Music Archives: 11/2015

Cynthia Robinson stood out in a band in which every member stood out. She was a funky high priestess wielding a trumpet like a thaumaturgic…

Model, painter, disco diva, TV personality and the absolute fiercest of the pioneering transsexuals (along with Candy Darling), Amanda Lear was born Alain Maurice Louis…

One Sunday afternoon in Fall of 1989 I was walking around Greenwich Village and I popped into Bleecker Bob’s record store to see if my…

A Sanford, Florida police officer was relieved of duty after video surfaced this week of him singing, while uniformed, onstage with death metal band Vital…

Nina Simone blanket can be found here. I never know what to get people during the holidays. The Holiday season is stressful. I worry that…

Already famous in hip-hop circles as the DJ in Stetsasonic, Prince Paul was much in demand as a producer after he worked on De La…

This is totally a one-note joke, but it could also be argued that Diamond Dave is a one-note singer. YouTube user and goddamned genius Jim…

When he was just 24–and newly very rich and very famous–Neil Young bought Broken Arrow Ranch, the sprawling Northern California property purchased in 1970 for…

Kurt Cobain wearing his famous sweater on MTV: Unplugged, 1993 The sweater worn by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana’s 1993’s MTV: Unplugged performance sold at an…

Julien’s calls itself “The Auction House to the Stars,” and not without reason—an auction they’re holding this week, “Icons and Idols 2015: Rock n’ Roll,”…