Archive for February, 2012
So you guys know how sometimes I paint silly pitctures of cats, right? Well, this Thursday (March 1) I will have a little stall at the craft market in St. Kevin’s Arcade, K’Rd, as part of the First Thursdays art event held regularly on our most infamous street. Alongside the craft market there will be cycling [...]
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Denvor-based sludge-grind trio Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire released their EP Visceral last summer from Prosthetic Records. I’ve just now got around to giving it a spin, and I can tell you now – visceral it most certainly is. This isn’t music – it’s a sonic assault that leaves your eardrums broken [...]
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What do you get when you cross Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree with Rip Van Winkle and space cowboys? That would be Spiral – a 2-piece prog rock band from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their 2011 release, The Capital in Ruins, begun a modern retelling of Rip Van Winkle, only Rip is a scientist who creates [...]
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Many of you know I’m a HUGE fan of the ridiculous rock musical Repo: The Genetic Opera. Well its creators Terrance Zdunich and Darren Bousman have just released a trailer for their new project, a sideshow-themed piece called The Devil’s Carnival. I’m not really a fan of the carnival aesthetic or stories, so I’m not [...]
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You might have noticed things have been quiet around here this week. Not for me – I’ve been busy … a whole new level of busy. This past weekend I spent the day helping my friend Jaimee, of Cog and Compass, run her stall at AetherCon, the first annual NZ Steampunk Convention. What is Steampunk? Steampunk [...]
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Steff Metal interviews Tim “Ripper” Owens
Steve Hughes: Heavy Metal Comedy
Steff Metal reviews Zebulon Pike “Space Is the Corpse of Time”
Linking Horn: The Linking Games
