Glenn Danzig

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Marnie Stern, Hendrix, Bowie and a Very Special Guest

KCRW BROADCAST #209 03-30-13 Fanatics! I am well aware that you might be getting tired of reading that "tonight's show is amazing" week after week, but what can I say, tonight is a great one. For instance, look at our first track. That's right, Fanatic, thirty years ago, the Birthday Party live at ... More >>

Rock of Ages Review: Why Hair Metal Is 'Bone Stupid, Creatively Bankrupt, Morally Debased Pop Trash'

Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two great American traditions--guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater--so thoroughly, mutually degraded. This mess originated as a stage productio ... More >>

Danzig Says He Would Have Played Wolverine Less 'Gay' Than Hugh Jackman

See also: *Glenn Danzig's Amazing Art Collection *The Craziest Danzig Stalker of Them All *Glenn Danzig's Head On Other People's Bodies: An Appreciation Glenn Danzig is a hard man to get face time with, so we were extremely psyched to meet up with him at his management company's Wilshire Blvd. off ... More >>

Punk Legends Pennywise Have a New Singer, But You Shouldn't Write Them Off

Perhaps Pennywise's forthcoming album, All or Nothing, due out May 1, is aptly titled: It's the South Bay punk legends' first release since 2008 and their first ever without longtime lead singer Jim Lindberg. "Working with Jim was no longer amicable," says guitarist Fletcher Dragge. "He was unhapp ... More >>

Best Posts Of The Week

Jena Ardell​"It's fucking Halloween, do you know where your skull is?" Glenn Danzig asked the crowd at Gibson Amphitheater on Monday night. Actually, it was his skull that was showing up in strange places this week, as Jena Ardell imagined what scenes from famous movies would look like if Danz ... More >>

Glenn Danzig - Gibson Amphitheatre - 10-31-11

Ben Westhoff​See also: *The Craziest Danzig Stalker of Them All *Glenn Danzig's Amazing Art Collection *Glenn Danzig's Head On Other People's Bodies: An Appreciation Glenn Danzig Gibson Amphitheatre 10-31-11 Better than...God damn sons of a bitch. "It's fucking Halloween, do you know where ... More >>

Glenn Danzig's Head On Other People's Bodies: An Appreciation

​See also: *The Craziest Danzig Stalker of Them All *Glenn Danzig's Amazing Art Collection Ahead of Danzig's show at Gibson Ampitheater tonight -- and in the midst of our Danzig-palooza festivities -- we told you last week about his most insane stalker. This certifiably-nuts fan was caught o ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

The Craziest Danzig Stalker of Them All

Fred Harper​Story by Alex Distefano Glenn Danzig brings his Danzig Legacy show to Gibson Amphitheatre on Halloween. On this short tour, for the first time he's performing his solo material and songs from Samhain and Misfits all in one night. This got us really, really excited. But it turns ... More >>

Glenn Danzig's Amazing Art Collection

Alex DistefanoDanzig's bodyguard Russ MacKay holds two rare records, Samhain's "Unholy Passion" and Danzig's #1 classical music record, "Black Aria"​By Alex Distefano This week on West Coast Sound: Danzig-palooza! In honor of Glenn Danzig's Halloween show at Gibson Amphitheater -- in which ... More >>

The Misfits - House of Blues - 10-04-2011

Javier Cabral​The Misfits and The Dickies House of Blues 10-05-2011 More than three decades in, The Misfits are still doing it, with or without Glenn Danzig. To the orthodox practitioner of punk rock, watching these guys play power chords is as big as watching Black Sabbath or Metallica. It ... More >>

Tom Neely's The Wolf: New 'Painted Novel' About Wolf-On-Human Romance is 'A Love Song to My Wife'

Courtesy of Tom Neely​ L.A. cartoonist Tom Neely is perhaps best known for his role as founding father of Igloo Tornado, the crazy comic collective who published the hilarious mini comic Henry Glenn Forever, which reimagined the friendship between hardcore punk musicians Henry Rollins and Gl ... More >>

Igloo Tornado: Fan Friction

Five Nerd Heroes From LA Weekly's New People Issue

Patton Oswalt and Grumpus​ LA Weekly's brand new People Issue, out on newsstands Thursday, has enough nerd heroes to fill a whole, err, nerds don't know sports. But they do like systems and categorization, and so we put them in a list: 5. James Urbaniak

HENRY + GLENN = K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Top 10 Worst Musician-Endorsed Stocking Stuffers, Including 50 Cent Condoms, ODB Rap Snacks, and More

Top 10 Worst Stocking Stuffers Including 50 Cent Condoms, ODB Rap Snacks, and More

EXCLUSIVE: FYF's Sean Carlson On L.A. Scavenger Hunt's Fabulous Prizes, Fabulous Charity Donations

fyf's sean carlson and keith morris​ FYF Fest promoter Sean Carlson's L.A. Scavenger Hunt turns a bizarre list of items--like life-size cut-outs of Freddie Mercury--into charity goodness for downtown's Union Rescue Mission and the L.A. Food Bank almost every year. So if you're the guy wonderi ... More >>

Danzig in a Danzig Shirt, Buying Cat Supplies

Heavy metal and cats go way back to the birth of the Internet.​The Internet just rolled over and died. Cats, cult celebrity and narcissism all captured in one single itty bitty photograph? It's true. A picture really is worth 1000 words, especially when it's of a famously grumpy metal icon (a ... More >>

Music Picks: Goldfrapp, Concrete Blonde, Sally Seltmann, Black Francis

Also, Electric Daisy Carnival, the Adicts, Lou Barlow and others

A Heartwarming Coming of Age Story, Featuring Kraftwerk

​ Last week we told you about the "Henry Rollins/Glenn Danzig as a loving gay couple" minicomic. This week we found another little gem at Secret Headquarters: A Very Kraftwerk Summer. Premise: a young teen feels alienated in his crappy hometown until one magical summer when four red-and-bla ... More >>

Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig As a Loving Couple in Gay Fantasy Minicomic

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force's Dave Willis and Dana Snyder Hit the Road

For almost a decade, night owls have been tuning into Adult Swim, sometimes on a nightly basis, for the eleven-minute rush of absurdist humor that is Aqua Teen Hunger Force. After a feature film, video games and, more recently, a Christmas album, co-creator/writer Dave Willis (also the voice of Carl ... More >>

Tonight: Melissa Auf Der Maur at the Viper Room

​ [Preview by Mikael Wood] Think Melissa Auf der Maur is pissed at Courtney Love? Nearly six years after the release of her self-titled solo debut, Auf der Maur has finally completed work on its belated follow-up -- just in time to be overshadowed by Love's recently announced revamp of Hole, ... More >>

Music Picks: Soweto Gospel Choir, Paul McCartney, Melissa Auf der Maur

Also, Jay-Z, Metric, Triorganico, Air and others

Misfits at the Key Club: Danzig Who?

The Misfits show Saturday night, the first in a two-night sold out gig at the soon to be closed Key Club, left no room for wallowing in original lead singer Glenn Danzig's absence. Current singer and bassist Jerry Only grabbed the crowd by their sweaty nuts and tossed them about the pit like so many ... More >>

Timewarp: Where Old Instruments Go to Live Again

Back to the bylophone

Bookworm in a Tequila Bottle: 2007's Most Intriguing Music Books

Oh, those bed-wetting, penis-injecting, 43-person gangbang days of yore

Sweet, Horny, Hot and Wet

Totally Ozz-some

Six Appeal

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God of Pestilence

Behemoth comes to the Key Club

Metal Memoir

Can't Let It Go

Letters

Nether Bound

Danzig

Writer’s Block

Edited by Kateri Butler

Sugar 'n' Spikes

Fetus Don't Fail Me Now

Edited by Kateri Butler

Honesty is the Holiest Disease

My Ruin's prayer under pressure

The Goods

I listened to ’em, honest

Red Peony Gambler

The untarnished code of Chris D.

Letters

Lucifer Unchained

The hooks and books of Glenn Danzig

Hymn & Her

Modern devotional music, Virgin voices

Sledgehammers to the Streets

The zine scene