Nate Kinsella’s Birthmark – new release!

New Music from Polyvinyl Tweet Birthmark Antibodies Polyvinyl Records, 2012 Review by Kent Manthie The third full-length CD by Birthmark, Nate Kinsella’s solo project, entitled Antibodies is out now, on Polyvinyl Records. Antibodies is such a beautiful album, you can tell that Nate went through a lot work in the studio, making everything sound so perfect; it’s an album that […]

Author & Punisher Announces New West Coast Tour Dates

Music From San Diego Tweet Reported by Katherine Sweetman Author & Punisher Announces New West Coast Tour Dates San Diego artist/ musician, Tristan Shone, is the man behind the madness. He will be flying solo, tearing through California, Washington, and Oregon in support of his forthcoming Seventh Rule Recordings debut, “Ursus Americanus” (due out in digital and digipak CD on […]

Joanna Angel, of BurningAngel.com

Miss Burning Angel, in the Flesh Two videos from the Joanna Angel feature last night at Deja Vu Midway are below. See more from the night in the VIP Lounge at Reviewer.xxx. Joanna Angel bio: [Photo at right and text below copied shamelessly from her Wikipedia page.] Early life Angel was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Orthodox Jewish […]

Get Ready for a Sex-Up!

[New Music] of Montreal Paralytic Stalks Polyvinyl Records, 2012 Reviewed by Kent Manthie Tweet With the brand new year upon us, 2012 is sure to bring some surprises. So far, the most intriguing one has been the new CD from of Montreal’s, Paralytic Stalks, a righteous return to the heady days of the mid 2000s. Just when you thought the […]

Saigon Cool: Posters, Tattoos and “Chicken Girls” + Interview with Punk Rocker and Bar Owner Ben Burns

Saigon Cool: Posters, Tattoos and “Chicken Girls” + Interview with Punk Rocker and Bar Owner Ben Burns Reviewer Goes Abroad Tweet By Katherine Sweetman Should you ever find yourself in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (aka Saigon), I have four recommendations: 1) Shop at Lotus for vintage propaganda posters where you can get the originals and/or smaller prints of real Vietnamese agitprop […]

Dance Until Your Brain Falls Out!

Kohib Make Fire-The Remixes 8D Promo Tweet Reviewed by Kent Manthie Kohib, a Scandinavian dance combo has just released Make Fire -The Remixes. It’s a CD featuring 9 songs of “Nu-Disco” on it, each track re-mixed by a different outfit, e.g. “Push Me Down” has four versions, remixed by four entities: track one, remixed by Stoyvind; track four and five […]

A Refreshing Blast of Mellow Music

Victor Villarreal Invisible Cinema Joyful Noise Records, 2011 Tweet Review by Kent Manthie This, the new solo CD from Victor Villarreal, guitarist extraordinaire, Invisible Cinema, is a real departure from his appearance on the latest Joan of Arc CD, Life Like, on which he appears as one of the twin lead guitarists (Tim Kinsella also plays guitar). Life Like is […]

The Charles Manson/O.B. Influence

The bankrolling of Charlie Manson Tweet Capitalist Point Loma Wealth Funded The Manson Family I had heard of this Sandra Good and Point Loma — Manson connection a couple of years ago and it made sense. There has always been an element of darkness in the hippie scene here in Ocean Beach. ~Editor Manson Girl Sandra Good’s Early life Sandra […]