The infamous, despised, stalked, adored, banned, naked, cacophonous Din Glorious have sang their last song. or have they? Allegedly their last show ever, these art-fucked punk electron monsters will be at the Mutant Transmissions Festival II April 3,4,5. To make their departure that more bitter and contested they have also just released a brand new song, its a mash up actually: Din Glorious VS Neros Day at Disneyland. Will the break up be the final nail on the Din grave? Honestly we don’t know but missing their last show at MT@ would be an unforgivable offense against art and, lets be honest, your own better judgment. So see you there. Dress to impress and undress.

Ether  this is an elaborate hoax or a really damn tragic day for rock n roll. Various blogs and websites reporting today that Lux Interior, aka Erick Lee Purkhiser (62) of the legendary The Cramps passed away due to an existing heart condition at 4:30am  in Glendale, CA hospital, more colorfully earlier in the day Lux Wiki reported cause of death to be auto erotic asphyxiation (now changed). Most places site a press release from Girlie Action, The Cramps’ media representatives as a source for this information. Girlie Action and The Cramps official website contain no information about this what so ever and could not be reached for comment, so until we know better we chose to hope, to believe that this is just a publicity stunt, or a prank of some sort. How can Lux so full of energy and life and amazing talent pass away at only 62? What the hell is this? We wait for more news.

Overwhelmingly reader mail demands to know the release date of the next print issue of the Drop Dead Magazine. Well cats and dolls what have we possibly been so busy with as to wait for such a long time between publications?  Well there was the Drop Dead and Mutant Transmissions Festivals, myriad of shows and DJ gigs, we put the Drop Dead Music blog online with print magazine archives, our label Mutant Transmissions released 2 CDs with more to come and Dan started another music blog Better than Sex. Well all that well and good you will say but what about the Drop Dead Magazine, I want to know about all the cool new music and events and have new posters for my walls, and actually hold the thing in my hands, being a tactile fiend that I am .You, my dear reader are absolutely correct and we have been sufficiently shamed by you. We are happy to report that issue 5 is on its way and will be out before end of spring. We have so many new bands to tell you about! We also have a few excellent interviews with veteran bands and we will start to preview some of the content here beginning with Legendary Pink Dots interview coming up later today. Don’t worry we wont give it all away, new issue will be overflowing with new interviews, previously unpublished eye candy, and enough excitement to kick start a fresh obsession with music. We love you dear reader and we have never left, now go set up a show, learn how to dj, make a mixed cd and share it with your friends or just go to an awesome show. Don’ forget to e-mail us and comet on this blog once in a while, it will be too depressing not to hear from you. Now go! Life awaits!

Read more »