#157 - Static-X
Static
#157 – March 2010
STATIC-X
Is this the new face of industrial rock, or is it merely the emperor‘s new hair? A.P. follows America‘s premier electro-rock band to the Las Vegas desert to learn how Wayne Static and his team nearly broke their Machine down.
GET RAW!
A.P.‘s Extreme Sports special featuring athletes, games, gear and more stuff designed to turn your summer upside down and leave it there.
DAVE NAVARRO
The former Jane‘s Addiction guitarist drops his first solo album, his misanthropy and his pants, all in the pages of A.P.
THIS IS NOT YOUR PARENTS‘ NEW WAVE
Can‘t identify with all that oh-so-angry tough-guy rock? The new albums from Depeche Mode, the Cult and Echo And The Bunnymen reflect artistry, not nostalgia. A.P. salutes these bands who push ahead, and not back on their laurels. We also run down those bands looking for nostalgia bucks.
PLACEBO
Take your place at the bar and see how Britain‘s treble-rock trio learned when to say when.
SECTIONS
INCOMING LETTERS
NEW RELEASES LSITING
WIRETAPPING
Bad Religion welcome back Mr. Brett; Stone Temple Pilot Scott Weiland does the La-Di-frickin‘-Da; copy-proof compact discs loom over the post-Napster horizon; Insane Clown Posse and friends welcome the next Juggalo Gathering; Lit make a new record and a new martini; plus news, gossip, libel and a probing analytical discourse on the cover versions we‘d really like to see.
SCREENINGS
Close-Up puts the focus on Timothy Olyphant, who lives out every adolescent boy‘s dream in Rock Star; plus, we check in with the man behind Hedwig And The Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell.
LOW PROFILE
Britney Spears gets shallow with Drowning Pool, while we lift the curtain on the Beta Band, Herbert and Alkaline Trio, and the Lowdown fills you in on where to get your new musical kicks.
BOOTY!
Go to the poorhouse in style with A.P.‘s monthly rundown of the coolest stuff you‘ve gotta have.
REVIEWS
Reviews this issue of new releases by Pennywise, Puya, Perry Farrell, Hi-Tek, Tricky, Oval, Hot Water Music, Spirit Caravan, KRS-One and many more; Self-Analysis gets an earful from Make-Up‘s pseudonymous ex-leader David Candy and drill & bass maverick Squarepusher; Origins Of Cool visits Creation Records cult band the House Of Love.
A.P. RECOMMENDS
SNAG THE SWAG!
Win some stuff, get bored with it, schlep it up on eBay three months from now….
10 ESSENTIAL ‘80S ALBUMS
A.P.‘s editors make their choices for the best the Reagan years had to offer.
