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 […]
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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, […]
Summer Sunscreen Action
It’s SUMMER! Protect your skin. Michelle Nachtigall Tweet Ahhhh, Summer, a magical time filled with trips to the beach and booze infused nights on the patio. It’s also a time when we can relax a bit and take a laid back approach to beauty. Ladies, this is NOT the time to be fussing with your hair or worrying about meticulously […]
Time for Government to Catch Up to Reality!
The Politics of Pot By Kent Manthie Tweet On Friday, May 27 severe new regulations were slated to go into effect in the city of San Diego – a de facto ban according to supporters of the right of those who qualify and who continue to suffer from various illnesses due to the asinine politics of trying to overturn what […]
Two great but divergent CDs: Alex Lynch, welcome to America
Alex Lynch One Glimpse Away Self-Released, 2010 Tweet Reviewed by Kent Manthie Talk about hitting the jackpot with a DIY project: Alex Lynch, a native Russian who seems to have a pretty damn good grasp of English, has just put out one of two releases he currently has on the market. One Glimpse Away is a 6-song EP that just […]
LISTEN UP!!! Great new CD by T.S. Brooks
T.S. Brooks Reacclimator Self-Released, 2011 Reviewed by Kent Manthie [Recorded between January and February, 2011, in sunny San Diego, CA, at the House of Plenty. New songs, like ‘Spiral anymore’ and ‘When you sleep’ blend well with hitherto unrecorded live favorites ‘Ribbon’ and ‘Kelly in se.’ Quite raw, quite sparse, quite real; and only available digitally (until further notice). ~ […]
Best Show of the Year!!!
Joan of Arc @ The Casbah, San Diego 5/16/11 Review by Kent Manthie On Monday, May 16th a select few lucky San Diegans were honored to be present at a blissful show: the amazing Chicago outfit Joan of Arc played an outrageous, stupendous and awesome show at the Casbah. Opening up was local band Street of Little Girls and Airwaves, […]
Three new iconoclasts from Polyvinyl
of Montreal thecontrollersphere Polyvinyl Records, 2011 www.polyvinylrecords.com Review by Kent Manthie After 10 great CDs by this genre-bending, androgynous outfit led by maestro Kevin Barnes, of Montreal has just released a little EP – thecontrollersphere, a five song experience that is typical of the gender-bending, hyper-sexual, disco-on-acid style wiggles that are at their peak in 2009’s Skeletal Lamping and 2008’s […]