Welcome to No Clout, home to all the precious nothings that I have done in three decades of involvement with the underground Metal and Hardcore Punk scene: podcasts, old fanzines, past bands, mixtapes... this is where all the stuff I've done over the years will be laid to rest.
No Clout also hosts the #MetalPunkTapeExchange FAQ.
Metal Punk Tape Exchange (or MPTX) is a fun thing we started with my old friend Luc, it's a European mixtape trading ring that takes place every 4 weeks in physical life and on social networks. (Yes, we trade mixtapes on actual cassette tapes). I hope one day we'll be able to lift it off Instagram and facebook but, so far, it's been the most convenient way of having between 50-70 people each month or so trading tapes all over the globe. It's one of my proudest achievements, to be honest.
No Clout also hosts the #MetalPunkTapeExchange FAQ.
Metal Punk Tape Exchange (or MPTX) is a fun thing we started with my old friend Luc, it's a European mixtape trading ring that takes place every 4 weeks in physical life and on social networks. (Yes, we trade mixtapes on actual cassette tapes). I hope one day we'll be able to lift it off Instagram and facebook but, so far, it's been the most convenient way of having between 50-70 people each month or so trading tapes all over the globe. It's one of my proudest achievements, to be honest.
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The most active section of this website is the DRY RETCH blog ('digesting the drivel'). Other sections include a few interviews I've made with friends (planning on doing more in the future!), 'bargain bin reviews' where I plan on reviewing all the cheap 1-euro CDs I keep buying for no reason other than their price, and 're-reviews' which will be about revisiting glorious albums that impressed me a lot in my teenage years. My annual 'best of' lists will also go there, as well as a movie review section powered by Letterboxd.
Saving the best for last, my friend Philippe agreed to do a 'Great comic books you've never heard of' column a looong time ago, in a moment of drunken nostalgia - of which I hope there will be more (not the moments of drunken nostalgia, the comics column!) No Clout also has a WORK header, where I've put my Resume and a long video playlist of TV series trailers I was associated with in the past, in my previous tenure as art director for CANAL+, before embarking on a new professional adventure - screenwriting -, of which I'll be telling more soon. After all, this place will be my main online presence for the foreseeable future, so why not make the most of it. Signing off, Maximilien Michiels October 2021 |
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