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When ex-Made Out of Babies singer Julie Christmas released a one-minute preview of a new song called "Scalps" six months ago, Axl pined, "I wanna hear the rest of this, and I wanna hear it now." Ms. Christmas made us wait quite a while, that rat bastid, but great things come to those who wait: MetalSucks [...]
Made Out of Babies is a great band. They make great records and they put on great live performances and their vocalist, Julie Christmas, often seems, at least in concert, truly unhinged, in the best possible way. They are, in a word, awesome. Only I guess I should say "were," not are," 'cause Julie Christmas [...]

Metal musicians are social animals. For all their talk of individualism, isolation, "the goat" and so forth, they tend to stick close to their base social unit: the band. Members of various bands might collaborate in side projects and super groups. But true solo projects, like lone wolves, are rare. In this sense, the lineup at Brooklyn's Saint Vitus bar on February 4 was unusual. Julie Christmas, Stephen Brodsky, and Kevin Hufnagel all play in established heavy bands, but each has an established solo venture. Saint Vitus, which opened about a year ago, is perhaps the [...]

by BBG The body at Saint Vitus ( more by BBG ) NYC's favorite non-local local band The Body , will team with Braveyoung for another string of dates that will include NYC at Saint Vitus on February 9th . Ticketing info is forthcoming . The band will play material from last year's collaborative LP Nothing Passes ( stream it ). Julie Christmas [...]
Julie Christmas is apparently going to have a new song called "Scalps" on the European Falling Down IIV compilation next year, and now a minute-long preview of that song is available for streaming (below). And, oh my dear, does it ever sound gorgeous. Christmas has to have one of the most haunting voices in all of [...]
Though Fucked Up, Made Out of Babies vocalist Julie Christmas and the annual free tech-metal comp Mecha Organa are completely unrelated in just about every way, they all concern heavy music and they've all got new tunes. So: Fucked Up play old-school hardcore punk more in the vein of Bad Religion, Husker Du and the [...]
After listening to Psycho's female blowtorch, Penny Torture, and Ava Inferi's haunting distaff elemental, Carmen Susana Simões, I realized it's time we just chill and admit that women are all-around better at this metal-singing thing. Is this mad exaggeration? It feels like that when I'm away from an MPEG player, but then I listen to those [...]

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A BRIGHT SOCIAL STAR'S TEMPORARY ECLIPSE Mr. E. Berry Wall's Embarrassment—some of the incidents in a very striking career. (NYT, September 5, 1885) Club men about town are just now discussing the financial affairs of the "King of the Dudes," Mr. E. Berry Wall. For some time past the young man has rather withdrawn himself [...]
By Ben Apatoff JULIE CHRISTMAS could sing a bus schedule and make it sound compelling. On The Bad Wife, her solo debut, she roars, wails, coos, shrieks and croons with more guts and versatility than any singer this side of CHRIS CORNELL, making every lyric matter in a way that metal records almost never do. ...
I'm enjoying doing these "Cinemetal Round-Up" things, and hopefully you are, too. Actually, I don't care if you're enjoying them or not, I'm the one who has to write them and I don't really know you anyway. SO, here we go with the latest batch of clips intended to sell you some music. First up, [...]

It's hard to tell from her press photo, but Julie Christmas is a hottie. By which I mean that her vocal style burns. The Brooklyn native's solo debut, The Bad Wife, will be available on November 9th, 2010, from Rising Pulse Records . Just in time to buy it for all the Lorena Bobbit types on your X-Mas list. Christmas has been a part of underground bands like Battle of Mice and Spylacopa (along with folks from The Dillinger Escape Plan, Candiria and Isis), so you know [...]

Made Out of Babies singer Julie Christmas will release her first solo album, The Bad Wife , on November 9th. Sample some of it with "July 31st" and "Bow". http://www.myspace.com/juliech ristmas http://www.risingpulse.com/
By which I do not mean that Ms. Christmas has found God. I meant "CHRIST!" more in a "screaming random shit when you orgasm" kinda way. 'Cause while Made Out of Babies' often seemingly badshit crazy (in the best possible way) front lady announced her first solo album, The Bad Wife, back in June, now the [...]
Made Out of Babies' masterpiece, The Ruiner, came out exactly two years ago today, and to be honest, I was hoping there might be a new MOOB album in the not-too-distant future - especially after watching them absolutely annihilate live earlier this year. Well, the bad news is that there's news on the MOOB front, vocalist/batshit [...]
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Candiria needs no introduction, but even those familiar with the band might not know that guitarist John LaMacchia is one of the most hard-working men in underground metal. In addition to his work with Candiria - who are releasing Toying With the Insanities Volumes 1 and 2 this September - LaMacchia runs Rising Pulse Records, [...]
Call it the Sarah Palin Effect: so much is already stacked against In This Moment (a metalcore band two to three years after metalcore flickered out with an incredibly attractive frontwoman equipped with a ridiculously provocative sense of fashion) that the bar is set almost comedically low. But much like struggling to answer simple follow-up [...]