Empire Strikes Back

We bet you're just dying to know what the heck happened to Atari Teenage Riot, aren't you? Really you're not? Oh, but we bet, more importantly, what ATR mastermind Alec Empire has been up to right? Are we right? That you already knew he had another solo album, "Futurist," out on Oct. 10 -- you were just waiting for us to say something about it? Yes?

And you're lamenting the fact you just don't have enough scathing, writhing hard rock in your arsenal? That your life has been empty since "With Teeth" was released and, like, you're just so over Ministry and you can't keep track of all the lost members of Rage... that you want the tips of your hair to be burned off by sonic, twisted industrial punk, sweat bursting from your brow as you lip sync -- yes, lip sync -- to darkness. Utter darkness. And tracks like "Gotta Get Out," "Point of No Return" and "Make Em Bleed."

Or ou just wanted us to talk about cute Kylie being on the cover of Vogue Australia, didn't you? *Sigh* you're so predictable.