Author: Richard Metzger Archives: 04/2016

Austrian writer Clemens Marschall’s Avant-Garde from Below: Transgressive Performance from Iggy Pop to Joe Coleman and GG Allin (distributed in the US by Last Gasp)…

A kind soul has posted a segment from my old British Disinformation TV series—which was on Channel 4 way back in 2000 and 2001—the one…

The great American blues singer and pianist Victoria Spivey’s long and influential career began as part of her family’s string band which was led by…

The Pretty Things started as blues-rock band in the early 1960s, and they’re often described as being “meaner, louder, uglier and with longer hair” than…

I’ve been fairly unabashed in my praise of Toronto-born rocker Slim Twig. Two of my very most favorite albums of the the past two years…

Although she’s somewhat of an obscure figure today, beautiful Marva Whitney was known as “Soul Sister #1” during her stint in the James Brown Revue…

Mike Oldfield’s 1973 recording of Tubular Bells is the most famous prog rock “symphony” of them all—and a bit of a “love it or hate…

Mario Bava‘s campy 1968 action flick Danger: Diabolik–which stars John Phillip Law and Marisa Mell as a couple of stylish, leather-clad jewel thieves–exists in the…

Please believe me when I tell you that I am in no way pining for the era of the VHS videotape–I lived through it, folks…