Punk mystery solved: the face in the Discharge logo is Mark Stewart of the Pop Group
One item you might have missed in the neverending news tsunami of the past couple years: the quadrisected, photocopied face in the Discharge logo belongs…
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Pop Making Sense: Brian McDonald’s fabulous mixed media art
‘Mother’s Little Helper.’ Like. Love. Ha-Ha. Tweet. Share. Post. Walk. Don’t Walk. Keep to the left. Turn clockwise. Open lid carefully. Mind the gap. Wash…
David Lynch’s memorably pointless comic strip ‘The Angriest Dog in the World’
It was hiding in plain sight, and yet it was almost designed not to be noticed at all. For several years from the mid-1980s to…
Short-lived, almost-forgotten satire mag ‘Americana’ took a shiv to FDR’s America
We think of the era of below-the-belt satirical media with a left-wing edge as a thing that was more or less invented in the postwar…
In their own write: Fonts made from the handwriting of David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon & more
For some, the first step towards a chosen career is imitation. Peter Capaldi is a fan of the great horror actor (and big screen Doctor…
William S. Burroughs on the cut-up technique and meeting Samuel Beckett & Bob Dylan
“It’s the stink of death, citizens!” (Photo by Peter Hujar) This hour-long BBC Radio special opens with “Old Lady Sloan,” the Mortal Micronotz’ interpretation of…
(S)explicit collages subvert social media censorship of the right to bare flesh
America’s weird. Use a military grade weapon to slaughter a classroom of school kids and there won’t be no handgun ban. Post a nipple on…
A lonely planet full of isolated unhappy souls: One man’s potent takedown of ‘antisocial’ media
When Facebook switched on just over a decade ago, a friend described the shiny, newly minted social media platform as being like a great big…
Ho ho ho! Here’s Andy Warhol as Santa and Truman Capote with a lollipop on the cover of High Times
It won’t surprise anyone to learn that the December 1978 issue of High Times went with a holiday theme. More surprising might be the identity…
Patti Smith would have been stoked to pose nude in Playboy
Patti never made the Playboy scene, but she was a CREEM Dream at some point in the late 70s Bebe Buell was one of the…