The night John Waters met Nico: “Where can I get some heroin?”
The conversation was as strange as you’d expect.
Music Archives: 08/2025
Tony Coca-Cola and the Roosters, the fake punk band that hijacked The Driller Killer
The wild fake band in Abel Ferrara’s slasher.
Deee-Lite: the queer, funky weirdos who briefly ruled pop
A radical mix of vintage funk, queer aesthetics, and downtown rebellion.
‘The Catherine Wheel’: David Byrne’s criminally underrated funk opera masterpiece
It might be better than any Talking Heads album
Neil Innes, the ‘Seventh Python’, and his brilliant ode to idiocy
Neil Innes mastered the art of being brilliant and ridiculous.
The “forgotten” Genesis album recorded when they were still teenagers in school
Genesis recorded this baroque pop oddity in 1969.
‘Innocence & Despair’: 1970s school kids sing David Bowie, The Beatles, and The Beach Boys
Rock classics somehow hit harder than the originals.
The awkward night Joy Division met William S Burroughs—and Ian Curtis was told to fuck off
A cold meeting between Ian Curtis and his idol.
Rotary Connection: The psychedelic soulsters who turned down Woodstock
Rotary Connection made soul music for another planet.
‘Mah Nà Mah Nà’: The song famous by The Muppets was originally from a 1968 Italian softcore sex film
‘Mah Nà Mah Nà’ was written for an Italian sexploitation film.