Stockhausen lectures on Electronic Music
German avant-garde composer and electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen managed to find time to write articles on music theory and lecture on music in Europe…
Author: Kimberly J Bright
Joan Jett’s Runaways-era L.A. Apartment and teen punk party palace
Joan Jett, a very young Billy Idol, Pleasant Gehman (of the Screamin’ Sirens), and Theresa Kereakes’ roommates’ little sister. Photo credit: Theresa Kereakes Joan Jett’s…
‘Sacred Love’: The Bad Brains song that was recorded over the phone from prison
Bad Brains t-shirt from The Rudy Washington, D.C. hardcore punk-reggae legends Bad Brains have had a tumultuous career since forming in 1977. The band started…
On the ‘Hippie Trail’ through Afghanistan to India, 1967-1979
Hearing stories about traveling on the Hippie Trail from Western Europe to India in the late 1960’s and 1970’s always makes me jealous. I can’t…
iPhone Fortune Teller: Enchanting (free) palm-reading app supports London’s oldest occult bookstore
Need a palm reader right now? Want to help keep a small, independent, historically significant business open? No problem! Meet the Swami of London’s Watkins…
A pair of Paul McCartney’s sweaty old pants immortalized in verse by ‘Mersey Beat’ Roger McGough
“Hello mate, can I have me trousers back? It’s Paul.” Roger McGough, one of the cool “Liverpool Poets” of the 1960s deeply influenced by the…
Carol Kaye is Paul McCartney’s favorite bass player, he just doesn’t know it was her
You’ve definitely heard her play guitar and bass. Statistically, you’re likely to own albums she played on. Your parents almost certainly did. According to her,…