No Cheap Holiday, These Other People’s Ecstasy: A 2014 Dennis Lyxzen Interview

    If you ask Dennis Lyxzen what he feels his late, great, future-punk band Refused's greatest accomplishment was, he might say something like,  "the greatest accomplishment was that we – in Sweden, ’93 to ’97, we toured and toured and toured, and we built a movement in Sweden of bands, of people that are still …

Interview with Henry Rollins from 2005

I interviewed Henry Rollins back in my salad days, and he quite presciently commented, “This is starting to sound like a fanzine interview." Though the interview was for a high-profile newspaper, I opted to take that as a compliment and, years later, emailed him to ask if I could use this interview in my zine. He wrote back …

Scenes from the Scene: Booze Riot, Replicant & Surgery Dot Com

DIY Surgery

Hello. My name is James, and I’m reviewing myself. This is what happened when my band, Surgery Dot Com, played at Comet Ping Pong on 11/19/11 with Booze Riot and Replicant, pushing our agenda of broken amps, wrecked minds and ruined lives. This was only Surgery Dot Com’s second show. The first one was in …

David Combs working at the Black Cat

Dave Homeowner reviews the last Corpse Fortress show

No music had started yet and the sun was still bright when I rolled up to the Corpse Fortress, but there were already quite a few people there, as is the case when any truly great venue is having its last hurrah – everybody wants to be on the scene. I ran into people I …