All Aboard the Nonsense Express
Issue #137: No Rhyme or Reason
Another Monday readers. How are you all doing today?
As I’m sitting down writing this on Monday, the current temperature is 33°.
33°! In April! Baseball season has started and we are in the middle of a freeze warning! What the hell is that all about?!? I know you can’t control mother nature but c’mon! Her too?!? People in this country are scared for their lives. The price of eggs are outrageous. The overall economy is in the toilet. And now the weather sucks too. We are living in strange, strange times folks. Hold your loved ones close and enjoy every day of your life and strap in. Anyway, enough of that dismal crap. On to the nonsense…
NEW RELEASES:
This week was a pretty decent week for new releases. Here are some good ones:
One of my favorite bands, Chicago’s Smoking Popes released their new album Lovely Stuff.
Southern California punk band Scowl put out Are We All Angels on Dead Oceans.
Thousand Island Records released Fishbowl’d by Montreal based melodic punk band Dutch Nuggets.
Death Hilarious, the new album from UK metal band Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs was released by Missing Piece Records.
A self-titled album from LA rock band 20th Century Boys was released by Rum Bar Records.
Kinda Rips, an album from Orlando, Florida skate punk band Debt Neglector was released by Smartpunk Records.
Boston based ska band The Kilograms put out Beliefs & Thieves on Rad Girlfriend Records.
MARCH FAVORITES:
These are the album releases from last month that I enjoyed the most.
The Roxies - Keep You Up At Night
Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy
Roach Squad - Roach Squad
Throwing Muses - Moonlight Concessions
Dead Bars - All Dead Bars Go To Heaven
Niis - niis world
THE PULL LIST:
Batgirl #6
Absolute Green Lantern #1
Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell #1
Absolute Superman #6
THE OTHER READS:
Batman: Haunted Knight by Jeph Loeb
Batman: Beyond the White Knight by Sean Murphy
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by Gerard Way
Superguy by Anthony Iannaccio
Saturday afternoon, I went to the theater and saw A Minecraft Movie. It was silly and fun. I recommend you go check it out.
Also, I never got around to watching the MCU TV show Agatha All Along when it came out so I started watching that last night (Sunday). I got pretty far into it. I only have 2 episodes left to watch.
On Rebel Nerd Radio, we wrapped up our Back to the Future series with a discussion about the 3rd and final film in the trilogy. We explored its success at the box office, its cast, some key moments, and they dug hypothetical about whether or not we would use a time machine if it were a reality.
We also released a new episode of The Batcave to the YouTube viewers. On this one Blue and I discussed the 2010 animated Batman film, Under the Red Hood.
Yesterday (Sunday), I joined Spencer on The Comic Den. We talked with the creators of the Kickstart comic Superguy.
The guys from Punk Lotto Pod dropped a new episode last week. They covered the 1979 Stiff Little Fingers album Inflammable Material.
This week’s track of the week comes from one of the aforementioned albums on the new release list. It’s a song from the Smoking Popes album Lovely Stuff.
This week I’m spotlighting Dead Scenester, a newsletter about growing up in the punk subculture world.
That’s it for this week kids. See you again next time.