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Swans: Where Does A Body End? (BLU)
Exhaustive documentary about the band Swans. Like one of Gira's songs, it's hypnotic, enveloping, and LONG - 161 minutes - but also briskly paced, thoroughly entertaining. As far as rock docs go, this is top-shelf material.
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When the Moon Turns to Blood (Book)
Leah Sottile
Absorbing true crime book that details the twisted, disturbing saga of former beauty queen Lori Valllow and her boyfriend, self-professed doomsday prophet Chad Daybell. Couldn't put it down.
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Adventures in Modern Recording (LP)
Buggles
"On T.V" is one of the most perfect songs ever recorded.
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Dehumanizer (CD)
Black Sabbath
The best Sabbath album after Ozzy's tenure isn't Heaven and Hell or Mob Rules. It's Dehumanizer. Like, by a mile.
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Sittin' On Chrome (LP)
Masta Ace
Absolute classic. One banger after another. Everyone should own it.
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Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides (LP)
Sophie
Next-level stuff. Listen to 'Ponyboy" on headphones. It's like an earthquake in your head.
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The Last American Virgin (BLU)
Forget Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller, Last American Virgin is the real deal. Along with Three O'Clock High, it's the best 80's highschool comedy. MVD just released a long-awaited blu-ray, and it's loaded with all kinds of cool stuff.
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The Runner (Original Soundtrack) (LP)
Boy Harsher
Always spooky, sometimes catchy electronic music you're gonna wanna dance to. This is the soundtrack to the short horror film they made themselves. It's weird and it's cool and I recommend listening as well as watching!
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Night & Love (LP)
Këkht Aräkh
Part black metal, part dark folk. This album is perfect. The quiet songs are so sad and sweet and I love them. Forever Night Castle of Love is the best song title period. I love it. I love this album.
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) (DVD)
Best movie of 2022! This movie is so sad and SO funny. Every single line made me laugh. More insane movies about friendship, please!!!
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Lease on Life (Cassette)
The Losers
Awww, yeah. The Losers...SF's finest. After witnessing their singer roll around screaming on the sidewalk outside the 16th Street BART station, I was hooked. I love the meaning they bring-- punk as a mode of operation rather than an attitude, a music taste, or a fashion style.
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If I Die, I Die (reissue) (CD)
Virgin Prunes
Admittedly I’ve had a bit of trouble lately keeping up with new music. What better excuse to talk about a recent reissue of an absolute classic from 1982, The Virgin Prunes’ “If I Die, I Die”?
The album is a stunning masterpiece from beginning to end, an uncompromising amalgam of angular post punk, twisted pop, and tribal rhythms. It is also one of the greatest goth records, before people started using that term.
An historical note that I’m still surprised a lot of people don’t know is that the members of the Virgin Prunes were childhood friends with U2, having all grown up in the same suburban Dublin neighborhood. Guggi was Bono’s best friend, and was actually responsible for giving him and most of the other kids their nicknames.
In many ways the Prunes can be seen as the evil opposite of U2. At the time both bands’ music struggled with similar issues: becoming adults, faith and lack of faith, pop and noise. But whereas U2’s struggle was toward the light, The Virgin Prunes embraced the darkness. It’s definitely worth taking a trip down that road with them.
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