Monster Magnet's "Space Lord": Is It Rock and Rap's Missing Link?

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Dave Wyndorf of Monster Magnet
Tomorrow, stoner-rock heroes Monster Magnet come to the Music Hall of Williamsburg to play their debut album Spine of God in its entirety. As career-making as that album was, talk of looking back on the group's legacy calls to mind their biggest hit, 1998's "Space Lord." While the song has since be remembered as one of the last purely traditional rock songs of the '90s, as well as immortalized as an ironic music cue in movies like Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby, revisiting its place in history reveals the song's video to possibly be the missing link that bridged the gap for the rock-rap explosion of the late '90s.

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Q&A: Monster Magnet's Dave Wyndorf On Big-Budget Videos, Being "Highly Unfashionable," And Getting The Stoner-Rock Tag

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Monster Magnet frontman Dave Wyndorf is a talkative guy. What was supposed to be a 30-minute interview to preview his band's performance of the 1995 album Dopes To Infinity at Music Hall of Williamsburg this Friday stretched into 90, as he took off and ran with subjects like how his band has been pinned down as "stoner rock," his experience with the heyday of big-budget music video excess, and the time he took the stage with his old pal Marilyn Manson. It would be journalistically negligent to leave out any story involving "BB machine guns," so here's a compilation of some of the interview's best outtakes.

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