AC/DC Keeps the Power On

Photo of AC/DC band

AC/DC, love them or hate them, is a priceless lesson that when life squirts unimaginably tragic lemonade in your eyes, the fortitude to believe in your music/art can help you mend from the heartache of a tragedy. It can also lead to something awesome. No hairs will be split about who the better singer was, Bon Scott or Brian Johnson; it’s a masturbatory and childish argument because this is about what AC/DC accomplished that no other band in the history of rock n roll has.

Lucia Cifarelli “Lights Out” Review

Lucia Cifarelli

As someone who has written two screenplays based on school shootings (both rejected for being too sad, uh, no shit, life isn’t a Hallmark movie) and the horrific impact they have on the victims, I was thunderstruck when I listened to Lucia Cifarelli’s “Lights Out”. It is a melancholy industrial rock track that wrestles with and calls attention to the epidemic of school gun violence that’s plagued the US since Columbine. Story-driven and minimalist by design,“Lights Out’s” hamster wheel musical arrangement feeds right into LC’s hypnotic voice, punctuating the cyclical (and sick) nature of these terror attacks.

Black Moon Rising (1986) – Review

We gather here today to chat about 1986’s Black Moon Rising, a sci-fi action movie in the not-quite-Z genre that has the heart of a Carpenter movie but none of his signature nihilistic testosterone and progressive politics.

Myth Carver’s “Twist of Fate” EP – Review

Twist of Fate by MYTH CARVER, the band’s newest EP, rocks your helter-skelter dopamine levels with an eighties sound that’ll quickly remind you why you fell in love with heavy metal in the first place.