Liam Sweeny

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St. Nicholas – Santa’s a Zombie, by Liam Sweeny. Nothing can irritate some people more than an over-enthusiastic yard decorator throwing the Christmas stuff out before Halloween. I suspect this is because in a world of gottahaveits, Christmas is an onerous burden to anyone with a shopping list, which is pretty much everyone. But a […]

We reached out to Jancy Rae of MØAA for our segment, “Thanks for Asking. Here is the good word. RRX: Every comic book hero has an origin story. What is the origin story for the band? (points if you tell it like a comic book origin.) Jancy: I started my solo project MØAA when working […]

Flatwounds is heavy grunge. Being a teen in the nineties, I hear grunge and I get a warm fuzzy. I go through a lot of antacids. But Flatwounds is pretty sick, and I dig their sound. They have energy; they have pulse. And right here, right now, they have the spotlight. We welcome Flatwounds. RRX: […]

  Psychomanteum – Thanks for Asking, by Liam Sweeny. We reached out to the band Psychomanteum, Listen Up winner and all-around swell bunch. You can listen in. RRX: Every band’s first song is a milestone. But so is the latest song. Describe the first song/album you recorded, and also the latest song/album you recorded; what […]

High Fines and Misdemeanors – by Liam Sweeny. Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket? For like what? Ten over? Maybe fifteen? How about ninety in a fifty-five? Yeah, I know, that’s really not unheard of with everybody in such a damn hurry to get nowhere special (yeah, I’m the guy that usually does the […]

Adequate Phil – Thanks for Asking, by Liam Sweeny. RRX: Every comic book hero has an origin story. What is the origin story for the band? (points if you tell it like a comic book origin.) AP: Well the hero of the band is clearly Duke Phil of Rochester. Descended from a long lineage of […]

Pill Pusher Stands Up – by Liam Sweeny. Welcome to the world of The Villages, a multi-county retirement home, one of the biggest in the country. I’ve never been there, but they’ve got everything probably. Backgammon, walking trails, pools, and a guy for your penis. That’s right. Reginald Kincer, 77, a folkloric figure who, upon […]

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Stoneman Willie. If you have to have a nickname, how choice is “Stoneman Willie”? I would take this name for myself; unfortunately, it’s been taken for 128 years. But soon, it will be retired in a very strange story out of Reading, Pennsylvania. Stoneman Willie was a pickpocket with Irish roots. He was arrested doing […]

This edition of “Thanks for Asking,” Xperience Monthly writer and contributor Liam Sweeny interviews the band Chico Romano. RRX: Every comic book hero has an origin story. What is the origin story for the band? (points if you tell it like a comic book origin.) CR: If I were to really delve into the origin […]


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