Formed in 1976, the Slits were one of the earliest all-female punk bands—if not the first. The fantastic, feature-length documentary on the group, Here to…
In 1995, the Doors’ keyboardist, Ray Manzarek, and biographer, Danny Sugerman, appeared on the Australian music video program rage, smoking cigs on the couch and…
I’ve never played the video game Deus Ex Machina, released in 1984 by Automata UK for the ZX Spectrum system–not only did I not own…
Skip Tracer, a 1977 Canadian film about debt collectors, shares some striking similarities with Alex Cox’s 1984 cult classic, Repo Man. The roots of Repo…
Jello Biafra in court, 1987 (via Heather Harris Photography) In December 1985, a Southern Californian teenager named Tammy Scharwath bought the Dead Kennedys’ latest album,…
One of the great challenges of considering the work of a groundbreaking artist like Ron Athey is that we must consider how temporal and ephemeral…
Entrées de Secours (Google translation: “Emergency Inputs”) is the work of French filmmaker, Jérôme de Missolz. From the late ‘70s through the early ‘80s, he…
Emma Gillingham, circa 1851-60. Nick Cave has often said he likes Elvis Presley during his late, fat, drug-addled period because those “final concerts were absolutely…
When I was really young and first getting into music, Todd Rundgren was one of the first artists who I discovered. His AM staple “Hello…
Less than 60 seconds of a tune called “Modernaire” is heard in Purple Rain, the 1984 film starring Prince. The group performing the song, led…