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Is Hipster Metal for Assholes?new
Lately, like scores of other music critics, I've been getting into some "hipster-metal bands," so named because guys like us listen to them. Real metal dudes hate people like me. And that certainly includes D.X. Ferris, my co-worker and author of a new book about Slayer's Reign in Blood, which is apparently some sort of classic metal album.
Cleveland Scene |
Michael Gallucci and D.X. Ferris |
06-20-2008 |
Music
Cleveland Musicians Band Together to Fight Pay-to-Playnew
Cleveland rockers are uniting in Musicians' Local 00, an informal alliance of groups opposed to the pay-to-play practices that make most local shows an unpredictable, overcrowded clusterfuck.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
03-14-2008 |
Music
Danzig: A Pool of Elf's Bloodnew
With a new collection of rarities and outtakes, it's time to review Glenn Danzig's sinister contributions to modern culture.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
06-01-2007 |
Music
In-A-Gabba-Da-Vida, Babynew
A toddler and her pops road-test a new CD series of rock lullabies.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
05-25-2007 |
Music
Frosty Sleeps With the Fishesnew
Let's put those overplayed Christmas classics to bed and download brand-new ones.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
12-18-2006 |
Music
Ohio Musicians Celebrate the Weirdness of Devonew
Northeast Ohio has spawned its shared of iconic rock groups, but the world has still never seen or heard anything quite like Devo -- an art-rock group in a bar-band area that used primitive synthesizers and electronic drums of its own design to perform irradiated new wave and mutated rock covers.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
08-23-2005 |
Music
The All-Time Greatest White-Boy Rhymesnew
White rappers are the new black quarterbacks, with pundits still arguing whether they could have the skills and smarts to seriously compete in a game invented by black players. Here's the evidence they can.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
03-09-2005 |
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