Matthew Moyer caught up with Vivian Girls guitarist Cassie Ramone on the downside of SXSW, and found the core Vivians restless and ready to move on to new projects, but still completely dedicated to art and music.

Kander and Ebb’s final musical. The Scottsboro Boys, depicts the true story of American racism in the South. Despite a mixture of eye-poppin’ musical sequences and social commentary, the musical misses many cues. Julie Haverkate provides analysis.

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.

Renihilation (20 Buck Spin). Review by Matthew Moyer.

After thirty years, music critic Gary Giddins is still listening, still watching, and still… writing a multi-volume biography of your grandma’s favorite crooner, Bing Crosby? Ink 19 sat down with Giddins to talk about the shape of jazz to come.

Exploding Head (Mute). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Cut (Affairs of the Heart). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Idiosyncratic and in relentless pursuit of perfection, Sonny Rollins cut a swath through jazz music that has yet to fade out. Scott Adams examines this documentary of his musical achievements.

Shut Up and Bleed (Atavistic Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Midnight of the Century (Wierd). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Does You Inspire You (Columbia). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Two similar and familiar bands collided as The Faint and Ladytron shared a co-headlining bill that included a pair of sold-out stops in New York City. With more black attire and keyboards than one could count, the two acts offered career-spanning setlists filled with their distinctive synth-pop, post-punk and new-wave sounds. Kiran Aditham witnessed night two of the dark, dancefloor delights for himself.

Scottish rockers Glasvegas rode into New York City on a wave of hype for two sold-out shows. With only one proper album to flaunt, the band nevertheless proved to Kiran Aditham that they can bring arena-sized sound to a mid-sized theater.

Television can be good for you. Especially when it’s Glenn O’Brien’s NYC art-damaged public access freakshow. This is TV Party. Pay attention.

Take note, internet-broadcasting upstarts, the DVD reissues of Glenn O’Brien’s pioneering 1980s shambles of a talk show uncover a whole new level of transcendent slack. On this episode: Jeffrey Lee Pierce!

Words From The Front (Collectors’ Choice). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Matthew Moyer believes that this new Lydia Lunch DVD retrospective provides a fine primer for a life well-lived on the fringes of art and expression.

Three existential cubist detective stories, courtesy of Paul Aster, have Carl F Gauze nodding off like Sherlock Holmes “relaxing” (wink wink) after a tough case.

Vivian Girls (In The Red). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Alight of Night (Slumberland). Review by Matthew Moyer.