Happy birthday Les Blank: Werner Herzog eats his shoe!
The master documentarian Les Blank turned 75 today, and there’s no shortage of his films to recommend, including The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins, Hot…
Author: Ron Nachmann
Articles by Author: Ron Nachmann
What the Future Sounded Like: the story of Electronic Music Studios
“Think of a sound—now make it.” Here is a very cool doc by Ian Collie about London’s Electronic Music Studios, the pioneering synthesizer company formed…
Rock against repression: Gal Costa, “Milho Verde” and the banning of India
Brazilian singer and birthday girl Gal Costa started her career during the Costa e Silva and Médici military juntas in Brazil, and from the top…
Say hello to the face of dopey wannabe-fascism
Yes, talk on the white Right about “camps” and “guns” should send a shiver up my spine as a Jew (whose father spent time in…
Birthday Boy Aldous Huxley Meets Mike Wallace, Late Night 1958
Aldous Huxley—English writer, humanist, early-modern psychedelic advocate and original dangerous mind—would have turned 116 years old today. In May 1958, five years after his first…
Cleveland’s Black Rock Legacy: Purple Image
Today’s resurgence in black rock and Afro-punk has been accompanied by a boosted interest in obscure post-Hendrix black rock from the late ‘60s and early…
Aliens, bleeding walls and too many cops: The amazing public light art of Madrid’s luzinterrup
The global metropolis is seeing a golden age of street art nowadays, as seen in the evolution from spraycan through stencil/wheatpaste and on to other…
For Neda: Death to Fascism in Iran and Worldwide
Opposition leaders in Iran have called off demonstrations on the anniversary of the contested June 11 2009 national election that led to the unrest that…