Music Archives: 10/2018

Lou Reed and Genya Ravan performing ‘Aye Co’lorado’ at the Bottom Line In 1978, Lou Reed and Genya Ravan appeared on one another’s solo albums.…

Does it get any more Halloween than Roky Erickson? The ex-13th Floor Elevators frontman has been at the center of our Hallows’ Eve playlists since…

As any self-respecting rock fan knows, Jimi Hendrix’s electrifying performance at the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival made him a star. During the years leading…

Every October I try to challenge myself to find a few new spooky songs to add to what I lovingly call my “morbid melodies” collection.…

In August of 1985 San Francisco “cabaret no-wave” heroes Tuxedomoon took part in an interesting evening of entertainment presented by the Hamburg-based television channel NDR…

Lou Miami was a punk rocker from Boston, Massachusetts. His band, the Kozmetix, played around locally, but rarely toured. They were regulars at popular night…

Phantoms crowd the mind. Whether it’s Guy de Maupassant’s Horla—the thing out there—or the barbarous horde conjured by a demagogue, there’s always some chimera troubling…

In the 1980s the BBC used to do this thing every now and then where they would take a day and dedicate like 15 consecutive…

When the legendary comedian Soupy Sales died in 2009, Alice Cooper issued a brief statement through his publicist: Being from Detroit, I came home every…

A lot of people have written sonnets, but nobody in the English language is more associated with the form than William Shakespeare. In 1609 Thomas…