Articles by Matt Mernagh
Snog
Third Mall from the Sun
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999
While Snog does a great job of enlightening about the pressing political issues of consumerism, morally corrupt corporations and personal d...
Various
Thin Edge of The Wedge
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999
An impressive premier release from Toronto’s newest industrial label, ArtofFact Records, is guaranteed to please children of night wi...
Bauhaus
Gotham
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999
Who wouldn’t want a memento of one of Bauhaus’s better shows from 1998’s Resurrection tour. Thankfully, they chose New Yo...
Meg Lee Chin
Piece and Love
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999
“If you take a bar in a song at random and you loop it, it always sounds cool,” Meg Lee Chin reveals about her superb slick mel...
Charles Douglas
The Lives of Charles Douglas
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999
Lou Reed's lost mojo has finally been recovered by the unlikeliest of characters in Charles Douglas. That mojo is one powerful dope fuelled...
Lies
Underdogs and Infidels
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999
Straddling the line between punk and goth has been done most notably by bands like Joy Division, Bauhaus and Alien Sex Fiend. You can now a...
Marilyn Manson
The Last Tour on Earth
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999
One wonders why Manson would stick a new song at the end of this otherwise spectacular live album. There is nothing wrong with the industri...
Muse
Showbiz
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999
Madonna's Maverick label whored themselves silly in their effort to sign Muse, a three-piece Brit band whose non-stop crescendos in their s...