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The Unknown Eyes See All: Genesis’ “Watcher of the Skies”

Back in 2023, I was moved as much by a clip of live music as I was by a story posted in the YouTube comments. In fact, I was so moved...

Falling into Dark Autumn: 5 Perfect Albums for the Season

So, follow my lit jack-o-lantern as we enter the quixotic soundscapes that fit the Harvest season like a black leather glove.

Dudes in Prison & the Hot Babes That Love Them: Incarceration in 1980s Hard Rock/Metal Music Videos

The concept of incarceration in the real world is terrifying. Anytime you lose autonomy via a highly flawed system, and then are forced...

Don't Like, Don't Subscribe, Just Watch: Interview with Barefoot & Independent’s Jason Heath

Seeking is, undoubtedly, one of the most rewarding things you can ever do in life. Too many folks walk around all boxed-in while not even...

Pants Off in the Art Museum: Gabriel Axel's Sex & the Law

Few things are more appealing, if not downright sexy, than when the lines between highbrow and lowbrow get blurred. It’s a cultural sweet...

Lights Like Fog: Lycia's Casa Luna

Beauty…true beauty…shifts into shapes and shadows. This is not the beauty that has been turned into a cold-hearted commodity to help...

My Sleepy Summer in Hell: The Polonia Brothers' & Todd Michael Smith's Splatter Farm

There is something inherently unhealthy about forced time with your family, especially when you’re younger and all but birthed onto an...

Teenage Blues Triptych: The Pom Pom Girls, Blue Summer, & The Last American Virgin

Growing up is hard. Not as hard as losing a limb while in the middle of guerrilla warfare, hosting an especially ugly intervention, or...

Polyester in Blood: An Ode…of Sorts to Doctor Gore

“Hey, Kid! Wanna chikn’ biscuit?” the greasy man smiles as you slowly start to back away, even though you are a little hungry. Then...

April-May Showers Bring Podcastin' Flowers

If one was to program a podcast series in honor of the Spring season, they might be tempted to discuss the technicolor jubliance of...

Missive to Loozanteen: We Love You, Robert Haimer

Robert Haimer is gone. Well, at least in his physical form, since a cat like that can never truly be gone. Some artists are so...

No Man is an Island:Bill Ward's Ward One: Along the Way

I originally wrote this back in 2017 for my old Mondo Heather blog. It's now a few years later and this album is STILL out-of-print....

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