Monsters of Ink is a new series where we talk to some of the artists and designers, both legends and legends-to-be, whose contributions define the… Read more
Author: Dustin Krcatovich
Dustin Krcatovich is a writer, musician, DJ, and insufferable contrarian based in Portland, Oregon. Reportedly, his writing once deeply offended a member of the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
People of a certain age like to talk about how much mixtapes meant to them as teenagers, and surely not without cause. Still, let's face… Read more
On October 5 of this year, Portland, Oregon City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly stood in front of city hall and made an official proclamation that, within… Read more
Halloween falls on a Tuesday this year, which means that plenty of you party-hearty mugs will find yourselves celebrating for upwards of a week, starting… Read more
A look back at the definitive documentary on the grunge movement with the people who made it. Read more
In recent years, Michael Cera has been proven more and more the renaissance man. Yes, he's kept a toehold in the mainstream comedy world where… Read more
It should go without saying to most Riot Fest readers that Andrew W.K. is passionate about a lot of things: the party, music, kindness, the… Read more
Long-running Louisville, KY (by way of Bloomington, IN) gothic folk/country band Murder By Death has been relatively quiet in 2017, but they're hardly resting on… Read more
As most of our readers have surely heard by now, the Texan movie maverick Tobe Hooper shuffled off this mortal coil on Saturday at the… Read more
Whether it's with the garbled post-everything pop of Black Moth Super Rainbow or the analog synth crunch of his solo material, Pittsburgh's own Tobacco has… Read more
At this juncture in history, Nine Inch Nails has been around long enough for its combination of post-industrial pummel and melodic melancholy to have exerted… Read more
As most rock nerds know by now, Big Star were the quintessential "should have been huge" band. In their short time as a group, the… Read more