Negativland fans rejoyce! 700+ episodes of Don Joyce’s radio show ‘Over the Edge’ available online
If there were a Mount Rushmore for sound collagists, Don Joyce would be on it. Being one of the members of Negativland (and, incidentally, coining…
Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 09/2015
Echo and the Bunnymen rock Liverpool on BBC 2’s ‘Pop Carnival,’ 1982
In the summer of 1982, Echo and the Bunnymen were the top act (at least in retrospect, if not at the time) to play the…
Magazine ads from the heyday of cocaine chic
Who was the Don Draper of magazine ads for cocaine and cocaine accessories? (That turn of phrase can’t help put me in the mind of…
Alternate universe ‘Pulp Fictions’: Who else did Quentin Tarantino consider for these iconic roles?
Casting in movies or TV is a difficult job for the ordinary viewer to get his or her head around, because the tendency to regard…
1957’s ‘House of the Future’–according to Monsanto and Disney
Photo: Ralph Crane, LIFE Magazine From 1957 to 1967, in Anaheim’s Disneyland, there existed the “House of the Future,” a creation of the plastics division…
DEVO, Blondie, Talking Heads, Klaus Nomi on ’20/20′ segment on New Wave, 1979
At DM we often poke fun at impossibly stiff or clueless news reporting on the music of the past, but sometimes you run across a…
Jazzercise takes on Sid Vicious. Nobody wins
The biggest-selling single the Sex Pistols ever put out wasn’t “Anarchy in the U.K.” or “God Save the Queen” or “Pretty Vacant” or “Holidays in…