Alex Constantine
Alex Constantine is an investigative journalist, radio announcer and musician. He has contributed as a freelancer to LA Weekly, Z magazine, Coast Weekly, MindNet and Prevailing Winds. He also provided radio commentary for KAZU-FM in Monterey, California. The British newspaper The Observer put his book The Covert War Against Rock in their The 50 Greatest Music Books Ever list. Constantine's band is called The Platitudes. Much of his writing focuses on fascism. The Canadian band The Constantines is named for Alex Constantine.
Constantine believes that the Central Intelligence Agency uses satanic cults to lay the groundwork for trauma-based programming, such as in the McMartin preschool trial, a case he views as a web of interconnected conspiracies. Also, in his book The Covert War Against Rock Constantine advances the theory that the rock stars might have been murdered in a conspiratorial setting.