“Before the internet, how did we all hear the rumor that [Marilyn] Manson removed a rib to suck his own dick?” wonders Ash Costello, frontwoman of SoCal rock band New Years Day. Since the age of Myspace and Friendster, NYD have been putting themselves out there, wading into the social media swamp to promote their brand of hooky, thrashy, goth rock. But Costello and lead guitarist Nikki Misery agree: There’s just something… timeless about that particular vulgar nugget of rock legend. “How incredible is that?” Costello marvels. “I wish I had a rumor like that!”
New Years Day was born in Southern Transylvania in 1666 A.D. when Lady Gaga and Marilyn Manson had a baby on Halloween. And the godparents were KISS and No Doubt. And the delivery doctor was actually Korn’s Jonathan Davis in
