Ian Christe
Ian Christe is the author of Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal available internationally in thirteen languages, and Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga. He is also the publisher of Bazillion Points Books, home to Swedish Death Metal by Daniel Ekeroth, Hellbent for Cooking by Annick Giroux, Sheriff McCoyby Andy McCoy, Dirty Deeds by Mark Evans, Touch and Go by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson, and Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie DVD.
19 articles
List of articles in the library
Interview by Ian Christe, Warp, 1994
MICROPHONE CONNOISSEUR and billiardsman Steve Albini has recorded albums for the Pixies, Nirvana, the Jesus Lizard, and PJ Harvey. He doesn’t know when to keep ...
Beat Happening: Black Candy (Sub Pop)
Review by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, April 1993
THIS 1989 RELEASE more than adequately summarizes the appeal of this maudlin trio of Treeville, Washington, based anti-rockers. Captured at a time when the ...
The Boredoms: Yip-Yip-Yip-Yip-Yip-Yip-Yip-Yip-YEEEOOOOWWW!!! for the Boredoms
Report and Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, March 1993
ITS THE FRESHEST sound around, if you ever get the chance to hear it. The Boredoms play the space jazz rap music of the ...
Boss Hog: Manhattan Miscreants In Heat: Boss Hog
Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, Spring 1990
WELL, I NEVER expected to see a photographic representation of the "Playboy Party Jokes" vixen on a rock album cover either, but it comes as ...
Darkthrone: Black Metal: Not Dead Yet
Comment by Ian Christe, Arthur, May 2005
Catching up with Scandinavia's black metalists. ...
Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips: Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
Review and Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, 1994
WHEN THE FLAMING Lips look out at the world from Oklahoma, it must seem hurried and strange. They don't let it affect them. Transmissions ...
Napalm Death: Noise International: It’s Napalm Death for World Music
Report and Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, August 1994
THE LANGUAGE OF death metal can be as undecipherable to outsiders as street grafitti, but the meaning is as clear: "Stay away – I ...
Nirvana: Incesticide (Geffen Records)
Review by Ian Christe, Warp, June 1993
ORIGINALLY INTENDED for release by their former label under the name Cash Cow, this collection of fifteen tight and tuneful Nirvana rarities has one of ...
Onyx, Run-DMC: Run DMC/Onyx/Boss: Palladium, NYC
Live Review by Ian Christe, Your Flesh, Summer 1993
PASS TWO METAL detectors and a sixteen-point patdown, then descend three stories of padded stairs into a vast ancient theatre outfitted with video gear. ...
Review by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, August 1993
ROYAL TRUX is as much a rockn roll fairy tale as a musical ethos, a terribly incomplete story without the first chapter. This inspirational ...
Royal Trux: Very Sad Trouser Twins: Royal Trux
Profile and Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, June 1993
NEIL HAGERTY AND Jennifer Herrema are a tightly-tied 20th century Hansel and Gretel that the candy path led too far into the dark forest. Parts ...
Report and Interview by Ian Christe, Metal Maniacs, February 1995
"NOBODY'S REALLY interested in Scorn in England," admits animated Mick Harris, the band's drum programmer. "We get great reviews, but there's not any attention for ...
Smog in a Wild Kingdom of Burning Love
Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, 1995
BILL CALLAHAN has spent so much time alone that almost all he can do is be true to himself. He is absolute Bill, and people ...
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Extra Wide (Matador)
Review by Ian Christe, Warp, November 1993
JON SPENCER'S grunge-blues attitude army swims in the stewed funky swankness of young Elvis, classic Cramps, new Beastie Boys, and any band with a regular ...
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Don’t Shoot the Optigan Player: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, March 1995
LAUGHTER COMES for some reason, spilling out to surprise you while watching the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. They are the original unpredictable multi-dimensional ...
Review by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, July 1993
THIS WELL-TEXTURED export from the British outback contains comfortably-paced soothe rock dominated by strange choral organ riffs. Two of the four songs feature slightly ...
Review by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, September 1993
JUST WHAT THESE overambitious bastards are attempting this time is anybodys guess. Having severed their ties with practically everyone in the Chicago underground who ...
Review by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, November 1993
INSIDE AN artful cardboard CD holder, liner notes for Collusion explain that Zoviet France refused to participate in compilations for many years for two reasons: ...
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Dead Norwegians, Israeli Disco and Satan's Penis: The Pulp Reality of the Metal Underground
Overview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, 1995
"SOME IMAGINE for some weird reason that Death Metal is something normal and available for everyone," Morbid/Mayhem vocalist "Dead" told an interviewer prior to his ...
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