Album Isn't Going Anywhere

  by Adam Bunch•May 21, 2008•Comments (8)

  By 2007, just four years after the very first iPods hit the shelves, single-song sales were already accounting for two-thirds of the music market. Individual tracks outsell albums online 19 to 1. And between 2000 and 2005, CD sales plummeted by 25 percent. Tower Records has crumbled. iTunes has exploded. (read more)

• Fang: Landshark

  by James Greene, Jr.•May 7, 2008•Comments (4)

  Luckily, there’s usually someone thinking ahead of the curve, a group or person actually being so punk they put everyone else in their class to shame. Fang was such a group. (read more)

• Down in the Scuzz With the Heavy Cult Figures

  by Charles Shaar Murray•April 16, 2008•Comments (0)

  Originally published in NME, 7 June 1975 CBGB is a toilet. An impossibly scuzzy little club buried somewhere in the section of the Village that the cab-drivers don't like to drive through. (read more)

• Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures

  by Chris Ott•April 16, 2008•Comments (0)

  Hannett famously disassembled Stephen Morris’ drum kit down to its metal rims, searching for a rattle that was bleeding through due to his brilliant technique (read more)

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