Monthly Archives: May 2012

Slash and burn: former Gunner’s solo album scorches
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SLASH / Apocalyptic Love (Universal)

MUSIC fans may well wonder why a band like Guns N’ Roses gets inducted in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, when the lineup that made them famous hasn’t played together in roughly 20 years.

Then you hear what just one of them can do on an album like Apocalyptic Love.

Founding GNR guitarist Slash’s riffs and solos are as nimble as ever, and crackle with the energy of a musician still out to top everything he’s done before.

Slash’s second solo album kicks into high gear with “Standing in the Sun,” a melodic thumper full of the electric boogie that made GNR classic “Paradise City” such a crowd-pleaser. “Halo” boils over with sharp hooks and blistering lead guitar, and “We Will Roam” chugs along with radio-friendly riffs and an anthemic chorus.
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Werewolf Wednesday: Catherine Lundoff’s Silver Moon
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If you think the modern werewolf tale is a thinly-veiled metaphor for raging hormones, Catherine Lundoff would say you’re right.  Just maybe not be the ones you’re thinking of.

Lycanthropy in pop culture has become so attached to the adolescent (I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Teen Wolf were early examples) that we ignore other times of change in the human body — such as the transition from middle age to one’s golden years.

But in Silver Moon, Lundoff eschews that obsession with youth by focusing on women “of a certain age.”

“I got the original idea for menopausal werewolves from watching the werewolf film Ginger Snaps, which features teenaged protagonists,” she says. “It’s also funny and political and very grim, and I wanted to do something a bit like that, except with a protagonist who was definitely not a teenager.”
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Welcome to the new site
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I promise, there will be more to come soon.  For those of you migrating over from the previous site for As You Were, you’ll find all the articles and comments originally posted there are now here.  If you’ve never been, welcome to the site — hope you enjoy what you see here, and more is on the way soon — blog tours, interviews, and book reviews. Thanks for stopping by!