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Author: Ron Kretsch

Brain-melting video mix documents insane cultural responses to ‘Star Wars’ in the ‘70s and ’80s

Cinefamily has been programming films and events at L.A.’s legendary Silent Movie Theater for almost ten years. They’ve also created deep dive video mixtapes assembled…

Ron Kretsch
Jun 8, 2017

Stoner doom-mongers The Sword recreate Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ in doom metal style

To celebrate 50 years since the August 5, 1967 release of Pink Floyd’s debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Kyle Shutt, the guitarist…

Ron Kretsch
Jun 5, 2017

Spastic Ono Band: Redd Kross’ Beatles/Yoko freak-out DID NOT AMUSE Beatlefest attendees, 1988

When the recent Redd Kross tour passed through my town, a friend asked me if I was going. I couldn’t go (to my regret—everyone who…

Ron Kretsch
May 17, 2017

A Beatles fan is hunting down all the original photos from the ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ cover

It’s obvious almost to the point of tedium to point out that the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, along with all of its…

Ron Kretsch
May 8, 2017

‘Sifter’: Round Eye talks to Dangerous Minds about shooting their video in North Korea

As a band of American expats (and one Italian) living in Shanghai, the pre-emptively named prog-punk band Round Eye get opportunities that most bands would…

Ron Kretsch
May 5, 2017

‘My God, ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ was so fruity’: George Harrison dishes Beatle dirt, 1977

At the end of 1976, George Harrison released Thirty Three & 1/3, a return to form after a few moribund years in the mid-‘70s—even critics…

Ron Kretsch
May 2, 2017

New witchcraft museum features occult artifacts once owned by Aleister Crowley

Any discussion of Wicca in America must begin with Raymond Buckland. A disciple and correspondent of English Wicca’s acknowledged father Gerald Gardner, Buckland established America’s…

Ron Kretsch
Apr 28, 2017

Iggy Bop? New music from the godfather of punk on his 70th birthday—with a jazz trio!

James “Iggy Pop” Osterberg is one of a handful of figures who need zero introduction to Dangerous Minds’ readers. Not just a godfather of punk…

Ron Kretsch
Apr 21, 2017

’Sãeta’: Nico live in Europe, 1983

Few albums have been, completely by accident, so aptly titled as Nico’s The Drama of Exile. Its recording and release history is convoluted and rife…

Ron Kretsch
Apr 7, 2017

‘Acoustic KO’: Stooges classics stripped down by James Williamson and Radio Birdman’s Deniz Tek

Though he achieved his greatest notoriety as the founder of Australia’s punk progenitors Radio Birdman, Deniz Tek is a Detroit kid—no surprise, as guttural guitar…

Ron Kretsch
Mar 27, 2017

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