Gary Coleman, comic books & other disasters: Raging Slab were the assmasters of the 1990s
It sorta all shook out the same way, really. Promising start followed by a long, slow slog to oblivion. While it might’ve been a one-off…
1990s
Dazzling Killmen: Meet the most twisted and punishing math metal group of the 1990s
Last winter, Dangerous Minds told you about Laddio Bolocko, an obscure (but important) art-damaged jazz/rock band of the late ’90s, which itself was the product…
Corporate sales video for Prince’s Paisley Park Studio from the early 1990s
As with any creative superstar, Prince’s career had several distinct phases–the video that makes up the subject of this post comes from an ill-defined stretch…
New York City squatters from the 1990s
“Beer Olympics 1” It’s strange to think of the 1990s as a bygone era, but artist and photographer Ash Thayer’s new book Kill City: Lower…
SST Records try the K-Tel route in this crazy early-1990s TV commercial
This commercial must have been put together around 1990 based on the appearance of e.g. Soundgarden’s Ultramega OK, which came out in late 1988 and…
Janis Ian is NOT politically correct and brilliantly defends her ‘Howard Stern’ appearance, 1994
My love of “AM Gold” is well-documented on this blog, and I defend the soft-rock/easy listening genres of the 1970s as an artistic movement of…