Tag: Beaten To Death
Best of 2024: Lone Watie: Can You Give Me A Minute, Please?
Something at work got me thinking a little while ago about The Ant and the Grasshopper. The gist of the fable, of course, is get stuff done now or you’ll regret it later. Now look, …
Best Of 2024 – Spencer Hotz: Do It Animal Style
2024 was a year that happened. Working on a list like this inherently pushes me to reflect on the year that was, which typically leads me to discover some sort of throughline that summarizes the …
Best Of 2024 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
Hi-de-ho, neighbors! Here we are! The closing ceremonies for 2024. Remarkable survival skills, friends. Let’s see some hearty pats on the back, and let’s take some time to reflect on all the good that’s happened …
Best Of 2024 – Our Album Art Favorites
So, the thing about art is… it’s weird, right? Music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, yodeling, all of it. A human urge to express the inarticulable? Sure, grandpa. A desperate attempt to wrest some sort of …
Best Of 2020 – Andrew Edmunds: Alligators Can Grow Up To Fifteen Feet, But Most Of Them Still Only Have Four
Christ, I cannot even imagine how many trillions of words have been written / are being written / will be written about how utterly, unbelievably, unfathomably awful 2020 has been… And yet, I feel like …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: March 24th – March 30th
“Album Of The Day” is a Last Rites Facebook feature we started whose purpose is quite straight-forward: highlight one album per day and say a few words about it. Understanding that not everyone chooses to …
Chris Redar’s Top 10 of 2013 – B.S. Free
Originally written by Chris Redar Lot of shit happened this year, huh? Let’s talk about some fuckin’ music. • • • • • 10. KATALEPSY – AUTOPSYCHOSIS This was described more than once as tech. …
Jordan Campbell’s Top 10 of 2013 – That Guy
Originally written by Jordan Campbell 2013 was the year when I became That Guy. Back in the day — when there was actually a reason to read print ‘zines — I’d pore over the staff …