by Jay Hathaway
“Sometimes being onstage is better than sex.”
– Brian Molko
Brian Molko, the always-engaging frontman of Placebo, has been around the world twice since SuicideGirls last checked in with him. Although Placebo has had a successful decade-long career in the UK and Europe, they’ve never managed a full-on conquest of America. This summer’s Projekt Revolution tour, headlined by Linkin Park, might be the Trojan Horse that finally gets them through the gate. Did Placebo take their new audience by surprise, or was it the other way around? I got a chance to talk to Brian as he was getting ready for one of the last shows of a year and a half of touring.
Read our exclusive interview with Brian Molko on SuicideGirls.com.
Patton Suicide in Tweet Tweet
- INTO: Art, broccoli, bats, body piercings, tattoos, Halloween, loud music, things that hurt, tight pants, loyalty, lunchboxes, dancing, quantum physics, workaholics, astral projection, needles, respect, monsters, insomniacs, wormholes, math equations, empathy, gore, mass murderers, machines, alternate dimensions, coupons, anatomy, Tetris, zombies, sharp objects, shiny things, comfy tees, short shorts.
- NOT INTO: Nonsense, egos, arrogance, hustlers, skanks, injuring myself while barefoot, grocery shopping, being cold, batteries dieing, alarms going off, spilling things, interruptions, pretentious attitudes, cops, doppelgangers.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Picture texts, phone calls, body warmth, cats, boobs, sweet tea, surprises, broccoli, holding hands, kisses on the forehead, getting tucked in, Ugg boots, bats, sketchbooks.
- MAKES ME SAD: Brooms, iPod running out of power, getting out of bed, burning my hair with my cigarettes, nosebleeds, laundry, icebergs, the ocean.
- HOBBIES: Reading, painting, singing songs to myself, causing general pandemonium, dancing, being naked.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Sunglasses, my cat, cigarettes, loud music.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Daydreaming, working non-stop, untangling my hair, pulling out eyelashes that stab me in the eye, pretending I’m a princess.
Get to know Patton better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Keith Daniels
“If you’re creating something you want to see it through to the end.”
– Glenn Mercer
New Jersey’s The Feelies formed in the late ‘70s around the core of guitarists Glenn Mercer and Bill Million. Between their seminal first record, 1980’s Crazy Rhythms, and 1991’s Time for a Witness, their post-punk, Velvet Underground and Jonathan Richman-inspired sound evolved from their twitchy, polyrhythmic debut to more atmospheric, complex guitar pop, leading critic Robert Christgau to say of the final record of their original run, “the minimalism of Crazy Rhythms was always misleading.”
Post-Feelies, Mercer worked on several other projects, including the band Wake Ooloo and a solo record. Million left music entirely and for nearly twenty years, reportedly, didn’t touch his guitar, leading previous attempts to reunite the band to stall without his involvement. Now, Million is back, and for the first time since 1991, The Feelies have a new record called Here Before. Despite its self-referential lyrical winks to their past, the new record would sound right in their discography next to The Good Earth or Only Life.
I spoke with Glenn Mercer recently about the new record, his relationship with Bill, and how one band becomes R.E.M. while another unfairly disappears into semi-obscurity.
Read our exclusive interview with Glenn Mercer on SuicideGirls.com.
Corgan Suicide in Purrrfect Love
- INTO: Animals, music, traveling, ocean, happy people, dancing.
- NOT INTO: Hunting, ignorance, egos.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: My doggie, lazy days, road trips.
- MAKES ME SAD: Sad people.
- HOBBIES: Promoting music, modeling, traveling.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My dog, my cat, lip gloss, my sanity, and pizza.
- VICES: Smoking!
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Seeing live music, and trying to find places with good music to dance to. I miss being a go-go dancer!
Get to know Corgan better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Erin Broadley
“Everything in life is fear based” –
– Nikki Sixx
Its December 25th 1986, and Nikki Sixx is alone in his mansion, crouched naked under his Christmas tree with a needle in his arm, scribbling in his diary about watching his holiday spirit coagulate in a spoon. He writes, ”Merry Christmas
its just you and me, diary. Welcome to my life.”
This is just one scene from a particularly harrowing chapter in Motley Crue bassist and founder Nikki Sixx’s new memoir The Heroin Diaries – a collection of riveting entries from his personal journals spanning one year from 1986 to 1987, a year he considers the height of his downward spiral into drug addiction. It’s a story about drugs, depression, and the train-wreck of self-destruction – but ultimately it’s one man’s story about survival told with unflinching and unapologetic honesty.
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Harajuku Suicide in To The Beat
- INTO: Silliness, having adventures, geeky indulgences, tattoos, fierce Japanese fashion, bright colors, kick ass music, loving life.
- NOT INTO: Incorrect spelling and grammar, hate.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: The night sky, my cat, manga and anime, sunshine, Yu Gi Oh: The Abridged Series, dry British humor, nature, hockey, Nostalgia Critic, Brian Drummond as Ryuk.
- MAKES ME SAD: Snow and cold, stupidity, ignorance.
- HOBBIES: Adventuring, crushing extreme.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Food, air, sun, my cat, music.
- VICES: Candy, caffeine, manga, makeup, things are that kawaii desu *v*.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Piercing the heavens with my drill.
Get to know Harajuku better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Shotgun Suicide
For nearly ten years, the citizens of America have been waiting to hear one short phrase: “Bin Laden is dead.” Americans have wanted this revenge since that awful September day that we’ll never forget. We may all have our differences, but one thing every American could agree on was that we needed to kill the man responsible for taking so many American lives that day.
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