A merry Iggy Pop talks drugs, blood, and Bowie in obscure 1980s TV profile
The other day I came across an entertaining Iggy TV segment from the ‘80s that I had never seen before. The clip had recently been…
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For an unbelievable trove of indie/punk bootlegs from the 1980s, the McKenzie Tapes has you covered
Any music fan from the New York City area knows what an important part of the city’s music scene Maxwell’s was, until recently located in…
Big in Japan: Cheesy vintage ads for arcade and video games from the 1980s
That moment in Field of Dreams when Kevin Costner hears a voice saying “If you build it, he will come” was really bad financial advice.…
I was a teenage Goth, Punk, Hesher, Hip-Hop, Raver: Photographs of fashionable youth from the 1980s
The 1980s encapsulated in one photo. If you remember the eighties, you were probably there. Big hair, bad music, and terrible fashion. Or was it…
A Room of Their Own: Teenage bedrooms from the 1980s
When you share a bedroom with a sibling you’re not too bothered about privacy, well, that is until you start growing hair down there or…
‘Silent Scream’: This little-known horror gem led to the explosion of slasher films in the 1980s
Silent Scream is noteworthy as being one of the first slasher films, though it’s largely been forgotten. Made by an aspiring director, Silent Scream was…
Girls just wanna have fun: Teenage fashion of the 1980s
So, this is what Mom wore in the eighties. And maybe you did too. Big hair, teased and permed to perfection, crimped, hot rollered, feathered…
Stop what you’re doing and watch footage of The Cure in Orange in 1986
Some of you reading this may have already had the good fortune to have seen this vintage footage of The Cure performing at the breathtaking…
‘I find them very depressing’: 80s pop tart Samantha Fox reviews The Smiths and The Fall in 1986
Samantha Fox and Lemmy Kilmister. Samantha Fox was technically still a very popular topless Page 3 girl in The Sun and not yet an 80s…
When the drugs were still working: Cheerfully insane footage of the Butthole Surfers backstage, 1986
This laugh-out-loud funny footage of backstage mayhem at a Butthole Surfers show was taped at Atlanta’s 688 Club on February 28 1986. It’s probably one…