CD review: Loser Superhero, La Realidad El Deseo

Loser SuperheroLa Realidad El Deseo

CD review: Grammatical B & Microphone Mike, The Birthinating

Grammatical B & Microphone Mike The Birthinating Seven tracks of unashamedly white-boy rap. I’m immediately reminded of a DIY version of The Bloodhound Gang with the lyrics’ socially-oriented subject matter and the nerdy sounding vocals of early Beasties. Ben Johnson’s newest project here is a remarkable departure from his hardcore punk bands previous to this and frankly I was skeptical […]

new music and film review – GRIMOON’s Super 8/Neera

Grimoon Super 8 – the album; Neera – the movie CD/DVD reviewed by Reviewer Rob CD & DVD 2-disc package, produced by Scott Mercado, recorded at Macaco Country Studio in Tevisto, Italia, and mastered in San Diego at Kitch & Snych by Sven Eric Seaholm, grimoon.com, 500records.com Grimoon is an Italo-French band formed in 2003 that plays at The Casbah […]

Check this pretty lady out… Malanna Monroe

Malanna Monroe A Musical Reflection of Your Light Self Released, 2010 myspace.com/malanna Reviewed by Kent Manthie Hailing from Tennessee, USA, but with stops along the way in Detroit and Louisiana. Her new CD, a refreshing little DIY thing called A Musical Reflection of Your Light, is out now and a generous sampling of some tunes from it are on her […]

CD review: Git Some, from Alternative Tentacles

Review by Ty Clark “From the ashes of Planes Mistaken For Stars comes Git Some! This is their 2nd record and their 1st with The Bat!” ~AlternativeTentacles.com When I put on this album I couldn’t help but feel a little hesitant about the content that laid before me but, sure enough, the album gets progressively better. The sound feels like […]

Two new releases from Silber Records!

The Wet Teens Let it Pee Silber Records www.silbermedia.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie Ahh…to be a carefree teenager again: invincible, immortal, no responsibilities save getting good grades scoring a bitchin’ ride. On a slight detour from the average Silber Records CD, which is usually more experimental-driven, drone-noise-ambient-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink types of tinkering and toying with. The Wet Teens’ new CD, Let it […]

Megan Pagoda video interview

Here’s a video interview with Megan Pagoda, a San Diego performance artist affiliated with the local Burningman community. This interview was shot months and months ago in her downtown San Diego art space she shared with several other artists. Megan is currently based out of downtown Los Angeles. I like this video because she has such an interesting pixie look […]

Hellenistic

Art Nudes/Female Figure Studies Beauty & the Art Of The Nude I’m going to be posting more nudes, well, “art photos” and “female figure studies,” as they’re sometimes called. There’s eventually going to be password-protected galleries for paying members. That’s the plan. 🙂 I’ve officially started with one of this fine model pictured, and posted it on our index page […]