The actor who hanged himself on-stage playing Judas in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in 1997
A tragic mistake.
Musical
Seamus: The musical dog that joined Pink Floyd in 1971
Pink Floyd let a dog into the studio during a recording session.
Michael Jackson vs Donny Osmond, the KKK and space aliens in insane new cult musical!! (The Return)
NOTE: This post, written by the late Howie Pyro, was originally published in 2020, when For the Love of a Glove had just opened. It’s…
Laraaji returns: New Age musical royalty gets back to his roots with ‘Sun Piano’
Portrait of Laraaji by Daniel Oduntan Back in 2018, before he released his elaborate and ornate Rare Birds album, my pal Jonathan Wilson told me…
Michael Jackson vs Donny Osmond, the KKK and space aliens in insane new cult musical!!
Julien Nitzberg. Shit-stirrer, rebel director, artist, punk rocker and genius are some titles bestowed on this forward-thinking, back-slapping smart-ass. You might know him from his…
The thrilling conclusion of Andrew Liles’ 42-hour musical work, ‘Colossus’
Andrew Liles by Davide Pepe Hic Rhodus, hic saltus! —Aesop (via Erasmus) Andrei Tarkovsky called his art “sculpting in time,” but Stalker has the brisk…
The 1996 high school musical based on KISS’s disastrous 1981 concept album, ‘Music From ‘The Elder”
By 1981, KISS was on the ropes. Due to a number of factors, including the release of two pop-oriented albums, the group had alienated much…
Vincent Price narrates a musical journey to the amazing year 2000
Magazine ad for the 1962 World’s Fair The June 23, 1962 issue of Billboard reported that Capitol would be distributing “the Seattle World’s Fair official…
The Apprehension Engine: The most terrifying musical instrument of all time
I recently fell down a rabbit-hole of “unusual musical instrument” videos while doing some research on aquaphones for some indie-horror soundtrack work I’m doing. While…