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How to Behave in Mosh Pits: Focus on the Music, Not Hurting People

Apparently the youth of today can sometimes be found in "pits" and within these pits it is agreed upon that they will "mosh," a word that covers a variety of bodily gyrations and movements. While in Britain obviously we call them "polite sections" where everyone vigorously shakes hands and nods...
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Picking a Bone With Pecan Lodge

Barbecued brisket is a finicky son of a bitch. Cook it too fast and you'll be left with a dry, rubbery hunk of beef the size of your grandmother's purse. Cook it too long and you can end up with a pile of loose, stringy meat. Smoke a perfect brisket...
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Megadeth Bassist Dave Ellefson on the Metal Aging Process

Megadeth: One of the most influential thrash metal bands to come out of the '80s. Megadeth are so metal that lead singer Dave Mustaine was kicked out of Metallica after he punched James Hetfield in the face (a hair-metal feud that's lasted three decades). Megadeth are so metal that after...
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Poll: What Food Thing Should We Celebrate in May?

OK, this national food holiday thing is officially out of control. The Internet tells us that May has 10 different National Food Month options for you to choose from, actually including: National Asparagus Month National Barbecue Month National Salad Month National Salsa Month National Strawberry Month National Mediterranean Diet Month...
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Last Shot: A Concert Photographer’s Battle With Cancer

Lindsey BestAndrew Youssef [Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV Colon Cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for our sister paper OC Weekly on top of other freelance work and working a...
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Son Volt at the Sons of Hermann Hall, 04/21: Review

Jay Farrar smiled. I'm not joking; he really did. In the middle of Son Volt's remarkably engaging performance Saturday night at the Sons of Hermann Hall, the notoriously impassive Farrar grinned like a kid getting his first kiss. And why shouldn't Farrar smile? Honky Tonk, the recent effort from Son...
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An Open Letter to Klyde Warren

Welcome to Alice Column, in which Alice Laussade writes stories about things on (roughly) the same day of (roughly) every week, making it (roughly) a column. Got an idea for a column? Start your own blog and write it up, you lazy shit. Dearest The Klyde Warren, It's my hope...
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It’s A Tribal Jesus Leprechaun

Drinking and inking usually results in one of two outcomes. One, you get tossed outta the tattoo parlor before you can even point at a flash and slur “That one” or two, you end up with a tramp stamp that will haunt you the rest of your days. As such,...
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The iPotty exists. Someone please invent the iStabMyEyesOut.

Potty training a toddler isn't fun. Trying to convince a toddler to crap into a toilet is like trying to convince a drunk person that whatever stupid shit he's currently doing is a bad idea. Conversations with both the toddler and the drunk will end with the same result: he...