Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 07/2014

You know, I watched that whole movie about Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher a few weeks ago, and not once did the movie address Apple’s…

Norman Mailer’s admiration for Pablo Picasso is well known; in 1995 he published a book, Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography…

“Piano Phase” (1967) was Steve Reich’s first composition to use phasing in live performance–he had already tried it with taped music. The concept here is…

“Final Victory / World Champions 2014”; a Nazi cross topples Rio’s Christ the Redeemer The combination of Argentina and Germany surely put the subject of…

If you can distress denim with acid, I guess using wild animals to do it isn’t too strange…. Admirers of the Kamine Zoo in Hitachi,…

Oh, lawyers. You gotta love ’em. In 2002, Jeffrey Baldwin of Toronto died of starvation at the age of five after severe abuse at the…

Hardware Wars is a thirteen-minute video parody of Star Wars that was released the same year as the original, 1977. Directed by Ernie Fosselius (the…

Milo Goes to College by the Descendents is surely one of the most accessible and enduring albums to come out of the SoCal punk scene…