ARTICLES: 2010

DECEMBER 2010

Features, Tributes and Commentaries:
TEN REASONS WHY “BRIAN WILSON: SONGWRITER, 1962 - 1969” SHOULD BE THE LAST BEACH BOYS DOCUMENTARY YOU NEED EVER WATCH by Gary Pig Gold click here
Digging For Treasure - Unearthing Rare Albums That Deserve A Listen click here
Picture Book - Collecting Groovy Rock Books click here
Interviews:
An Interview with Rob Cavestany, Death Angel founding guitarist click here
Power Pop Classic Turns 30 - An Interview with Van Temple of The Producers click here
Book Reviews:
"Arthur Penn: Interviews" (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) edited by Michael Chaiken and Paul Cronin click here
Music Reviews:
Various Artists-"Rockin' the Mistletoe", Al Jardine, Various Artists-“Natural Selections Vol. 1”, White & White, Dot Dash, Don McGlashan & The Seven Sisters, The Spears, Sweet Apple, Street Dogs, Thinning The Herd, Riotgod, The High Confessions, Talking To Walls, City of Fire, Park After Dark, Dusted Angel, Black River, Horseback, Sasquatch, Ashers, Malevolent Creation, Antogonist, Shapes, The Generators, System Divide, Return to Earth, Iron Thrones, Tangents, Dead Emotion, The Sleeping, Hello Nurse, The Adicts, Valdur, Black Anvil, Decembers Fall click here

OCTOBER 2010

Beatles-related:
"Let Him Be" - A film by Peter McNamee click here
Features, Tributes and Commentaries:
TEN REASONS WHY THE ROLLING STONES WERE THE WORLD'S GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND by Gary Pig Gold click here
The Rutles (almost) complete Vinyl Discography click here
Interviews:
Mike Clark of Suicidal Tendencies click here
Brian Fair of Shadows Fall click here
Oleg Galay of Other Voices Records click here
Book Reviews:
"Movie Makers-50 Iconic Directors from Chaplin to the Coen Brothers" By Ian Freer click here
Music Reviews:
Dragontears, Zac and Janna, Bangtower, Chambers, Kozeljnik, Delain, Votum, The Brought Low, The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza, Mr. Haynes, Woody Russell, Armagedda, Karma Never Forgives, Bonded By Blood, Blood Of Kingu, King Giant, What Remains, Proghma-C, Heathen Foray, Boris / Ian Astbury, Moth Eater, Accept, Warfear, Solace, Hell Within, Master, Sarah Jezebel Deva, The Funeral Pyre, Trigger the Bloodshed, Hawkwind, The Acacia Strain, Quest of Aidance, Sped, Mighty High, Stone Axe, Engrained, Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire, Lightning Swords of Death, Digamy, Masterplan, Leviathan, Chris Laney, Canvan Solaris, Soilwork, JPT Scare Band, A Body, An Evening With, Aeon, Istapp, Kingdom Of Sorrow, Early Man, Whitechapel, Pete Sanchez, Allegaeon, Mose Giganticus, Waking the Cadaver, This Comp Kills Fascists, Octaves, Age Of End, The Fucking Wrath, Resolution 15, Morbid Carnage, S.M.U.T, Empyreon, Nice New Outfit, Schleusolz click here

AUGUST 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
11 YEARS OF EAR CANDY!

Rants:
Rants from your humble editor: 11 Years?! click here
Beatles-related:
"Paul McCartney Really Is Dead - The Last Testament of George Harrison" DVD click here
Features, Tributes and Commentaries:
The Lost Art of the Non-Album Single By Zachary Williams click here
UNSEEN JOHN, MICK, KEITH, CHARLIE, BILL, AND EVEN BRIAN via Gary Pig Gold click here
Interviews:
Interview with Jamey Jasta click here
Interview with Ken Charman from Nonpoint click here
Interview with Gary Holt of Exodus click here
Book Reviews:
"Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine" click here
Music Reviews:
Snatch Magnet, Jerry Jennings, M-16, And Hell Followed With, The Casting Out, A Forest of Stars, Brain Drill, 1349, Grave, Kissin' Dynamite, As I Lay Dying, OV Hell, Dew Scented, Barren Earth, Setherial, Criminal Element, Unstoppagle Death Machines, Karma To Burn, Blaze Bayley, Decrepit Birth, Montana 1948, Misery Index, Shadow Of Demise, Catanonic Disassembly, Keep of Kalessin, Ramesses, Bob Pressner, Black Tusk, Change Today, Remaindermen, Masakari, Andy Gassaway, Al Jardine, Seasons After, Rosetta, Year of No Light, Schleusolz, Anchored, Downshallow, Nonpoint, Early Graves, Diabulus In Musica, Mouth of the Architect, Fatal Embrace, Ingested, Triumfall, October File, Big Ball, The Daisy Anthesis, Portal, Jackyl, The Breathing Process, Locusta, Jeff Beck, Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere, Bobby Charles, T-Model Ford, Scott Morgan, Blue Rodeo, Waylon Jennings, Justin Currie, Merle Haggard, Jakob Dylan, Drive-By Truckers click here

JUNE 2010

Beatles-related:
Interview with Eric Krasker, author of "THE BEATLES - FACT AND FICTION 1960-1962" click here
Features, Tributes and Commentaries:
“THE GREATEST ROCK MOVIE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN,” according to Steven Van Zandt (and Gary Pig Gold) click here
Elizabeth Cook "Welder" By Bill Vordenbaum click here
Interviews:
The lost Dash Rip Rock interview click here
Interview with Morgan Rose of Sevendust click here
Interview with Walter Schreifels click here
Interview with Lou Koller of Sick of It All click here
Interview with Flourishing click here
Book Reviews:
"Foxy: My Life in Three Acts: A Memoir" click here
Music Reviews:
Mehran, The Funky Knights, Angelfire - Steve Morse & Sarah Spencer, Stimulator, Inoculist, Expo, Flourishing, Walter Schreifels, Symphony In Demeanor, The Tygers, The Dirty White, Joe Stuckey, Streetlamps For Spotlights, Left Lane Cruiser, Culted, The Ocean, Kivimetsan Druidi, Scorpions, TSI, Hacienda, The Telescopes, Random Touch, Big Daddy Love, The Abominable Iron Sloth, Kings Destroy, Solution 45, The Forecast, Unholy Grave, Bison BC, Cathedral, Kills and Thrills, Danko Jones, Straphangers, Jessica Delfino, Armas Gathas, Gypsyhawk, Damsel, D.I.S., Woe Of Tyrants, Pain, Aun/Habsyll, Aluk Todolo, What Cheer? Brigade, Rusted Dawn, Howl, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Aldaaron, Annotations of An Autopsy, Charred Walls of the Damned, Vicio, Renae, This Moment In Black History, Heathen, Fozzy, Tribella, Stellar Vector, Gamma Ray, Psycho, Enthroned, Wormrot, Anima, Unleashed, The August Infinity, Rifoki, Ragnarok, Stark, The Crinn, Mason Reed, Lair of the Minotaur, Nekrasov, Aderlating, Mike Pacheco, Armored Saint, NAAM, Psycho Enhancer, Descender, Overmaster, Year Long Disaster, Sayyadina, Raven, Shazam, Frank Sinatra, Tom Petty, Isaac Hays, Nathaniel Mayer, Brimstone Howl, Buffalo Killers, Landmine Marathon, Batusis, Haken, Exodus, Haverstman/US Christmas/Minsk, Icarus Witch, Wuthering Heights, Slam One Down, Order of Ennead, Trident, Rotten Sound, Uffomammut, Jon Oliva's Pain, Orwell click here

APR 2010

Features, Tributes and Commentaries:
THE BRITISH ARE COMING...AGAIN sez Gary Pig Gold click here
Beatles-related:
Listen, Do You Want To Know A Secret? A.K.A. “Magic Alex” continued...By Walrus Gumboot click here
Book Reviews:
"The Beatles Fact and fiction - 1960-1962", "Dream Goes On Forever - The Continuing Story of Todd Rundgren Vol. 2-The Utopia Years", "The Letters of Allen Ginsberg" click here
Parody:
JOHN LENNON: HEAVY METAL PIONEER! click here
Music Reviews:
Gavin Guss, The Shake Ups, Die Wasted, The Dolly Rocker Movement, Paper The Operator, Calabrese III, Noriega, VTT, Orphaned Land, Sons of Azrael, White Wizzard, Arsis, Liquid Divine, Hydrovibe, Barnburner, Lesion, Aeternam, Indyus, AM Conspiracy, Face Value, The Deadlyz, A Family Plot, Vultus, Mnemic, XP8, Bona To Vada, Balaclava, Social Standards, Relevant Dead, Killing Time, Valkyrja, Killcode, Sectioned, Nassau Chainsaw, Immolation, Atrolicty Solution click here

FEB 2010

Features, Tributes and Commentaries:
HARVEY KUBERNIK in his CANYON OF DREAMS: by Gary Pig Gold click here
Beatles-related:
Beatles Mystery: Please Please Me and Record Chart Revisionism? click here
Interviews:
Interview with Silent Partner click here
Interview with Gwynbleidd drummer Adam Romanowski click here
Book Reviews:
"Easy Rider" (BFI Publishing, paperback) click here
Parody:
The NEW Abbey Road Casino! click here
Music Reviews:
Black Irish Texas, Ringo Ska, The Graves Brothers Deluxe, Aetherius Obscuritas, Javelina, Struck By Lightning, Swallow The Sun, Skeletonwitch, King Hell, MÅNEGARM, Dark Funeral, Pistol Whip, Deathalizer, Leo Biollo, The Resurrection Sorrow, Baroness, Impious, Megasus, Karnivool, Immortal, Sexstone, Aosoth, Picastro, Fear Report, Inferno, Six Feet Under, Grendel, Grind Madness At The BBC click here

JAN 2010

Features, Tributes and Commentaries:
GARY PIG GOLD's NOUGHTIE TWENTY-ONE click here
Beatles-related:
What Goes On? click here
Book Reviews:
"Big Star: The Short Life, Painful Death, and Unexpected Resurrection of the Kings of Power Pop" click here
Music Reviews:
Scar Symmetry, The Erupters, Mr. Death, Raise the Red Lantern, White Mice, Exemption, Hypocrisy, Tonight We Ride, Handful of Hate, Wizardry, Gama Bomb, Gorgoroth, Belphegor, Tin Huey, Fight Amp, Diablo Royale, Devin Townsend, Gods Green Earth, Walken, Ruby Bullet, Dali's Llama, Ichabod, Nile, DOA, The Red Chord, Slayer click here