Deee-Lite: the queer, funky weirdos who briefly ruled pop
A radical mix of vintage funk, queer aesthetics, and downtown rebellion.
Music
‘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.
George Harrison’s ‘Wonderwall Music’: the Beatles’ first solo album and weirdest one too
An Indian-inspired, genre-bending soundtrack.
Meet Wilma Burgess, country music’s first openly lesbian singer
Here’s how she changed country music from the inside.