Music
Metal band Gwar brought thunder and lighting to the confines of NPR’s Tiny Desk with an outrageous act that also praised ‘national treasure’ Terry Gross.
July 18, 2023
Movies
Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s documentary “Aftershock” explores women’s health and childbirth on Hulu, plus more to watch this weekend.
July 22, 2022
Entertainment & Arts
Sept. 16, 2014
The shock-metal band Gwar may routinely decapitate effigies of the pope onstage in an orgy of cartoonish blood and terror, but now some band personnel business has rapidly turned into a genuine -- and tragic -- spat.
May 8, 2015
The frontman for the costume-clad “extraterrestrial” metal band Gwar died of an accidental heroin overdose, the Virginia coroner’s office told local media Tuesday.
June 3, 2014
Dave Brockie, the founder and lead singer of darkly satirical heavy metal band GWAR, was found dead Sunday in his Richmond, Va., home.
March 24, 2014
Nation Now
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Nov. 4, 2011
If nothing else, Gwar’s typically gore-soaked night of heavy-metal shtick on Wednesday at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana revealed who has dibs on the “hack” in “hackneyed.”
May 16, 1997
CELLULOID HEROES: Babes in Toyland and Gwar--two of rock’s most volatile attractions--will be featured in the upcoming A&M; film “S.F.W.,” which stars Stephen Dorff and Reese Witherspoon as anti-heroes who are taken hostage in a convenience store and survive on “beer and Twinkies” for 36 days.
Nov. 21, 1993
The Warner Bros. bunny is hopping cautiously these days.
Oct. 24, 1993