In my quest for new steampunk fiction, I was delighted to find Clockwork Lives with the famous Neal Peart as a co-author. For those too young to know him, Peart was the drummer and writer for the progressive rock band Rush. The novel is a companion to Rush’s concept album Clockwork Angels from 2012. In […]
The “Other” Steampunk Band During the recent peak of the steampunk craze in the two-thousand aughts, a number of musical groups became known as steampunk bands. The best known seems to be a certain robotic cabaret act I reviewed a few weeks ago. Yet there are other groups that aren’t quite as theatrical but capture […]
With the proliferation of steampunk culture, it was inevitable that eventually there would be steampunk music. Of all the self-proclaimed “steampunk” groups (yes, there are several) Steam-Powered Giraffe is certainly the most famous. I haven’t seen them perform live, but I have enjoyed much of their work on-line. Steam-Powered Giraffe definitely has a memorable gimmick. […]
