Here’s my picks for the top ten heavy metal records of 1981:

Yup. A day late, several trillion dollars short.

God, what a stupid year

The best band is Van Halen.

Trolling needs its Manhattan Project!

Gay Conversion Therapy isn’t just a hoax - it’s evil. My cousin was forced to try it four years ago by our grandparents. When he came back he had nothing but horror stories and one particularly stuck with me. He told me that when he decided to become gay he made a pact with himself that it was a final and permanent…

Isn’t low screen time standard arch-villain protocol? That, more than anything else, increases the mystery surrounding them. It’s the Big Bad trope (although in this case the Emperor became the Bigger bad in ROTJ).

If the name doesn’t scare you off, Jeff Magnum’s awful, awful voice will.

They’re going to keep deleting the wrong things. It turns out that one of the side-effects of asking social media companies to delete shit you don’t like is that they’re going to end up deleting shit you do like, and then having to walk it back if the outrage is loud enough. Maybe we shouldn’t want social media…

What did you think was going to happen? You should have written

Skatrick Skateman? I love that guy!

You know, not every subject deserves a documentary or even acknowledgement that it once existed.

This post is so inside-baseball it is actually made of cork.

I was actually going to write about this. That first album by Montrose is one of the most impressive debut albums in rock and certainly one of the truly great hard rock/metal albums ever made. It is essentially proto-Van Halen with the same sort of energy that defined that band’s legendary self-titled five years…

Oh my God, please get off Facebook now, people. Not a single person in this fucking world needs Facebook’s “solution” to the fact that it is a cesspit by design.

People have gotta stop acting like Jill Stein is the reason the Democrats lost...

Ugh, what an awful pile of music. Though punk covers of Christmas carols are worse.

In the interim between ’90s indie rock and early 2000s post-punk, many of us Jimmies of that generation of American scenesters briefly went Mod. We championed rigidly revivalist garage bands like The Mooney Suzuki, and went to “soul” parties where we danced to Nuggets singles while old episodes of Shindig! were…

Hamilton 68 looks to be pretty much the same kind of nonsense propaganda as the “Prop or Not” op WaPo was pushing a while back. No documented rhyme or reason other than concluding that anything critical of anything in the U.S. must be a) false and b) Russian. For example they include anti-gun messaging and police…