Demonic dwarf Glenn Danzig turned 55 this year. He’s almost older than Satan! The li’l guy was perusing the stock at the Wicker Park Reckless before his Congress Theater gig on Sunday, and according to sharp-eyed fellow shoppers, Mr. Tell Your Children Not to Walk My Way bought records by Rick James and the New York Dolls—perhaps taking style notes on how to really rock some platform boots?
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Over the past few months, nouveau pop princess MNDR (nee Amanda Warner) has been sprinkled with holy water by the likes of the Fader and Pitchfork, and she’s fresh off a tour with DJ and producer Mark Ronson—she duets with Q-Tip on “Bang Bang Bang,” from Ronson’s new LP, Record Collection. This winter Warner is parking it in the Chi-boogie; she tells Gossip Wolf she plans to spend January here. She’ll be shopping for vowels on Craigslist and putting together a touring band of her “favorite Chicago musicians,” and though she wouldn’t say exactly who those musicians might be, GW is imagining a long-awaited supergroup of Green Velvet, Richard Marx, and the rhythm section from the Effigies.
Last week local black-metal duo Cult of Daath released a demo tape through respected below-underground bullet-belt label Nuclear War Now! The five-song cassette, Doomed by the Witch, is the Cult’s first new recording since 2005’s Slit Throats and Ritual Nights.
