Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 03/2017

Few bands did as much to push forward the visual experience spectators could enjoy at arena shows as Pink Floyd–the very phrase “a Pink Floyd…

After last year’s surprising choice of Bob Dylan to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, some observers surely saw it coming that the prototypical trickster…

Japanese nurse blowing through a conch shell There’s a website called Sukima Nurse that offers pictures of a Japanese nurse holding unusual objects in a…

In the 1990s, from certain corners of the indie music landscape writ large, there cropped up a strange little genre we’ll just call “shitty country”:…

In 1991 the British comedy program French and Saunders showed an amusing sketch that involved several prominent British rock musicians, including David Gilmour of Pink…

Photo by Kate Simon. One chilly day in January 1979, Lou Reed and John Cale visited the music station WPIX in New York City, Reed…

In 1993 Steve Albini published a memorable screed with the title “The Problem with Music,” in which he detailed–in excruciating detail–how the economics of making…

In the early 1980s, cable TV was an important and marvelous new development for Young America. For one thing, MTV was on it. But there…

DEVO mainstay Mark Mothersbaugh is taking part in an group exhibition dedicated to “Pure Joy” that starts at the end of the month. Curated by…

Around the time that he became an authentic jazz superstar in the mid-1960s, Charles Mingus became obsessed about avoiding exploitation at the hands of “distributors…