Music Archives: 03/2017

When Anthology Recordings’s ace publicist Jess Rotter asked me if we wanted to premiere something from the label’s upcoming Australian 70s folk-rock compilation Follow the…

Show Me Your Soul: The Soul Train Years is a 2013 documentary produced for French television by filmmaker Pascal Forneri (who also directed the critically-acclaimed…

An early shot of Judas Priest before all the leather and studs. The answer to that question is quite possibly, yes. The vintage footage posted…

Photo by Kate Simon. One chilly day in January 1979, Lou Reed and John Cale visited the music station WPIX in New York City, Reed…

In 1993 Steve Albini published a memorable screed with the title “The Problem with Music,” in which he detailed–in excruciating detail–how the economics of making…

Imagine, if you can, a country starkly divided by wealth inequality, where a small number of rich people lead lives of extravagant luxury and everyone…

It was fifty years ago this week that the future began with the Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol, and his banana. The destruction and rebuilding of…

DEVO mainstay Mark Mothersbaugh is taking part in an group exhibition dedicated to “Pure Joy” that starts at the end of the month. Curated by…

Around the time that he became an authentic jazz superstar in the mid-1960s, Charles Mingus became obsessed about avoiding exploitation at the hands of “distributors…

Bob Marley playing football backstage in 1979. I love soccer. That’s all I ever watch. I’ll watch it all day if I can. But I’m…