Why oh why do I remain so infatuated with Throbbing Gristle? Why do I feel a visceral thrill when I run across one of their albums in the wild that I don’t have… and why can’t I resist the urge to buy it? Is it evidence of some underlying psychological or emotional problem buried deep […]
Category: Industrial
DG 307 – “(1973-5)” (1991)
If the title of this blog looks like some kind of secret code, well, I agree with you. In fact part of it (DG 307) is a kind of code. A diagnostic one. And given that the story of (1973-5) takes place during the Cold War and involves censorship, secret police, and imprisonment, well… Our […]
SPK – “Auto-Da-Fé” (1983)
The Australian industrial band SPK took their name from the German Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv. The German SPK was founded in 1970 by a group of psychiatric patients and Dr. Wolfgang Huber, a movement and collective who viewed mental illness as being caused by the capitalist system. The SPK believed the doctor class of psychiatrists needed to […]
Pixel Grip – “Percepticide: The Death Of Reality” (2025)
When people find out I write a blog they often ask where I find new, or at least new-to-me music. The answer is sort of a generically disappointing “everywhere”. I hear about it from friends; connections in the liner notes; flipping through the new arrivals at record stores; and yes, even social media. Pixel Grip […]
Unfiled – “Unfiled” (2025)
It’s a little after 7PM and I’m sitting on my couch, sweating due to our lack of air conditioning and having brownies with whiskey because of the kind of bullshit today served up. What kind of bullshit, you ask? It involved maggots falling out of the console of my car and onto the floorboard and […]