The Gutter Twins (Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan)
February 11, 2009
The Independent
Better Than:
Joaquin Phoenix' new rap career
The
audience: Reg'lar folks, mostly
dressed in shades of the bruise palette. Two parkas, one with a fur-lined hood.
Three trilbies. Smatterings of plaid. One army coat tricked out like Coldplay's
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Wankers Club
Band uniforms.
The show: I bought earplugs from the coat check girl just as a
skinny guy in a knit cap walked onstage and began playin
They are unschooled, undisciplined, and often unpopular, but it’s outsider artists like the convict who drew this who can sometimes shape mainstream culture
1. Alice Cooper - "Welcome To My Nightmare"You can't have Halloween without Alice Cooper.
From his decapitation-happy live shows to his self-mocking sense of
humor, he's rock's king demon. (Sorry, Marilyn--we know how hard you
try.) But was Cooper ever better than when accompanied by the Muppets?
2. Cannibal Corpse - "Death Walking Terror"Cannibal Corpse sometimes
takes its gore-besotted schtick so far over the top that it becomes
comical. We suspect that's why Jim Carrey put the band in the
For all of America's pretty pop idols, we also have a healthy appreciation for singers who make us really uncomfortable. Who give us the creeps, if you will. As a special Halloween treat, here are the top ten performers who give us that special form of skeeves:1. Corey Taylor bill from jersey city​The Slipknot frontman is also known as #8. Is that the number of victims he's claimed? His utterly freaky masks, evoking serial killers, would seem to suggest as much.2. Gene SimmonsFrehleyKISS​The
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