The Smol Bear Review
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Forged in the Long Night: The Ballad of Judas Priest at Berlinale Special Midnight 2026
The story of Judas Priest has been told in fragments for decades—through album jackets, backstage rumors, courtroom transcripts, and the roar of stadium crowds—but The Ballad of Judas Priest, directed by Sam Dunn and Tom Morello, gathers th...
Mootsie Tootsie
Kari Lee Krome has always been a catalyst—an artist whose work emerges from the margins with the force of revelation. Her story in The Junk Merchants: A Literary Tribute to William S. Burroughs (Nocturnicorn Books, 2016–2025 editions) carri...
Finding Mr. Barker
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FINDING MR. BARKER
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Caitlín R. Kiernan
The more years come and go, leaving me still stranded here, the less stock I place in my recollections. They’re growing more than a little threadbare, if...
RUSH: FIFTY SOMETHING — THE GREAT RETURN
South America, the UK & Europe — 2027
On a cool Monday morning, February 23rd, 2026, the announcement dropped like a long‑awaited thunderclap: Rush — or rather, the living, beating heart of Rush, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson — expan...
William S Burroughs . Jimmy Page (LED ZEPPELIN)
From Crawdaddy Magazine, June 1975.
When I was first asked to write an article on the Led Zeppelin group, to be based on attending a concert and talking with Jimmy Page, I was not sure I could do it, not being sufficiently knowledgeable ab...
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Alex S. Johnson is an investigative journalist, dark fiction author, poet, artist, songwriter and film-maker based in Carmichael, California.
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