‘Poem for Keef’: Patti Smith’s poem for Keith Richards, 1978
There’s a delightful slapdash quality to the magazine Rock Scene from the 1970s. The magazine, which was edited by Richard Robinson, featured contributions from Alan…
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A young Jim Jarmusch reports on Cleveland’s foremost post-punk heroes, Pere Ubu, 1977
In the early 1970s, Akron native Jim Jarmusch, born in 1953, transferred from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University to Columbia University, receiving…
‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Walking Dead’ and more reimagined as old VHS covers
French artist Julien Knez has whipped up a handful of delightful VHS covers for popular post-DVD-era TV series and movies like The Walking Dead or…
All 25 episodes of ‘New Wave Theatre’ are online
A generous and kind soul uploaded all 25 episodes of New Wave Theatre the incredible local TV show that extensively covered the Los Angeles punk…
Palettes of Picasso, Matisse, Degas and Van Gogh are works of art unto themselves
Vincent Van Gogh Some years ago the inventive German photographer Matthias Schaller who specializes in what he calls the “indirect portrait” was in the studio…
Hip Priest: The Fall’s Mark E. Smith used to do tarot card readings for drugs
The other day I was in the Rock Hall’s Library and Archives at the Tommy LiPuma Center for Creative Arts on Cuyahoga Community College’s Metropolitan…
Cookie Monster channels Isaac Hayes for a ‘Theme from Shaft’ parody, can you dig it?
In 1977 disco was HUGE and everyone and his monkey was putting out a disco record–Ethel Merman, for instance. The Children’s Television Workshop wasn’t above…
Lydia Lunch’s sexy ‘Fashion Calendar,’ 1978
This “fashion calendar” featuring Lydia Lunch, queen of New York’s no wave movement of the late 1970s, was executed by Julia Gorton for a class…