Music Archives: 11/2017

Imagine deciding to execute your own tarot deck using the photographic arts. Not just the 22 cards of the Major Arcana, mind you, but the…

With seemingly every single article written about him for the better part of the past two decades declaring Luke Haines “underappreciated” or referring to him…

via Sunset Gunshots I thought I had long ago digested every crumb of gossip about the Beach Boys-Manson family connection, but one of the Charlie…

I’ve been a fan of ‘70s funk priestess Betty Davis since a friend played me her sophomore long-player, 1974’s They Say I’m Different, in the…

A year to the day in the making, Tim Heidecker’s Donald Trump protest numbers have been collected together as a new album Too Dumb For…

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…

Shirley Temple, “America’s Sweetheart,” on the cover of the sheet music for “On the Good Ship Lollipop,” which sold over 400,000 copies in its day.…

How to stay relevant. It’s a question we all face at some point in life. Mick Jagger was thinking about staying relevant. It was 1983.…

If you’re anything like me—and since you clicked on this to begin with I’d expect there are decent enough odds that you’re more or less…

In January 1977 the Ramones released album number two, entitled Leave Home. It was another high-quality slab of straight-ahead punk in the acknowledged Ramones style.…