The Bad Penny (beta)

Note: Some of these links, like human lives, are broken.

Brushes With Greatness
• Expo’s John Lane With Muhammad Ali, Dr. Ruth, Allen Ginsberg, more

Cover Me
• Mark Bacino
• Cassorla
• Cougar
• Dearling Physique
• French Miami
• Paper Tongues
• Research Society

The Creature
• Volume 6, Issue 2: Rainer Maria, A Minor Forest, Scared Of Chaka (published at Grinnell College, fall 1998)

Day Job
• Cougar

Doppelgängers
• Axl Rose and GW Bush
• ‘It Follows,’ ‘Hereditary’ and ‘In the Mouth of Madness’
• Mastodon’s Brent Hinds and actor J.C. Quinn
• Brad Penny and Barney Gumble
• Louis CK’s and David Cross’ Nearly Identical Jokes on Male Rollerbladers
• David Cronenberg’s ‘Scanners’ and Brian De Palma’s ‘The Fury’
• Mastodon and Metallica
• Dave Grohl and Reggie Watts

Essays
• Country Music That Doesn’t Blow – Sweet Tea, Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band
• Did David Yow Tell His Version of ‘The Aristocrats’ on The Jesus Lizard’s ‘Lady Shoes’?
• 5 Reminders About Punk Rock’s Core Principles
• Unto Others and the Best Stephen King Rock Song Ever•
• 2024 in Review: The Year of Global Grief, and Why We All Needed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ ‘Wild God’ to Cope With It
• A Love Letter to Artificial Intelligence, A.K.A. AI
• Faith No More Is/Was an ’80s Band? Huh?
• The Ghost Of Robert Palmer Can Reunite Our Divided Nation
• My Friend Neamah And The State Of Our Country
• Boise’s Music Scene Just Can’t Get It Together
• Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’: The Heart-Shaped Album That Married Mainstream and Indie Rock
• Bad Penny of the Year: Nicolas Cage
• Outrage Over Bill Burr’s Abortion Bit Is a Joke
• Isis’ Oceanic: Mystery Revealed?
• Nirvana’s In Utero: Un Vínculo Progresivo Entre Los Mundos Del Rock Mainstream Y Rock Independiente
• Michael Jackson And Kurt Cobain, Suicide Kings?
• Are the Pixies Milking It With Their Multitudinous Video Releases?
• Top 20 Reasons Why Monterey Pop Was Better Than Today’s Music Festivals
• Donald Trump Is More Insane Than the Craziest Musicians Ever, From Elvis to Kanye
• Damn You, Ozzy Osbourne, for Preventing Us From Fully Mourning At the Gates Frontman Tomas Lindberg When He Too Died
• Jawbox Letter Proves They Were the Truest ‘Sweethearts’ of ’90s Indie Rock
• Trivium’s Lyrics Don’t Make Any Sense
• Have Trivium Abandoned Their Support for Social Justice?
• Mike Patton Jumps the Shark Dick Clark With AVVT/PTTN’s WTF? CBS Saturday Morning Set
• Megadeth Charging $950 a Pop for Listening Party as Part of ‘Retirement’ Scam; Will Trump Award Dave Mustaine a Medal of Freedom?

Exclusives
• Song Premiere: Blood of the Wolf’s ‘Oath of Supremacy’
• Bloody Good, Mates! 3 Inches of Blood Exclusively Confirm New Material
• Blue Skies for Black Hearts’ ‘Dirty Water’ cover download
• Cassorla song premiere (download)
• Cloak Part Ways With Season of Mist; New Label Deal Imminent
• Cocaine Culture’s ‘Cocaine Culture’
• Covert Stations’ Latest Reworking: Roxette’s ‘It Must Have Been Love’
• Desertshore exclusive MP3 download
• Dirty Three Drummer Jim White Reflects on Teaming With Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Joan Jett, and More
• Dream Phases Rouse Psych-Rock Lovers With Special New 7-Inch
• Ex-Amon Amarth Drummer Pays Tribute to At the Gates’ Tomas Lindberg With a Riotous Recollection
• Expo exclusive MP3 download
• False Gods — Meet Metal’s Newest True Believers
• Four Star Riot’s ‘Adding It Up’: Video and Song Premiere
• Song Premiere: Ghoulhouse’s ‘Rotten Rancid Remains’
• Human Potential’s ‘Hoosi, No!’: Video and Song Premiere
• In Flames Frontman Says Side Project’s New LP Is ‘Pretty Much Finished’
• Jesus Lizard Interview and Exclusive News: The Naked Truth, Pt. 1
• Video Premiere: Linda From Work’s ‘Blood in the Water’
• Courtney Love Freaked Out Over Supposed Child Abductions at US Airports, Ex Reveals
• Mawiza Reveal Origin of Eco-Themed Collabo With Gojira Frontman|
• Miracle Blood Are in for a Bloody Good Time With Epic Tour
• Exclusive Video Premiere: Moonpool’s ‘Like You Do,’ ‘Aim’
• Moonspell Vocalist Salutes Departed Tomas Lindberg of At the Gates, Says They Shared ‘Wild Nights’ Together
• Mystic Circle Just Dropped New LP – and Have Demos Done, Producer Set for Next One
• Necrofier Eying Summer 2025 for Next LP Release
• The New Loud’s favorite David Lynch films
• Nick Oliveri Reminisces About QOTSA, Kyuss Amid Reunion Rumors
• Pamplemousse Gifts Us With First-Ever Interview as ‘Porcelain’ Keeps Poppin’
• Graham Parker, Other Big Stir Halloween Comp Contributors Tell Terrifying Tales
• Pelican Details Each Track on Guest-Filled ‘What We All Come to Need’
• Premiere: of persephone’s ‘Rainbow Road’
• Pinx’s ‘Say When’
• Research Society MP3 download (with Cover Me feature)
• Danny Ross MP3s for download (with interview)
• Song Premiere: Sangre de Muérdago’s ‘O Abismo’
• SUMAC and Moor Mother Plotting Second Collaborative LP
• Track Premiere: Supergloom’s ‘Kingfisher’
• Trashy Annie Comments on 2 Killer Songs Ahead of New LP Release
• Song Premiere: Trauma Kit’s ‘Better’
• TV Buddhas’ third tour vlog premiere
• Album Premiere: Wipes’ ‘Wipes’

Favorite Films

• Dying Remains’ Frontman Treasures ‘The Thing,’ ‘Suspiria,’ ‘City of the Living Dead,’ ‘Wounded Fawn’
• Heavy Heavy Low Low Vocalist Lists His Favorite Flicks as Halloween Creeps Closer
• Napalm Death’s Shane Embury Picks ‘2001,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘Forbidden Planet’
• Point Break 2 Frontman Cops to His Guilty-Pleasure Movies: ‘Mortal Kombat,’ ‘Terror,’ ‘Elvis,’ More

Fun and Games
• Anagrams: Touch and Go bands
• Anti-death-penalty hangman
• Crossword puzzle: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
• Death-metal word search
• Guess the album cover #1
• Extreme-metal word search
• Labyrinth: The History of the Jesus Lizard
• Labyrinth: The History of Nirvana
• Mike Patton word search
• Video Interview: Watch 37 Houses’ Husband and Wife Play Ad Hoc ‘Newlywed Game’

Great Debate
• TV Buddhas on supermarket lunches vs. eating out

Guilty Pleasures
• Dez Dare Digs Grand Funk Railroad, More
• Humanfly on Prince, Blur, Ice Cube, more
• Young Marble Giants’ Stuart Moxham on sex, procrastination – and fish and chips

Inside The Label
• Ipecac Recordings
• Queer Control Records
• Prosthetic Records
• Sentient Ruin Laboratories

Lists
• As No Kings Rallies Near, Here Are Music’s Top 20 ‘Kings,’ From B.B. to Gizzard
• Nirvana’s 10 Best Videos, Ranked
• Top 20 Touch and Go Bands of All Time
• Bad Penny Exclusive: The New Loud Pick Their Favorite David Lynch Films
• 15 Best QOTSA Parody Ideas for ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic to Create
• Death-Metal-Parody Proposals For ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
• Stone Temple Pilots: Top 10 Reasons Why They Suck Even More Now Than They Did Before
• The Jesus Lizard’s 103 Songs, Ranked From the G.O.A.T. to the … Just Don’t
• Best New Music Videos (August 2025): Packaging, Spaceface, Runnner, Cosmic Reaper, Oruã
• Tool’s 68 Songs, Ranked From ‘Invincible’ to ‘Disgustipated’
• Best New Music Videos (July 2025): Spinal Tap, Deftones, Ozzy Osbourne Tribute, Kayo Dot
• Hollywood Vampires’ 17 Songs, Ranked
• Bad Penny Bests: Top 10 Best (And Worst) Meats
• Bad Penny Bests: Top 10 Best (And Worst) Clubs
• Pyramid Mass Reveal Influences Behind Their Sick New EP
• David Lynch Tribute: 10 Unforgettable Moments From His Films
• Best Albums of 2024: Gaerea, Shellac, Chat Pile, Kim Deal
• Gaerea, Oranssi Pazuzu, Alcest, Knocked Loose: Best Heavy Albums of 2024
• FLOOD’s Best Albums of 2024 and My Two Cents
• Happy Halloween: The Bad Penny’s Top 10 Favorite Masked Bands
• Best Albums of 2023: Cloak, Insomnium, Horrendous, Jeromes Dream
• Best Movies of 2022: ‘Stranger,’ ‘Tár,’ ‘Emily the Criminal,’ ‘Hellbender’
• Best Albums of 2022: Amorphis, All the Fury, Halo Effect, Cave In, Khold

Meet And Greet
• Cassettes Won’t Listen
• Cougar
• Double Dagger
• Los Campesinos!
• Danny Ross
• Imaad Wasif

Mementos
• Jawbox Letter Proves They Were the Truest ‘Sweethearts’ of ’90s Indie Rock
• Winterlings’ autumn harvest
• Research Society’s “2001” obsession, Lego’d
• Wanda Jackson’s personalized card – and a matchbook too
• Branden Daniel’s Amazing Technisound Dream Vest
• Salme Dahlstrom’s coffee-centric contribution
• The Moog’s hairspray
• The Bad Penny’s button collection

My City Rules
• Exray’s on San Francisco

On Tyranny Index

Pet Sounds Index

Rebuses
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #1
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #2
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #3
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #4
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #5
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #6
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #7
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #8
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #9
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #10
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #11
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebus #12

Recipes
• Neil Hamburger Soup

Revising History
• Mike Watt on John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, more
• Kathryn Williams on Nick Drake’s Bryter Layter, Björk’s Homogenic, more
• Wooden Wand on Guided by Voices, Black Flag, Rolling Stones, more

The Visionaries
• Jute Gyte
• Sadness
• Aaron Turner

What You Readin’ For?
• Campfire OK On ‘A Brief History Of Time,’ ‘Illustrated Man’
• Climber On ‘Moby Dick’
• Crossword Puzzle: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
• 3 Inches Of Blood’s Cam Pipes Geeks Out On Tolkien, ‘Dungeons & Dragons’
• Isis’ Oceanic: Mystery Revealed?
• David Grubbs: Wingdale Community Singers Will Be ‘Busy For Years To Come’
• ‘Burning’ Questions For Brian Peterson: A Conversation About Hardcore Punk And Beyond
• Rick Moody Vs. The Bad Penny
• David Cross’ ‘I Drink For A Reason’: Loaded With Laughs – And Typos
• ‘You’re Telling My Kids They Can’t Read This Book?’ Author Andrew Laties Rails Against Book Bans
• Zaq Baker Finds Self-Worth Amid Mental Health Struggles, Writing First Novel
• Top 10 Songs With the Same Titles as Great Novels
• Bob Odenkirk’s New Memoir: 20 Key Takeaways
• The Bad Penny’s Top 10 Music Books of 2025

Wordle’d
• At The Gates, In Flames and Dark Tranquillity albums