Prick Magazine Review of “Come Down from the Hills and Make My Baby”

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. -Jonathan Williams, February 2005 Prick Magazine.