Music Archives: 06/2015

These Mothers is crazy. You can tell by their clothes. One guy wears beads and they all smell bad. We were gonna get them for…

Lucia Pittalis before transformation As RuPaul once said, “You’re born naked and the rest is contour and shading.” And Italian portrait painter and artist Lucia…

This fantastic two-page comic appeared in the British underground magazine Frendz in November 1971. At the start this comic credits Michael Moorcock for the “words”…

Today, June 23, 2015, is Glenn Danzig’s 60th birthday. Danzig, of course was the founding vocalist of the cartoonish New Jersey horror-punk band Misfits and…

I don’t know about you, but as the years go by, I find that I really have to struggle to justify buying a CD or…

There exists a rich musical history of recorded songs about cocaine use dating at least as far back as Victoria Spivey and Lonnie Johnson’s 1927…

I think it was Liza Minnelli’s bright-eyed character Eliza in Albert Finney’s film Charlie Bubbles who noted that all the pleasure in life when collected…

WHOA. Bits and pieces of this excellent show have been floating through the Internet ether for some time, but I’ve never seen all of it,…

Thanks to digital media the line between “rare” and “forget it” has become more like a chasm. The meaning of rarity has changed—it’s kind of…

It was 50 years ago today that one of the truly momentous events in rock history took place when Bob Dylan recorded “Like A Rolling…