Was Groucho Marx’s famous anthem ‘Hooray for Captain Spaulding’ actually a celebration of cocaine?
Rule of thumb, the earlier a Marx Brothers movie was made, the better it probably is. The initial impulse of the brothers’ manic energy and…
Music Archives: 02/2017
The Black Metal Antiquarium is the Internet K-hole of teen metal mayhem
You’ve seen it everywhere. The crudely-drawn goat that graces the cover of the first Bathory album is quickly becoming one of rock n’ roll’s most…
Bizarre video of the Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’ from Soviet TV of the 1970s
The Beatles were big enough that even the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had to deal with it, somehow. In 1976 Soviet-controlled TV–the only available…
Go back in time to when Led Zeppelin & Alice Cooper shared the stage at the Whisky a Go Go, 1969
A show poster for a series of live gigs at the Whisky A Go Go featuring Led Zeppelin and Alice Cooper, January 1969. Beginning on…
The Stranglers’ secret recordings as Celia and the Mutations, 1977
During the summer of ’77, the new wave band Celia and the Mutations released its first single, an update of Tommy James and the Shondells’…
Deconstructing Positive K’s 1992 hip hop anthem ‘I Got a Man’
Bronx’s Darryl Gibson (better known as rapper Positive K) made the scene in 1989 with “I’m Not Havin’ It,” a duet with hip-hop’s pioneer feminist…