Zappa meets claymation in the wonderful VHS rarity ‘The Amazing Mr. Bickford’
Many Frank Zappa fans will be familiar with the strange and delightful work of animator Bruce Bickford—his are the claymation sequences in Baby Snakes that…
Music Archives: 04/2015
GG Allin had his own ‘Vanity 6 style’ female protégé trio: The Cedar Street Sluts (Obviously NSFW!)
GG Allin and Prince are two artists rarely mentioned in the same breath, but both are responsible for strangely similar, arguably-talented, female protégé off-shoot trio…
Grace Jones wows ’em in Chile 1980
Only Grace Jones would look at home in a blue/teal/peach bodysuit and purple ponytail…. You can’t beat it. Grace Jones is such a likable presence…
‘Jobriath A.D.’: Fantastic documentary on glam rock’s greatest casualty comes to DVD
On April 21st, Jobriath A.D., Kieran Turner’s incredible 2012 documentary on the life of glam rock casualty and gay icon Jobriath, will be released on…
This is Gary McFarland: The Jazz Legend Who Should Have Been A Pop Star
A few months ago, I was on some music geek forum boards and one of the posters mentioned that he’d bought an audiophile download of…
Before he was Hulk Hogan’s manger, Jimmy Hart scored a top five hit with the Gentrys in 1965
Despite the fact that I was a pretty sports-averse youth, growing up in the eighties and nineties, it was basically impossible to avoid having a…