RIP

  • R.I.P.: Labor In, Labor Out

    R.I.P.: Labor In, Labor Out

    Being reminded of your mortality on a constant basis makes your life so much better.

  • R.I.P.: Odd Habits

    R.I.P.: Odd Habits

    I would really like to see a coming back or recreation of funeral rites. Let’s create new ones. Let’s take this matter into our own hands.

  • Suicide’s Alan Vega Passes On

    Alan Vega of Suicide passed away this weekend, leaving us bereft of yet another irreplaceable figure in music. Henry Rollins announced the news on his website, sharing a statement from the Vega family mourning Vega’s loss: Alan’s life is a lesson of what it…

  • Prince, We Miss You

    This has been a difficult year for our musical heroes. The loss of Prince has the world mourning, once again, an artist whose work gave listeners the strength and permission to be as different, exceptional, and free as they wished.…

  • Saying Goodbye to Lemmy

    2015 ended with us mourning the passing of legendary Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister. Now that some days have passed, we want to celebrate Lemmy’s career and legend with a round-up of tributes that have come out over the past few…

  • R.I.P.: Facts

    R.I.P.: Facts

    I wanted to write about death to get closer to it, to face it clear-eyed. Now I had the opportunity.

  • R.I.P.: The Museum of Death

    R.I.P.: The Museum of Death

    What strikes me is not the necrophilia or the fetal pigs or the spoon designed for scooping out human brain matter, but rather the mundane.