“Where’s he going with that magazine?”

In our ongoing occasional series of auto-themed music videos, it’s become apparent that Mal Fuller and I have widely varied musical tastes. He, for instance, will probably dig Bill Joel’s “Uptown Girl,” above. Meanwhile, I agree with the boys and prefer something more along the lines of Clutch’s “A Shogun Named Marcus,” below, featuring a […]

“Larger than life with a million lies”

Growing up in Central Ohio in the mid-1990s, I followed the local music scene fairly closely, and while I never actually went to a Blatant Finger show, I’d always see them listed in the upcoming shows section of The Other Paper. Didn’t happen to think about the Newark-based band again until just recently, when I […]

At least they didn’t wreck the Trans Am

So these PR people from Warner Brothers were pretty insistent about sharing this music video from My Chemical Romance’s latest album with us because it has a 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am in it. I can’t stand the band, the song, or the video, but I figure Mal Fuller can’t stand it either, and I […]