Blazing Minds (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
A call to arms and the “Who’s the Band” series is back and this week I bring you an interview with Lethality Scale, so I’m going to stop rambling on and get on with the interview.. Q: So how did you come upon the name of your band? Is it the first name you chose? A: We [...] Who’s the Band – Lethality Scale is a post from Blazing Minds - This, that and a little bit...
Miami New Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
You could make the argument that Canadian anarcho-industrial-rock pioneer Skinny Puppy has been at its most artistically potent (and successful) over the past 27-plus years when there's a right-wing boogeyman at the helm of the free world to rail against. The group — long led by frontman Ni...
Westword | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Skinny Puppy started in 1982 as a side project of cEvin Key's old band, Images in Vogue. With Puppy becoming a full-time concern in 1986, Key and collaborators Nivek Ogre, Dwayne Goettel and Dave Ogilvie spent the next several years putting out seven landmark releases, including Rabies and...
Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
*Oct 23 4004 BC According to calculations by 17th century biblical theologian James Ussher, God creates the heavens and the Earth. Oct 23 1976...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt are no strangers to Colorado. Lovett and his Large Band are practically regulars at Red Rocks, but this summer the roots/AAA favorite is bringing his buddy Hiatt along for the ride — and playing smaller venues. Lovett and Hiatt will play intimate, acoustic shows together at the Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs on Oct. 7, Macky Auditorium in Boulder on Oct. 8 and...
FEARnet: News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Aside from a mysterious post a couple weeks ago from the legendary experimental electro duo Skinny Puppy – who aren't known for maintaining much of an online presence – all we know...
Baggage Reclaim (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
My very good friend Mark Spybey has just sent me this press release - it concerns some recordings we made a good few years ago, which are finally seeing the light of day. Sanderson / Spybey THE SETLAND L.P. Richard Sanderson is a musician, radio presenter and music promoter. He is also an old friend and long-time collaborator of Mark Spybey. Originally from Middlesbrough, he began his career in the...
Aversion Music (Free subscription) | 04/15/2009
1984: Ronald Reagan wins a second term, Los Angeles hosts the Olympics and Skinny Puppy's first EP arrives in stores.
here there be rodents (Free subscription) | 01/27/2009
In this installment of “Ask a…” we’re going to talk to a game producer and play my imitation jukebox obscura, where the most dangerous game of all is Ger-man. I uploaded five tracks and changed the file names, but completely screwed up by not removing the tags. Mr. Producer was a good sport about it. [The Tear [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Skinny Puppy frontman Nivek Ogre is using the newer name "ohGr" for his new project but he didn't come up with any new sonic dimensions for "Devils in My Details."
documents (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
I've always regarded Canadian Industrial band Skinny Puppy 's 1992 album 'Last Rights' as a failure - a bloated album. If the band's 1990 album 'Too Dark Park' already teetered on the edge of the swollen, the 1992 album certainly was overdone. Nivek Ogre's vocals had devolved from anguish into kitsch sentimentality; the music was " ... a scribble effacing all lines, a scramble effacing all sounds...
Miami New Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
During the Eighties as half of Skinny Puppy, Nivek Ogre (or just Ogre, or Kevin Ogilvie) created a much-imitated, arresting blend of industrial and hard rock, belched forth amid bewildering onstage theatrics. A showman from the beginning, Ogre quickly used his theater of the horrifically absurd a...
The Punk Vault (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Ohgr - Devils In My Details CD SPV Records Skinny Puppy has been my favorite band on Earth for the past 20 years. I can’t get enough of them and to me there will never be a better band ever in my lifetime. On top of being in the greatest band to walk the globe, the [...]
here there be rodents (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Continuing our theme of the Heroin Olympics , next up we have two essential Download releases. The Eyes of Stanley Pain - along with The Process - is the last real taste of Dwayne Goettel’s work before he died of an overdose in his parents’ bathroom; the sound pallette is heavily techno, but the construction is [...]
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Paris Hilton meets Sweeney Todd in this horror-musical. Train wreck? Surprisingly, no.
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