‘Dog Breath in the Year of the Plague’: A fanboy’s appreciation of Frank Zappa’s ‘Uncle Meat’
It was listening to the Dr. Demento radio show at some point in the 1970s—probably 1976—where I first heard three artists I would come to…
Music Archives: 01/2017
Jumping jack dancing ‘puppets’ of Klaus Nomi, David Byrne, Kathleen Hanna & many more
Klaus Nomi I’ve blogged about Sean Bright‘s fun pop-up cards featuring Roxy Music, Delia Derbyshire, Grandmaster Flash, De La Soul, and many other pop culture…
Missing Foundation, the long-lost industrial rockers who almost destroyed New York City
“And when people feel the economic crunch & you can’t have the life that others have–you get dangerous.” –Missing Foundation graffiti. Shortly before the Disneyfication…
A Sex Pistol is born: Take a look inside ‘The Sid Vicious Family Album’
An eighteen-year-old John Simon Ritchie (aka ‘Sid Vicious’) taken at Hackney Technical College in 1975. The photo is featured in the 1980 book, ‘The Sid…
Massive heavy metal murals of Lemmy, Dio, Alice Cooper and more on buildings in Bulgaria
A huge mural of Motörhead vocalist, Lemmy Kilmister on the side of an apartment building in Kavarna, Bulgaria. Photo by Bob Ramsak. Fittingly adjacent to…
Like the ‘Wicker Man’ on heroin: Nico and a young Iggy Pop in ‘Evening of Light,’ 1969
Promo video for Nico’s “Evening of Light” directed by François De Menil in 1969, but probably finished much later. There was a tantalizingly brief clip…
‘It’s fun to smoke dust!’ Satanic panic preacher gets mashed-up with Queen
From renown mashup artist, DJ Lobsterdust, comes this brilliant ode to 1980s Satanic Panic hysteria over “backward masking,” a process which many preachers insisted was…
Modern love: Valentines featuring Grace Jones, Robert Smith, David Bowie & other pop-culture icons!
Robert Smith-themed Valentine by Matthew Lineham. We’ve shared the work of New York-based artist Matthew Lineham previously on Dangerous Minds and I can personally vouch…
The soundtrack to cult comedy horror classic ‘Basket Case’ is finally being released—a DM premiere
“The sickest movie I’ve ever seen!” –Rex Reed Basket Case is an ultra-gory low-budget horror comedy. Written and directed by indie filmmaker Frank Henenlotter, this…
The crazed death disco of Germany’s Warning, the scariest band you’ve never heard of
The early 80s was prime time for scary music. Blame it on Reagan and his itchy nuclear trigger finger, but in its darkest corners, rock…