SG Radio feat. Vaud and the Villains
(image) This Sunday (Feb 13th) our very special in-studio guests will be LA’s very own 19 piece 1930s New Orleans Orchestra and Cabaret – Vaud and the...
SG Radio feat. Kristian Hoffman and Lucha VaVoom
This Sunday (Feb 6th) our very special in-studio guests will be psychedelic pop/rock dandy Kristian Hoffman and Mexican masked wrestling/burlesque/comedy...
Scott Ian’s Got Several Situations Going On
by Blogbot Scott Ian, the driving force behind Anthrax (and SG’s Food Coma columnist), has a lot of situations going on right now, so we thought it high...
SG Radio feat. Doug Freel – Director of FIX: The Ministry Movie (Jan 16)
This Sunday (Jan 16th) our very special in-studio guest will be award-winning music video director Doug Freel, who is the filmmaker behind the Al Jourgenson...
Like A Version: The Uncool Art of Serious Karaoke
by Brett Warner Every other Friday night, T.J. Byrnes Restaurant and Bar in Manhattan’s Financial District hosts a modestly produced karaoke night. The...
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Le Bon
by Brett Warner It’s 9:33 PM at the Detroiter Truck Stop in Woodhaven, Michigan and I’m inadvertently playing Duran Duran for the black metal band Goatwhore.
Michael Without Michael: The Case Against Posthumous Releases
by Brett Warner It has always been a bitter irony that death is the most commercially viable thing an artist can ever do. From Vermeer to Van Gogh, Nick...
Confessions of an Extreme Music Fan: Me, The Tank, The Swan, and Andy Bell
By Brian Johnson There are many opportunities to have an extraordinary experience that can transcend your expectations of a traditional event. Case in point,...
Street Drum Corps: Big Noise at The Roxy and on SG Radio (Nov 21)
by Blogbot (image) Bobby Alt, Adam Alt and Frank Zummo of Street Drum Corps can bang the shit out of anything and make it sound good – really fucking...
American Asshole: Why We Need Kanye West
Love him or hate him, Kanye West is America’s favorite asshole. His endlessly hyped new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy hits stores next week,...
Music on the Interwebz
by AJ Focht The music industry has won the day as file sharing program Limewire has been forced to stop its “searching, downloading, uploading, file trading...
Ari-Up (The Slits) R.I.P.
by Blogbot (video) Ari-Up (born Ariane Forster, 1962), founder of the highly influential and 100% original all-girl punk rock / reggae band The Slits, sadly...
Morrissey’s Bona Drag: A Classic Reissued
by Brett Warner A mere two months after the dissolution of The Smiths, former New York Dolls fan club president Steven Patrick Morrissey released a single...
Musical Subgenres: Friend or Foe?
by Brett Warner Indie folk troubadour Sufjan Stevens has a new album called The Age of Adz and despite what the iTunes Store and Amazon.com will tell you,...
Sweet Transvestites
by AJ Focht The time warp has flipped and landed The Rocky Horror Picture Show at its 35th anniversary. Marking three and a half decades as the premier...
It’s a Good Thing Trent Reznor Hates Facebook
by Brett Warner Anyone who’s seen the film understands that its soundtrack (by Reznor and frequent collaborator Atticus Ross) is responsible for much...
Rivers Cuomo Isn’t Full of Shit
by Brett Warner Few bands manage to perpetually frustrate their fans the way Weezer does. With each new album, singer/songwriter Rivers Cuomo – a semi-secret...
What Donald Glover Can Teach Us About The Nature of Identity
By Edward Kelly On paper, it seems like a no-brainer. Comedy and rap should, in theory, go together like Shakespeare and the stage – or CBS and derivative...
SG Exclusive Preview: Methods of Mayhem – All I Wanna Do
by Blogbot It’s been ten years since Tommy Lee has made a record under the Methods of Mayhem moniker. But with Mötley Crüe on hiatus in 2010, the drummer-cum-multi-instrumentalist...
SG Radio feat. Steven Adler of Guns N’ Roses
by Nicole Powers This Sunday (9/12) on SuicideGirls Radio our very special in-studio guest will be original Guns N’ Roses drummer and Celebrity Rehab...
A Brief History of the Headbang
by Pandie Suicide Welcome to a new series of “Brief Histories”, where I attempt to tell you a little about the history of certain aspects of heavy music,...
SG Radio feat. Richard Patrick of Filter
by Nicole Powers This week on SuicideGirls Radio our very special in-studio guest will be Richard Patrick, founder and frontman of Filter. We’ll be talking...
How To Approach An Interview – For Musicians
by Pandie Suicide So you’ve been lucky enough to score yourself an interview! Whether you’re a veteran or a first-timer this can be a nerve-wracking...
‘Just Like Heaven’ and Other Dating Dealbreakers
by Brett Warner “I don’t really like this song.” She achieves in six offhand words what took Robert Smith most of the last two decades to accomplish:...
SG Radio feat. Greg Puciato of The Dillinger Escape Plan
by Nicole Powers This week on SuicideGirls Radio our very special in-studio guest will be Greg Puciato, frontman of punk rock metal band The Dillinger Escape...
Bands Paying Fans: A New Low for Music?
by Jay Hathaway If you had told me in the early 2000s — when I was still in high school and saving my summer job money to buy new CDs — that indie bands...
BlankTV Weekly Video Roundup!
Eyes Set to Kill: Are Eyes Set to Kill sisters, Alexia and Anissa Rodriguez still the two hottest girls in metal? That’s what the media was saying about...
BlankTV Weekly Video Roundup!
Happy Friday the 13th from BlankTV! We normally release our video premieres on Tuesdays but our friends The Dopamines insisted that we do this new one...
How To Get Your Band Signed To A Record Label
by Pandie Suicide Getting signed is at the top of a lot of bands to-do lists. It marks the pinnacle of their careers, a sign that you’re really ‘making...
How To Survive a Rock-n-Roll Tour
by Pandie Suicide Today’s post on the music industry is going to be a little more ‘how-to’ than last week’s piece of mine on What it Means to Be...
The Day The Music Died
by Damon Martin I was in my car today, listening to my iPod while driving to the movies, and put on a play list I made that put all my favorite Seattle...
Free E-Day
1st December 2009 is being designated Free-e-day, when independent artists, writers, musicians, photographers and film-makers are giving away a sample of...
Playing for Change: Songs around the World
So I was browsing Facebook the other day and came across a link from a friend of mine. Oftentimes I ignore these, but she had previously linked me to the...
Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: The Musical Future
Years ago, I had a conversation with my son about my record collection, and he couldnt believe that we used to put records in crates that were heavy and...
Music Business Bail-Out?
I guess if I'm going to be a columnist for SG, I'm going to have to talk about something I know well. I go back and forth about one particular...
Polly Jean Strikes Again!
(image) English musician and songwriter, PJ Harvey, released her eighth studio album, White Chalk, on Tuesday September 24th and critics are giving it excellent...
YouTube Charts
Like the Billboard charts, except not rigged by ex-cons. Chart positions as of Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 at 3:00pm. Rankings may change according...
Martin Atkins' Tour:Smart: the Tour!
I came across an amazingly candid (and funny) list of annoyances from The Creepy Crawl in St Louis. Im going to be there in a couple of weeks so I hope...
Martin Atkins' Tour:Smart: You've Got Questions, We've Got Answers!
Im out and about NYC this week, NY Red Bulls on Saturday - closing party is Wednesday, then NORWAY. Come and say Hi. Thanks to the wonderful people...
Martin Atkins' Tour:Smart: First Things First!
Thanks for all of the great comments, quotes and support on the book. For this weeks column I am reprinting some thoughts I was asked to contribute to...



