new music: 2 CDs

TweetCompany Car Stop Hitting Yourself Company Car Music, 2011 www.companycarmusic.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie A new DIY band that hails from San Francisco, Company Car, is a basically listenable, not off-putting band that has a certain upbeat quality to their songs that, unfortunately, we have to put in that box called “Emo” – now, after so many hits to the […]

movie short review: “Hollywood”

[Short Film] “Hollywood” Directed/Produced & Written my Michael Golon Reviewed by Kent Manthie Tweet In eleven minutes you don’t usually think that one can put together a film that really goes anywhere or at least tells a complete story. Well Michael Golon put together Hollywood -it’s a sort of film school project of sorts – the ground rules were that […]

New Music worth digging:

Tweet Death Valley High Doom in Full Bloom Minus Head Records Label Contact: brad@minushead.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie This slick, dope-metal outfit has Hollywood written all over it: the shiny veneer, PVC practically showing through the speakers. It’s got a primal sexual urge to it that only reaches a humanoid catharsis through cocaine or speeeeed. Dope In Full Bloom is […]

new indy film: TRANTASTIC

[Indy Film] Trantastic ScumbagMovies.com Released 2011 by Brandon and Leia Gadow With music by Damn Laser Vampires, ∆AIMON, Paul Rey, The Jim Rowdy Show, Uncle Butcher Reviewed by Kent Manthie Tweet Transastic is the new film put out by those wild & crazy guys at Scumbag Movies. The film is made like a documentary that follows about five drag queens, […]