Mike Kelley fronts Sonic Youth, 1986
The first time I visited New York’s SoHo district in 1992 I remember seeing a large print of the cover art for Sonic Youth’s Dirty…
Music Archives: 12/2014
Psychotic Reaction: The *third* best live footage of The Cramps you’ll ever see!
Earlier this year I posted what I described as the “second best” Cramps footage out there and owing to the reaction, I think that many…
Hablar mucho: Talk Talk live in Spain, 1986
The evolution of Talk Talk was probably the greatest New Wave story every told. That journey, from their beginnings as purveyors of slightly more sophisticated…
‘The Beatles Never Existed’ is the greatest, weirdest Beatles conspiracy theory of all time
You think you know the truth about The Beatles? I laugh at your ignorance! Perhaps you naively proclaim that “Paul is dead!” but you have…
Johnny Cash at San Quentin: Ten newly released photos
1968’s Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison is surely one of the greatest live albums of all time, but just about a year later, Cash recorded…
Scatman Crothers scats ‘Stanley (Does It All),’ a ditty he wrote about Kubrick
One of the best things about being Stanley Kubrick would be that people like Scatman Crothers, who played Dick Hallorann in The Shining, would just…
Hawkwind’s ‘Galactic Tarot’ deck, 1971
A couple of weeks ago Arthur’s Jay Babcock tweeted that he had stumbled upon a fascinating two-page Hawkwind spread while “trolling thru the online International…
Fascist groove thang: Mussolini’s granddaughter recorded a disco number, 1982
Before she went into politics, Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of Il Duce and the niece of Sophia Loren, had a short-lived disco career in Japan.…