Posts Tagged ‘salem’

August 25th, 2009 - 11:37 pm § in Bands

The Secret History of the Funhouse Strippers

As has so often been the case, the members of the Funhouse Stripper found each other through the course of a tragedy. That event took place four years ago at a resort near Cancun, Mexico. Known internally as the Yucatan Outbreak, a small amount of the Lipscomb-Takashi virus was released into the loc[...]

July 8th, 2009 - 12:31 am § in Bands

The Secret History of the Black Black Black

Inasmuch as all three members of the Black Black Black are also members of Typhoon, much of their harrowing origin has already been recorded elsewhere. That account speaks to a horrific ordeal that would be more than enough drama for any single lifetime. For Dave, Kyle and Devin, however, that journ[...]

July 7th, 2009 - 10:40 pm § in Bands

The Secret History of Typhoon

The members of Typhoon are the improbable result of a forced breeding program instituted by an elite cabal of music snobs within the Soviet regime during the waning years of the Cold War. Intended to address a perceived progressive rock gap, the project’s original goal was to produce an endless st[...]

July 7th, 2009 - 9:36 pm § in Bands

The Secret History of the Widgets

It was through serendipity that the four original members of the Widgets met late one fall night in 1997 outside a 24 hour convenience store. The previous day the NRA had visited the local high school they all attended as part of a nationwide campaign to raise youth awareness of Second Amendment rig[...]