Jan. 6 Rioter Jay Johnston Played a KKK Member in Failed Fox Sketch Show From 2002

Posted in Comedy, News with tags , , , on 10/30/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

The media is extensively covering sketch-comedy and voice actor Jay Johnston’s recent sentencing to a year in prison due to his unapologetic participation in the January 6 insurrection. But, as usual, news outlets aren’t doing enough research when reporting on the shocking news about the Mr. Show and Bob’s Burgers alum.

Check out this eerie clip from the first episode of Bob Odenkirk’s Next!, a riotous but failed 2002 sketch-comedy pilot for Fox, in which Johnston played a KKK member in one of its segments.

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Spooky Mansion Share ‘Love’ for Boise With Special Gig Tonight

Posted in Interviews with tags , on 10/30/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

It may only be Halloween eve, but Boise’s 9th St Parallel at Knitting Factory is getting the haunting festivities started early tonight with a performance by lively surf-rock/Americana troupe Spooky Mansion. The Treefort Music Fest vets had a blast playing here a few years ago and are psyched to be back, frontman/guitarist Grayson Converse recently told The Bad Penny.

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St. Lenox Has Lotsa Love To Give With New LP, 3 Adorable Pets

Posted in Interviews with tags on 10/29/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Andrew Choi a.k.a. St. Lenox chatted with us about his three pets with his husband: Maks, Yorkshire Terrier who is blind and deaf; Dorothy, a tuxedo house cat; and Lucy, a black house cat. Peruse this recent New Noise interview to learn more about the musician and the adoring pets he owns with his husband.

Pet Sounds #9: St. Lenox Has Lotsa Love To Give With New LP, 3 Adorable Pets

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Faith No More Is/Was an ’80s Band? Huh?

Posted in Essays with tags on 10/29/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Writing about music is often an intimidating proposition. And we all make mistakes (probably no one more than yours truly). But are we at the point where even a quick Wikipedia search is asking too much?

Faith No More is — or was, depending on whether they reunite again — not an ” ’80s band,” despite the egregiously sloppy headline to this post. To wit …

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Vocalist for Mysterious Band Gaerea Wake Us Up With ‘Coma’

Posted in Interviews on 10/29/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Read this new interview in which vocalist for Portugal’s Gaerea explains to New Noise how the mysterious band is transcending the stifling  “black metal” tag and expanding its sound by incorporating even more unorthodox sounds.

Interview: Gaerea on ‘Breaking Away’ from the ‘Black-Metal Scene’

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Glass Noose Can’t Contain Themselves With Their Pets

Posted in Features, Interviews, Pet Sounds with tags on 10/28/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

This curveball in our ongoing Pet Sounds series is brought to us and you by Glass Noose, an avant-garde/emo project whose leader is Pittsburgh musician Tristan Zemtseff. His coterie of pets is so wild … well, you gotta read this New Noise post to believe it.

Pet Sounds #8: Glass Noose Frontman Smells Two Rats—His Pets!

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Buñuel Break Down Their Tough Yet Rewarding New LP ‘Mansuetude’

Posted in Interviews with tags , on 10/28/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

See what legendary artist Eugene S. Robinson had to tell FLOOD about the latest record from his experimental, genre-bashing project Buñuel.

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Gwar’s Grodius: ‘I’m Going to, for Sure, Murder You’

Posted in Interviews with tags , on 10/28/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

The lead guitarist of everyone’s least favorite band, Gwar, bemoans their “worst interview ever” in this forgettably filthy interview with New Noise. The pleasure was all ours.

Interview: Gwar’s Grodius: ‘I’m Going to, for Sure, Murder You … Worst Interview Ever’

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Iotunn Guitarist Brings Us Along for Journey on New LP, ‘Kinship’

Posted in Interviews with tags on 10/25/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Iotunn founder/composer/guitarist Jesper Gräs touched base with New Noise last month to answer some of our most pressing questions about the band and its virtuous, magnificent opus Kinship.

Interview: Iotunn Guitarist Brings Us Along for Journey on New LP, ‘Kinship’

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Kate Nash Touching Down in Boise on Saturday After ‘Breaking Into Theme Parks’

Posted in Interviews with tags , on 10/25/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

It’s time to roll out the red carpet, Boise: Special attraction Kate Nash, an English singer/songwriter who delivered her latest album over the summer on trailblazing indie record label Kill Rock Stars, makes her debut at Neurolux on Saturday night.

“I’m excited to be touring North America for the first time in six years,” Nash told The Bad Penny earlier this month. “I just signed with an American label and new agents here, so we wanted to try to cover some more ground and get to a new city that I haven’t toured in before!”

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