[2] As a musician, Sokol played guitar, bass or sang in Queer Jesus, The Others, Busted Chops, Head First, 4Q, Death of the Party and the Abstract 4.
[3] He appeared several times on WBAI-FM with jazz vocalist Devorah Simpson,[4] as well as backing her on live sessions on the station on guitar and with his band.
[citation needed] Sokol wrote skits for several comedy troupes and Manhattan Public Access shows including Young, Gifted and Broke.
Thirteen plays were produced, including "Let Us Prey,"[9][10] which Michael Musto, reviewed for the Daily News on January 28, 1994, writing "Every bit as weird as it sounds, "Prey"—written by horror/comedy scribe TONY SOKOL for the troupe La Commedia Del Sangue—presents its eerie rituals with conviction, unabashedly lacing the vampires' ruthless survival tactics with more of a raw sexuality than the misty romanticism they're usually diluted by.
Among these: "Frankenstein Walks the Wolfman,” which Time Out New York favorably compared to the horror movie Scream; "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby,” "Baby Jane on Training Wheels", "How You Slice It", "Death Takes a Valium," "Cosmic Inertia", "The Wack", "Factually Incorrect", "Weight Loss by Vivisection" by Creative Artists Laboratory".
Sokol is the culture editor at Den of Geek,[21] where he reviews films and TV, and conducts celebrity interviews with such artists as Marilyn Manson,[22] Malcolm McDowell,[23] and others, as well as writing on the music, true crime and the occult.
[28][29] He was contributing editor at Coed.com,[30] and was a regular contributor to Alt Variety,[31] Inside the Reel, The Silver Tongue, Bedlam and other magazines.