Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt, Tom Stern’s bio-doc chronicling the chaotic yet culturally significant career of San Antonio, Texas’ Butthole Surfers, was much-lauded at South By Southwest earlier this year for its revelatory examination of the band—which lives up to its title with a humorous, heartfelt, and unflinchingly honest approach. It’s also […]
Ken Vasoli connects with Taijuan Walker. A lot of Phillies fans, including plenty in the crowd around us at Citizens Bank Park, don’t have much faith in him as one of the starting pitchers in a team with World Series aspirations in the business end of the season. Walker’s having a tough night so far. […]
“This is hell out here,” Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe says over the phone from Nashville. “It’s just so fuckin’ humid. It completely negated my shower.” Despite the sweaty circumstances, Newcombe is otherwise in high spirits a few days into the band’s current U.S. tour. “It’s an opportunity to say hi to old friends, […]
“Singing is my true instrument,” says Bria Salmena, the L.A.-based singer-songwriter who might be most famous for playing guitar in Orville Peck’s touring band. “That’s really my preferred form of expression. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to put myself deeper into my songs, how to make my songs more like emotional journeys.” […]
South Bend, Indiana-born singer-songwriter October London might be the closest we’ve come to seeing the full aspiration of the original Death Row Records, founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, Dick Griffey, and Harry-O. For all the legendary rappers—2Pac, Snoop, and the heat that trailed them—Death Row was always reaching for something […]
“My mom owned an antique store when I was a kid, so I think I just got into collecting old stuff from a young age,” says Caleb “Bones” Owens. “I love collecting a lot of things, whether it be guitars, motorcycles, or records.” Lately, Owens has been getting a lot of mileage out of those […]
There are times when a band comes along and takes possession of the moment — carries you along with them. I want to tell you my story of Oasis and why it matters today. Somewhere in the dregs of being a desperate, unsigned musician in San Francisco in the spring of 1994, I got a […]
When Black Rebel Motorcycle Club released their third album, Howl, in 2005, the reaction was polarizing. The trio had made their name with a fuzz-drenched wall of rock ‘n roll that quickly won over critics and audiences. But after two albums in that vein, they took a sharp turn. As Zac Crain put it in […]
Jake Kiszka didn’t need to put another musical project on his agenda. As Greta Van Fleet’s guitar player, Kiszka has been on an accelerating rocket ship since the group’s major label launch in 2017. But it wasn’t enough for Kiszka to play blistering live shows with his brothers in their Grammy-winning group. On their last […]
As hip-hop was first blooming, with small steps, into the mainstream culture, long before it was the Earth-straddling phenomenon it became, a small cohort of photographers was capturing it in its infancy in New York City. Joe Conzo took some of hip-hop’s first ‘baby pictures’ in the 1970s, including of early b-boys and b-girls, DJs […]