It was 1981, and looking to soak up some revolutionary–and authentically countercultural–inspiration, The Clash recorded what would become their fifth album, Combat Rock in Frestonia,”…
This Is The Moody Blues is one of those almost mythical greatest hits albums from the 60s or 70s where every single cut was killer,…
In this truly ridiculous–and yet truly true–holiday PSA from the Seattle Police Department, a 73-year-old man who was stopped by a patrolman for not having…
‘Syphilis: L’Hecatombe’ (“The Mass Slaughter of Syphilis”) by Louis Raemaekers, 1922. Dutch soldiers returning home from the front with “The French Pox” caused a massive…
Although back home in New Zealand–and Australia–Split Enz are YUGE, and agreed upon by all as THE seminal Kiwi pop act, everywhere else they’d be…
When I was a boy, Fleetwood Mac were “the enemy.” I just hated their soft “stadium rock” and you simply could not escape them on…
John Gavanti is a No Wave “operetta” conceived of by Sumner Crane of Mars and realized–as sort of a “free jazz” improvisation with Crane calling…