Todd Stadtman

Stadtman made his debut in the San Francisco music scene as singer and bassist for a punk/power-pop group The Blitz in 1978, and later for the popular local art-punk band B Team, along with friends David Rubenstein and Greg Baker, releasing two EPs, First Product and Buy American, between 1981 and 1983. In 1985, he then fronted The Naked Into, a dark pop outfit that also featured Lisa Davis, later of American Music Club and the Toiling Midgets, and Dave Hawkins, later of Engine 88, and David Rubenstein. The band released one LP, 1987's Here Comes the World, on local label Infrasonic Records, before breaking up the following year. As a member of the duo Zikzak – which also featured guitarist/arranger David Rubinstein – he co-wrote, co-produced and performed on the 2000 Bitter Records album release See You There. Following that group's dissolution in 2001, he embarked upon a solo career, releasing two solo albums in the ensuing years. The first of these, 2003's Anxotica, featured contributions from San Francisco soundtrack artists Pray for Rain, singer-songwriter Hannah Marcus and American Music Club guitarist Vudi. For 2005's Prix Fixe Records release Only I Can Save You – a disc with a far more minimal, electro influenced sound than its predecessor – Stadtman co-produced with Pray for Rain's Dan Wool.  He continued to write new music, in 2017 a musical called Mad Girl, and the following year, a new album, Long Night of Glass Dolls.  In January 2020, Stadtman participated in a reunion of The Naked Into at The Ivy Room in Albany California.  Due to the continuation of band dynamics that followed them from the '80s, Stadtman and Rubinstein performed the reunion as a duo.

Stadtman began writing for Teleport City, one of the longest running cult cinema websites on the internet,^{[citation needed]} in February 2008. Around the same time, he started his Rondo Award nominated blog Die, Danger, Die, Die, Kill!  He also contributed to the Movie-fan Princess and Cinemaazi blogs.

In March 2015, he released his first book, Funky Bollywood: The Wild World of 1970s Indian Action Cinema, which was published by Britain's FAB Press to international acclaim.[2] His writing has also appeared in the Times of India, Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, and on the websites io9, Mondo Macabro, and The Cultural Gutter. He also contributed to the Turkey edition of the World Directory of Cinema, published by Intellect, Ltd. In 2017, he published his first novel in the “SF Punk Trio”, Please Don't Be Waiting for Me, which was followed in 2018 by So Good Its Bad, its sequel. He completed the trilogy, releasing Never Divided in 2019.

In April of 2018, Stadtman hosted "Friday's Best Pop Song Ever", a podcast that became an extension from his blog, 'Die, Danger, Die, Die, Kill!', in which he showcased unique pop songs. Additionally, his contributions to the following podcasts reflect his passion to cult cinema: Infernal Brains with Tars Tarkas, Taiwan Noir with Ken Brorsson and Monster Island Resort, with Miguel Rodriguez.  Stadtman also co-hosted celebrated global pop songs with 67 episodes on the radio show, “Pop Offensive” on KGPC from Peralta College in Oakland, California from 2014 to 2020.

Stadtman fell ill in November 2020 and passed away with multiple medical complications due to pre-existing conditions in Brooklyn, New York on January 9, 2021, with his wife by his side.