The obscure link between Mantan Moreland and the Beastie Boys
A reveal that recontextualizes a cult hip‑hop moment.
Author: Richard Metzger Archives: 07/2025
‘Love Exposure’: The sprawling Japanese cult masterpiece that you need to see before you die
Sin, perversion, cults, and rock‑opera levels of emotional overload.
Porn, drugs, rock and roll: The story of Les Rita Mitsouko, France’s greatest pop group
Les Rita Mitsouko combined punk pop, porn-star pasts.
‘Umano Non Umano’: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards turn up in pretentious Italian art film
Mario Schifano, an Italian pop art painter and collagist who exhibited alongside Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, released this unusual art film, Umano Non Umano…
Someone must’ve spiked Julian Cope’s acid: Personal memories of an artist like no other
“We’ve ceded our world to the idiots”.
The Ladybirds: the bizarre story of two all-girl topless rock bands
Audacious, controversial, and defying gender norms on stage.
Sex, gore, and typography: The lurid world of cult movie posters
Pulp-art madness of vintage cult movie marketing.
Nina Hagen’s ‘NunSexMonkRock’: The weirdest, greatest unsung masterpiece of the post‑punk era
A post‑punk freak‑show.
Keith Richards and ‘Main Offender’: The best Rolling Stones album of the 1990s?
It’s defiantly analogue, defiantly live, and defiantly Keef.
‘Fuego’: The insane story of a raging nymphomaniac recommended by John Waters
Porn melodrama turned queer camp icon.