A Tale of Two Valefors
Given the thematic crossover among metal bands, duplicates in the name game are inevitable. There’s nothing quite like the shock and terror of searching for your new favorite funeral doom […]
Tag Archives: Jenna
Rock and Roll Might Be Dying, But Its Spirit Lives on in Post-Metal
Chronically tardy to the party, the jimmy-rustling headlines of rock being dead is one I’ve just gotten around to consciously acknowledging. Before I even knew this was a widely-identified topic, […]
Coming up For Air: How Tana, and Ultimately, Tanacon, Proved Too Good to Be True
If you watch YouTube in the same fashion that old people watch the television set, you know that storytimer Tana Mongeau threw her own convention a couple of weeks ago […]
The Difficult Feelings Raised by a Difficult Life: XXXtentacion
Author’s Note: The decision to give public space to someone problematic can be a tough one. That being said, anxious feelings and relevant perspectives shouldn’t be locked away. Writing has […]
Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: Maintaining a Healthy Relationship with Music & Current Favorites
As far as my “music journalist” shtick goes (a term I apply extremely loosely), your girl Thursday has historically produced some pretty dang self-important, obscuro-ass album lists. While I really […]
Goth By The Pool
While I don’t have a washer, dryer, car, pinky ring, or even Gucci slides, I do technically have a pool. Well, as my sister once said about the three-feet-deep rectangle […]
Just Know When I Go Play Chop Suey at my Funeral (The Pouya Show)
Well, there I was—adrift in a bunch of underaged kids pushing each other like shaken atoms as sweat dripped off stick and poke tattoos, lip rings, and mini backpacks. I […]
Dying and Starting Over: Reflections on Growing Pains in Life, Art, & Identity (Re: Grav3yardgirl/Shane Collab)
In yet another appendix in my dissertation on YouTube, I’d like to discuss the case of Bunny Meyer, aka Grav3yardgirl. Thanks to her feature in a miniseries spearheaded by YouTube […]
