Author: Richard Metzger Archives: 07/2013

Secos e Molhados (“ The Dry & Wet”) was an glam-rock/Tropicália band formed in Brazil in 1971 during the most repressive phase of the military…

For well over a decade, really closer to two, I wasn’t sure that The Telephone Book even existed. I first read about the film in…

Teenager Stanley Kubrick and his camera Stanley Kubrick, the great cinematic genius was born on July 26, 1928, in the Bronx, NY. To mark this…

In an area of Tokyo known as “Foot Town,” a G-rated entertainment neighborhood for tourists, there sits the Tokyo Tower’s Wax Museum, the world’s greatest…

Suzanne Ciani, “the American Delia Derbyshire of the Atari Generation,” explains how synthesizers work on the Children’s Television Workshop PBS TV series 3-2-1 Contact in…

Managing to sound simultaneously authentically retro and yet still very cutting edge at the same time is a neat trick and youthful Aussie psychsters Tame…

Yours truly made a recent appearance on How Sex Changed The World, a colorful, fast-paced new History Channel series. The topic was Aleister Crowley and…

In yesterday’s mail I got a copy of Universal’s newly-released Scott Walker box set, which includes Scott(s) I-IV, ’til The Band Comes In and a…

Marc Almond is one of the truly great interpreters of song of our age. His distinctive voice, like Frank Sinatra’s, is instantly recognizable from the…

It cannot be said that the citizens of Wisconsin didn’t truly get what they asked for when they had a chance to shitcan Republican Governor…