Articles by Matt Mernagh
Gwar
Role-playing Along
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
In the 1980s, at the height of the Dungeons and Dragons craze, if you made up your own characters, constructed costumes and wrote yourself...
Video Games Saved the Radio Star
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Everyone's got their finger on the button. It's not just for kids, rec room stoners, coin-feeding teens or under-employed 20-somethings. Bu...
Frank Black
Team Player
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
When Frank Black, then known as Black Francis, broke up the sonically charged Pixies in favour of putrid solo albums, I had written him off...
Coming Out In the Wash
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Sorting and the cost of laundry can take hours away from listening and purchasing music. Most people have to sort their clothes because the...
Music Of Mass Destruction
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Throughout history, music has been accused of being a bad influence on innocent youth, corrupting minds too naïve to properly understand th...
Suzanne de Bussac
The Valley Of Baca
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2000
Anyone who can appreciate the fine art of songwriting accompanied by fleeting moments of Kate Bush brilliance should become intimate with S...
Dixie's Death Pool
Beauty Sleep
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2000
The studio tomfoolery created by the brothers Hutzulak, and their partner in noise crime Todd Mason, blend elements of the Beta Band with a...
Malhavoc
The Lazarus Complex
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2000
Finding a muse for their sixth release has greatly improved Malhavoc. Unfortunately, the band has come to the Book of the Dead influence a...
