Articles by Joshua Ostroff
Jonas Akerland
Jonas Akerland
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
"God bless you, Mickey Rourke!" Crystal methamphetamine. Speed-freaks. The cook. Bleached-out celluloid. Masturbating monkeys. Don't answer...
Rinôçérôse Have Suicidal Tendencies
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
The beat boogies down in four-four time. Then a guitar breaks in, followed by a porno-bass line, some electronic burbles and finally a soft...
Nine Inch Nails
And All That Could Have Been
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
"This is almost what it felt like to be there," promises Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor on their new live DVD liner notes. It's not an empty...
Banning In the Name of
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Whether it be Rage Against The Machine's call to arms or John Lennon's plea to put them down, music has always been the soundtrack to the r...
The New Deal
Human Behaviour
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
"It was such a beautiful accident."Dan Kurtz, bassist for the New Deal, is reliving his band's birth. It was a legendary conception, a rock...
Almost in the Machine
PlayStation brings VR into the real world
PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2016
I'm in the bat cave. Like really in the bat cave. It's wetter than I imagined down here below Wayne Manor, with a pair of waterfalls tumbli...
Paper Mario: Color Splash
Wii U
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2016
Are there any game franchises as meta as Paper Mario? The Super Mario spinoff launched back in 2000 by literally splitting the difference b...
Forza Horizon 3
Xbox One, Windows
PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2016
Tracks are the racing genre's primary game design feature, but whether playing an unrealistic "arcade" racer like Mario Kart or a simulator...