Too young to be fully cognizant of the more embarrassing excesses of Gothic music over the past twenty years, the young Turks of NYC’s own Blacklist are, perhaps unwittingly, the best hope of redeeming Goth-metal. Fresh from a European tour complete with horned hotel antics, Blacklist frontman and provocateur Josh Strawn told Ink 19 all about how he learned to stop worrying and love Motorhead and Scott Walker equally.

Musical duos have become their own genre, much in the same way the Beatles helped define the bass, drums, guitars rock quartet. Matthew Moyer looks inside the husband/wife duo of Lullatone to explore the seriousness of toy instruments and just how much babies love Busta Rhymes.

We Will Rock You… To Sleep (Audio Dregs). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Live At Budokan (Epic/Legacy). Review by Scott Adams.

Yosuga (Jagjaguwar). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Jerks and Creeps (Accretions). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Hypernatural #3 (Baskaru). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness (Important). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh (Drag City). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Hundred Sights of Koenji (Skin Graft). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Overture: Live in Nippon Yusen Soko 2006 (Drag City). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Johnny Thunders’ last concert has been preserved for posterity in this new concert DVD. Then why does it look like a Barbara Walters special? Matthew Moyer explains.

Mirror Flake (Flau). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Our Tokyo correspondent, Heather Lorusso , finds much to recommend in this charming story of a group of Japanese schoolgirls trying to get a band together for the big end-of-year festival. Rock!

The definitive coffee table book on Godzilla and his creator, Eiji Tsuburaya. Carl F. Gauze is torn on whether to stifle a giggle at the rubber suits or flee in terror through the streets of Tokyo.

Golden Black (Narnack). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo (Ace Fu). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Citrus (Friendly Fire). Review by Aaron Shaul.

You Take Me to the World (Beta-lactam Ring). Review by Aaron Shaul.