Author: Dangerous Minds

In Graham Duff’s charming new memoir, Foreground Music: A Life in 15 Gigs, the actor-writer looks back on some of his favorite concerts and discusses…

Although the comparison might seem to be a strange one at first glance, Duke Ellington and Frank Zappa had an awful lot in common. Obviously both…

M.Gira by Jennifer Gira The latest Swans album ‘Leaving Meaning‘ was released last week on Young God Records. It’s the band’s fifteenth studio album and…

On May 1st, 1972, Marvin Gaye returned to the concert stage after not performing live for four years. The previous year, his groundbreaking and commercially…

If you owned a desktop PC in the nineties, then you must remember weepuls. Your friend’s mom might have even had one on the dash…

Fuck Winter–Halloween’s coming! Moving apartment, packing and unpacking boxes of belongings, I rediscovered a few old LPs and cassette recordings of the likes of Vincent…

‘Crepe and Black Lamp,’ by Don Van Vliet, 1986 oil on canvas, 148 x 122 cm / 58.25 x 48 inches And here it is,…

In the early 1970s, the original lineup of the Byrds reconvened, and though the reunion was short-lived, a self-titled LP was produced for David Geffen’s…

Of an October evening, as I prep the house for All Hallow’s Eve–water the pumpkin patch and marinade the eyes of newts–I take great comfort…

If you’re “of a certain age”–say mid-to-late-50s on up–then prog rock was most likely part of the musical background of your existence. You might not…