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Author: Christopher Bickel

This is hardcore, is it not?: The ’80s white rap group that wasn’t the Beastie Boys

Excluding Blondie’s 1981 foray into the genre with “Rapture,” when it comes to listing “white rappers of the ’80s,” most people would start and end…

Christopher Bickel
Nov 11, 2016

Booji Boy: When DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh was guest DJ on ‘The Doctor Demento Show,’ 1980

Here’s an hour of Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh appearing on the Doctor Demento radio show in 1980 playing songs from his own collection. Mothersbaugh is in…

Christopher Bickel
Nov 7, 2016

Debbie Harry covering The Ramones 27 years ago

What we have here is some ultra-rare footage of Debbie Harry performing the Ramones classic “Pet Semetary,” a song which was written for the Stephen…

Christopher Bickel
Oct 24, 2016

Corey Feldman isn’t the only actor with a ‘terrible band’

Corey Feldman has been all over the news in the last couple of weeks, mostly for a musical performance of the song “Go For It”…

Christopher Bickel
Sep 26, 2016

You’ll be GG LOL’n with these GG Allin emojis!

Aggronautix, the company that makes those cool “throbbleheads,” has teamed up with Emoji Fame and GG Allin’s brother, Merle, to create just what the Internet…

Christopher Bickel
Sep 16, 2016

Cops offer to test your meth for the Zika virus — free of charge!

The Bath Township Police Department in Michigan is making meth users with Zika contamination concerns an offer they can’t refuse. With a Facebook post containing…

Christopher Bickel
Sep 9, 2016

Entire print run of crucial post-industrial/apocalyptic folk magazine ‘The Fifth Path’ is now online

The Fifth Path was a short-lived fanzine, produced sporadically between 1991 and 1994, that covered the post-industrial scene as well as the genre that later…

Christopher Bickel
Sep 9, 2016

The rise and fall of Tower Records and how the music industry screwed the pooch in the late ’90s

I just finished watching Colin Hanks’ impressive documentary on the rise and fall of Tower Records, titled All Things Must Pass. While I’d recommend the…

Christopher Bickel
Aug 26, 2016

Hip hop pioneer Egyptian Lover offers up hand-drawn 12-inch covers

LA hip hop and electro music pioneer, Egyptian Lover released some of the earliest rap LPs but is more widely known for his twelve inch…

Christopher Bickel
Jul 18, 2016

‘Disney presents Cannibal Holocaust on VHS’ and other killer fan-art mashups

Collecting horror and exploitation films on the VHS format has become a huge deal in the past five years with several Facebook collector groups popping…

Christopher Bickel
Jul 13, 2016

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