Call U: The Latest Gospel According to Everyone’s Hometown Hero, Hot Leather
Hello friends. A year ago, we sat down with the meme lord Clyde Webb, aka Hot Leather aka @kornfan420 aka the spiritual embodiment of drinking in a parking lot. Since […]
Tag Archives: Thirsty Thursday
Identifying with Underground Music without Engaging in a Local Scene: The Why’s and How’s
Like with all juicy topics, this one started with a conversation with my therapist. Bearing in mind that I’m new in town, she was curious about what measures I’ve taken […]
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 […]
Victim Narratives Are Being Obscured: Dahvie Vanity, the Online Horror Community, and Beyond
When it comes to discussion of abuse of any kind, the abuser oftentimes tries to absolve themselves of blame by saying that their victim is telling stories. While this accusation […]
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, […]
Experimental Post-Hardcore in 2018: The Case Studies of nothing,nowhere’s. “Rejecter” and Falling in Reverse’s “Losing My Life”
In the past couple of weeks, I have witnessed the very opposite ends of the spectrum of experimental post-hardcore’s current state (I’ve always understood that to be the politically correct […]
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 […]
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 […]
