Every review you’ve read of the new Roger Waters album is wrong (except for this one)
Last Friday, June 2, I spent the entire day checking the mail. I’d preordered the new Roger Waters album–his first album of original rock material…
Politics
William S. Burroughs’ answer to the Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save the Queen’
The author at home It’s the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen,” and you know what that means: it’s the 40th…
Who said it: Glenn Danzig or a Fox News pundit?
When I saw Danzig play the Ritz in 1989 (with White Zombie opening), it didn’t cross my mind that I’d be writing about Glenn Danzig’s…
Hear a full confession from Tricky Dick on the novelty single ‘The Altered Nixon Speech,’ 1973
(via Syntonic Research Irv Teibel Archive) The immediate ancestor of the “Rappin’ Ronnie” record was The Altered Nixon Speech, a one-minute tape collage made from…
There’s a Donald Trump pencil holder that can also be turned into a Trump ‘human centipede’
A few years ago I blogged about the Donald Trump buttplug that was selling for $27.99 here. Now I’m blogging about the Donald Trump pencil…
Incredible photos of the Viet Cong and their allies during the Vietnam War
A Viet Cong guerrilla stands guard at the Mekong Delta, 1973. The photograph shows a young woman standing guard on the banks of the Mekong…
The anti-communist, anti-capitalist satirical collages of hobo artist Ion Bârlădeanu
Romanian artist Ion Bârlădeanu was making collages for twenty years before the art world got hip to his work in 2007. Suddenly Bârlădeanu was supposed…
Someone made a claymation of the alleged ‘Donald Trump Pee Tape’
Some would say that all art is political. Living through historically “interesting times” (in the sense of the famous Chinese curse) has long been seen…
Make America Misogynistic Again: Artist puts actual Trump quotes on vintage sexist magazine ads
There’s really not much to say here. The images speak for themselves. The artist who made these simply goes by “Saint Hoax.” I removed the…
Stirring images of two decades of political protest in New York City
Pro-Sandinista rally, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, June 1979 Photographer: David Gonzalez Clearly the election of Donald Trump has revived interest in mass protest among the rank…