Guitarist/noisemaker/gentleman Chris Grier–who has performed with Kohoutek, To Live & Shave in LA, and Scarcity of Tanks–recently assembled a digital mixtape for Sockets Records. It's the third in the Fringe Era series, which has also featured contributions by Occupational Athlete (aka Patrick Connolly) and Washington City Paper beer guru Orr Shtuhl. Greir has provided some [...]

The Stooges' guitarist Ron Asheton, who was found dead of a heart attack on Tuesday, has already been thoroughly eulogized in various other publications, so I felt a little bit intimidated about posting my own feelings up here. Really, how many times can you write words like "legendary" before they begin to sound relatively meaningless? [...]