Written by Cole Coonce
Kerosene Bomb Publishing
Book Review by Jonathan Williams
From the February 2005 issue of Prick Magazine.
Book Cover.
Cole Coonce.
The second book
from journalist Cole Coonce,
Come Down from the Hills &
Make my Baby, is a semi-autobiographical
tale of a band
obsessed with drag racing,
drag queens and the apocalyptic downfall of the entertainment industry. The first
person narrative chronicles the struggles of the Braindead Soundmachine, a disco
punk metal band from L.A. that creates artsy noise with guitars, keyboards, and a
revolving door of drum machines and whacked out female singers. The band ends
up being sponsored by a drag racing pit crew, befriending a down-and-out filmmaker,
hiring a manager with one eyebrow, finding spiritual guidance in a Japanese transvestite,
and touring with a German industrial band called DMFDM. Throw in a little
drug abuse, infidelity, cowboy hats, and technical difficulties and you've got a volatile
band on the brink of self-destruction. This angst-filled tale is like a beat novel for
today's disgruntled youth.
