Books

Sub Pop is one of the most important and influential American record labels. Started in 1988 by Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt, and based in…

There’s a fellow out there named Todd Alcott who has put together an enchanting series of prints reimagining popular songs by some of the most…

Forty years ago, the ink was still wet on Bomp! Records’ deal with a South Bay punk band called Panic. Several months would elapse before…

Cover illustration by Daniel Nayeri Stories for Ways and Means is a new book that features original “grown up” children’s story collaborations by some of…

We all know what Dracula looks like. Bela Lugosi and innumerable Hammer horror movies starring Christopher Lee have fixed the Count in our imagination. He’s…

Big Star’s original lineup. L-R: Andy Hummel, Chris Bell, Alex Chilton, and Jody Stephens. Being a big fan of Big Star, I was excited to…

Talk Talk Vol. 3, No. 6, cover art by William S. Burroughs The Lawrence, Kansas label Fresh Sounds had a long-standing relationship with William S.…

Photo shoot for the Guided By Voices album ‘Sandbox,’ 1987. (Courtesy: Robert Pollard) Robert Pollard, majordomo for Guided By Voices and a host of other…

‘The cross took the form of a crossbow, with Christ as the arrow…’ The interview with Philip K. Dick embedded below, recorded in Santa Ana…

At the height of Bond-mania during the Cold War in the 1960s, some sixty applications arrived every week at the desk of Lieut.-Col. William (“Bill”)…