Sun Ra’s ‘Happy New Year to You’ doowop single (and a Christmas song too!)
Sun Ra had his share of offbeat and amusing records–his Batman and Robin album and his limbo album spring to mind as typical (atypical?) Sun…
Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 12/2017
Songs Santa Claus Taught Us: Download the Christmas mix tape compiled by Lux Interior of the Cramps
The story goes that Lux Interior of the Cramps was an inveterate maker of cassette mixes for his friends. (CD mixes, much less online playlists,…
Andy Warhol and Nico dressed up as Batman and Robin, 1966
Seriously, the wealth of batty–pun intended–images from the 1960s never ceases to amaze me. Here we have the foremost pop artist of the era and…
Ho ho ho! Here’s Andy Warhol as Santa and Truman Capote with a lollipop on the cover of High Times
It won’t surprise anyone to learn that the December 1978 issue of High Times went with a holiday theme. More surprising might be the identity…
This Busta Rhymes/Cookie Monster video is what America needs right now
YouTube user Mylo the Cat aka isthishowyougoviral aka Adam Schleichkorn brings us the Muppets-rap mashup we didn’t know we’ve been waiting for–a lengthy montage of…
‘The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook’: Useful guide to your white lines is the most ’70s thing ever
The heyday of cocaine in our nation’s history was arguably the late 1970s through the early 1980s. In the summer of 1980 Richard Pryor set…