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Legendary Chicago-based guitarist Pete Cosey, best known for his avant-garde playing as a Miles Davis sideman in the early 70s, has died at the age of 68, as reported by the Chicago Reader: Co...
Friday June 1st is National Doughnut Day! National Doughnut Day was established in 1938 by the Chicago Salvation Army to raise much-needed funds during the Great Depression, and to honor the w...
The duo behind Cassetteboy have once again delivered another fine piece of juvenile piss-takery, this time at the expense of Her Majesty the Queen, the Royal Family, the British Prime Minister...
Dean Chamberlain’s famous portrait of Tim Leary Jim Bliss writes at Dorian Cope’s On This Deity blog: At 12:44am on the 31st of May 1996, Dr. Timothy Leary sat bolt upright in bed startli...
Talk gay? Dress gay? Can this be real??? Joe.My.God reader Clay quipped: “it’s all fun and games until someone gets a prick in their eye”
Growing up in West Virginia, I was keenly aware of charismatic Christian serpent handlers, although I didn’t know any adherents to this particular flavor of Pentecostalism personally. On...
Bob Egan’s PopShots blog has a wonderful deconstruction of Neil Young’s iconic After the Goldrush album cover. In the above shot, you see the image in context, where it was shot at...
My interest in the Olympic volunteer scheme started a year or two ago when billboards sprang up all over London Underground with a close up of Usain Bolt’s sweaty face. The accompanying text i...
The fine folks over at Morbid Anatomy are holding two special classes with “self taught ceroplast” Sigrid Sarda. The first class, Life and Death Mask Making Workshop, will be held ...
Do you recall the sordid saga of Stefanie Woods, the sociopathic Paris Hilton doppelgänger of Palm Beach, FL who first came to the nation’s attention in 2008 for stealing money from a Gi...
Magnificent image of a rainbow during lightning storms in Haikou, China. Via Boing Boing
As a child, John Cassavetes chipped his front teeth in a fight. As his parents were too poor to buy him caps, Cassavetes didn’t smile for years. The experience made him aware of how othe...
After an onstage meltdown in Vancouver last year led to a spell in an Arizona rehab facility, Ween’s Aaron Freeman told Rolling Stone yesterday that the band is no more: For most of his ...
“Socialism. The new “S word”—it’s the worst thing you can call someone. It’s like the “C word” and the “N word” had a baby.” &#...
Big Time filmed at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater and the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, is like entering a sideshow tent in Tom Waits’s brain. Directed by Chris Blum and writte...
Scotch had a string of Italo-disco hits in the early-to-mid 1980s. Manlio Cangelli was the mastermind of the band, which included playing synths, programming drum machines and composing the sm...
The great French choreographer Roland Petit’s “Pink Floyd Ballet” saw the group performing live onstage in 1972 and 1973 with the dancers of Le Ballet de Marseille, PetitR...
I was about to write that “Theme One” is a “seldom heard” classic by Beatles producer George Martin, but seeing how for years, every single morning when Radio 1 began i...
Neil Young at the “Rock am Ring” festival in Germany on May 18, 2002. Enjoy two and a half hours of Mr. Young with Booker T. and The MGs. Neil Young—vocals, guitar, harmonica...
“Can I do it ‘til I need glasses?” It was odd seeing Nietzche’s face on that pancake yesterday, as I’ve just been reading Gregor Dellin’s Richard Wagner, His Life, His Work, H...
He describes him in short, clipped sentences. ‘He came into the hotel, very quickly indeed. Sharp strides, quick handshake. It was extremely friendly.’ And then he tells you about ...
Quentin Dupieux, director of the killer tire movie Rubber, premiered the first chapter of his newest project at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It’s called Wrong Cops, stars Mari...
The Lovely Sorts of Degenerates at Everything is Terrible bring you a sweet collage of opening graphics and other detritus from local shows during everyone’s fave decade… &n...
When he moved back to Dundee, Billy Mackenzie didn’t have any recording equipment in his home, and would spend hours in the local ‘phone booth, singing his latest ideas down the li...
Tonight, if you are lucky enough to be in Los Angeles (I love saying that) Jonathan Wilson and his band will be playing a very special show for family and friends in Venice, CA at the Del Mont...
Beat Street won’t win any awards for authenticity. It’s Hollywood slick and full of unintentional laughs but it does have some of the flava of the era and features performances by Afrika ...
If, like me, you get just a bit tired of The Cult Of Beatles (™) then consider this the perfect antidote. The Better Beatles were a post-punk outfit from Nebraska who released one 7” sin...
Happy Birthday Siouxsie Sioux - lead singer and co-founder (along with Steven Severin) of one the most important, brilliant and influential bands of the past 35 years. Siouxsie was a pioneer i...
Philip K. Dick - The Penultimate Truth succeeds in shedding some light on the visionary author despite having an unnecessary framing device involving special agents that seem to have wandered ...
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