Joe Coleman on Captain Beefheart, GG Allin and blowing himself up
Austrian writer Clemens Marschall’s Avant-Garde from Below: Transgressive Performance from Iggy Pop to Joe Coleman and GG Allin (distributed in the US by Last Gasp)…
Art Archives: 04/2016
Stained glass windows of Aleister Crowley, Serge Gainsbourg, Johnny Cash, JG Ballard & many more
In 2010 and 2011 the English artist Neal Fox executed an utterly gorgeous series of stained-glass windows in imitation of the iconography of saints found…
Captain Beefheart meets David Lynch in ‘Some YoYo Stuff’
In the early 1990s Anton Corbijn made a peculiar short movie called “Some YoYo Stuff” featuring Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart. The movie is…
Around the world with Modesty Blaise, ‘England’s fabulous, feminine answer to James Bond’
Doubleday hardcover, 1965 The 1960s were rife with super-duper-glamorous spies, weren’t they? James Bond was one of the earliest and also the best-known. Ian Fleming…
Street art homages to Frank Zappa, Lemmy, David Bowie, Bon Scott, Ian Curtis & more
A massive mural of Frank Zappa under a bridge in London by artists James Mayle and Leigh Drummond. I recently came across images of some…
Killer silhouettes of 80s VHS horror movie box art
The excellent recent documentary The Nightmare examines the topic of sleep paralysis, a condition which causes terrifying waking hallucinations in its victims. Many of the…
‘The Devil’s Reign’: Demonic art exhibit curated by Church of Satan’s High Priest
Pale Horse, “Through the Gateway,” screenprint Peter H. Gilmore has long been among the world’s leading authorities on LaVeyan Satanism. An author of countless works…