Tom Gastall

The Suicide Girls have been around for over seven years. Originally their success was due to a combination of a DIY work ethic with an alt-rock aesthetic. Nowadays alt-softcore is getting mashed up with burlesque and other ideas, and we get to enjoy the results. Case in point: Club Suicide. The Club night is held [...]

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The first time I went to a show, I had no idea what I was getting into: Sonic Youth at the Living Room in Providence. I walked in and stood right in the middle of the audience, with a perfect view of the stage. The moment they broke into “Mary Christ”, the crowd erupted, and [...]

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My favorite music scene has always been industrial, because like punk, there was not only a community behind the music, but an intersection with philosophy and methodology. To be specific, I’m interested in the deconstruction and reorganization of found elements in order to produce a new meaning, or the "cut-up ". This informed not only [...]

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Photo by Lou O’Bedlam Sincerity is hard to come by in Echo Park, especially at night. Drive by the Echo any Friday, and you’re bound to see a dozen idiots with tight jeans, mullets, and Loverboy headbands; Bad outfits to convey irony, where the intent is actually to conform. So when I read that Queen [...]

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