04/24/24 at 02:36 pm
Richard Metzger
Sorry, but this is not going to be one of those analog vs. digital rants that goofball audiophile types like to indulge in at the drop of a...
03/29/24 at 09:22 am
Richard Metzger
Bud Lee (1940-2016) is a great American photographer whose work has somehow been overlooked. A prolific contributor to Esquire, Life, Rolling...
03/27/24 at 02:56 pm
Richard Metzger
Six years before Alejandro Jodorowsky’s extraordinary but ill-fated 1975 attempt to film Frank Herbert’s Dune—the story of which was...
03/24/24 at 04:42 pm
Richard Metzger
Sherman Hemsley, the actor who played George Jefferson, was known to be a huge fan of prog rock, especially Gentle Giant, Nektar and Gong....
03/21/24 at 08:12 am
Richard Metzger
“I’m very interested in murder.”—Nico, 1970 Via an intense David Bowie fandom, and also from being an avid reader of CREEM magazine, I...
03/01/24 at 07:07 pm
Richard Metzger
National Lampoon editor Tony Hendra—probably best-known as Ian Faith, the irritable, incompetent manager of Spinal Tap—created the fucking...
01/01/24 at 11:39 am
Richard Metzger
I was trying to describe this thing last night to some friends over dinner, but I think you just have to see it… I posted this here a long...
01/01/24 at 08:00 am
Bart Bealmear
If you’re a horror movie fan, I think you’ll agree with the assessment that Scream (1996) is a top-notch meta horror-comedy. But did you...
12/01/23 at 05:42 am
Richard Metzger
This is a guest post by Spencer Kansa, author of Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron, Zoning and Out There: The Transcendent...
11/30/23 at 10:00 am
Bart Bealmear
Messiah of Evil is an extraordinary, underseen horror movie from 1974. It’s a film that, despite its low budget and production issues,...
10/07/23 at 09:50 am
Richard Metzger
In the ever-evolving tapestry of fashion and youth subcultures, the New Romantics of the 1980s emerged as a vibrant and revolutionary movement....
08/11/23 at 10:18 am
Oliver Hall
‘A Sight for Sore Eyes, Vol. 2,’ now available from Melodic Virtue Arguing for the timelessness of the Residents’ music in the...
08/04/23 at 11:29 am
Oliver Hall
Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah (courtesy of On-U Sound) Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah and Adrian Sherwood inaugurated the daring studio project African Head...
06/23/23 at 11:08 am
Oliver Hall
The poster in vinyl copies of ‘The Beggar’, out today on Young God Records (illustration by Nicole Boitos) Does time slow to a crawl during...
05/24/23 at 10:39 am
Richard Metzger
Sad news to report, Kenneth Anger, the Magus of American cinema has died, aged 96. He’d been living for some time in an assisted living...
04/20/23 at 06:00 am
Bart Bealmear
In 1978, a wonderfully weird album was released under the name the Happy Dragon-Band. The Detroit outfit wasn’t really a band, but a project...
03/14/23 at 10:36 am
Oliver Hall
THEM! courtesy of the Cryptic Corporation When everyone lives in the future, the present is au revoir. —Delta Nudes Last Christmas marked the...
02/22/23 at 05:15 pm
Howie Pyro
NOTE: This post, written by the late Howie Pyro, was originally published in 2020, when For the Love of a Glove had just opened. It’s back!...
02/08/23 at 08:51 am
Richard Metzger
There is a new Luke Haines and Peter Buck collaboration out, and I highly recommend it. All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out was created along...
01/16/23 at 02:34 pm
Cherrybomb
The cover of one of only 150 known copies of ‘Waiting Out The Eighties,’ the sole album from The Coupe de Villes—a trio featuring...