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Is the world ready for comedy death-metal albums? Evidently As I Lay Dying singer Tim Lambesis thinks so, having recently launched a side project/Arnold Schwarzenegger tribute comedy act called Austrian Death Machine.

Titled Total Brutal, this tossed-off collection of searing thra… Continue

There's no doubt that listeners are in for something special when the debut album by this New York City-based dance-music project--masterminded by DJ-cum-producer Andrew Butler--opens with the rich alto of singer Antony Hegarty, of Antony and the Johnsons fame.

On “Time Will,” Antony’s cabar… Continue

What if Little Richard had joined Hasil Adkins and recorded with Bill Spector, Phil's rigoddamndiculous brother, in Sanford and Son's mobile recording unit? Or, what if GG Allin had been the Svengali behind a boufannt-ed girl group, having them out-raunch anybody while maintaining sweetness and… Continue

In literature, "synaesthesia" is used to describe a certain type of metaphor, employing a descriptive term usually used for one sense to describe an experience associated with another, like calling something visually boring "quiet." It's also a neurological condition in which people associate words… Continue

The twilight-saturated folk-pop of Neil Halstead is a pleasure to listen to, even if, like soy products, his music diminishes manhood and makes dudes feel twee--especially when their girlfriends bust them spinning Halstead's latest, Oh! Mighty Engine, in the car stereo. That’s OK, since the… Continue