Who said it: Glenn Danzig or a Fox News pundit?
When I saw Danzig play the Ritz in 1989 (with White Zombie opening), it didn’t cross my mind that I’d be writing about Glenn Danzig’s…
Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 05/2017
Honda scooter ads featuring DEVO, Lou Reed, Miles Davis, Grace Jones, and Adam Ant
In the mid-1980s Honda had a series of quite dauntingly cool musicians hawking their scooters. They had particularly playful, sexy commercial in which Adam Ant…
Superfuzz Bigmuff in New York City: Mudhoney rave-up at the Ritz, 1989
Nirvana might have put a hammerlock on the word grunge for the coming aeons of posterity, but to my mind the question “What is the…
High-quality footage of the Cure playing New York City on their first U.S. tour, 1980
The Cure were arresting enough as a band to land its first album Three Imaginary Boys on the U.K. charts in 1979. A year later,…
Read & Burn: Post-punk legends Wire get Cubist (and accidentally inspire Kanye West) live in 2004
An eye, a nose, a mouth, a cup, a bell, a drill……. In 2002, after more than a decade of quiescence, London’s legendary punk group…
The under water adventures of Australia’s most passionate golden showers enthusiast, ‘Troughman’!
It was a night in May 1978 that would change the life of an Australian man named Barry Charles irreversibly. He was 28 at the…
Klark Kent, the punk band that Stewart Copeland of the Police had nothing whatsoever to do with
From 1978 to 1986 the Police were an undeniable musical force, with five classic albums and ten U.K. singles cracking the Top 10. It’s a…
Board game based on John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ looks AMAZING
T-shirt design company Mondo has announced a product it will be releasing for Halloween, and it’s a reeeeeal good one: a board game version of…
DEVO meet William Burroughs: ‘David Bowie would never make an audience shit their pants. We would.’
Marilyn Chambers said no. The star of Behind the Green Door and Insatiable did not consent to participate in one of those two-way interview features…
Acid Mothers Temple’s cover of eerie ‘Twin Peaks’ song to be released next week
The whole world is waiting impatiently for the return of Twin Peaks later this month on Showtime. The original run of Twin Peaks on ABC…