Porn, drugs, rock and roll: The story of Les Rita Mitsouko, France’s greatest pop group
Les Rita Mitsouko combined punk pop, porn-star pasts.
Rock
The Ladybirds: the bizarre story of two all-girl topless rock bands
Audacious, controversial, and defying gender norms on stage.
Satan is back with boobs, pubes and heavy rock: “Vintage smut collecting is a solitary path”
This isn’t horror‑camp—it’s delirious subversion.
Revisit for a good time: The Brown Acid series was another slab of stoned-out rock bliss
A playlist to get you through.
The crash of the anvil at the nightclub school: Sheila Rock’s New Romantics
In the ever-evolving tapestry of fashion and youth subcultures, the New Romantics of the 1980s emerged as a vibrant and revolutionary movement. Known for their…
The Electric Prunes’ 4th LP is a rock opera no original members play on—and it’s surprisingly good
In the mid 1960s, the group Jim and the Lords inked a deal with producer Dave Hassinger’s production company. After a name change, the first…
Lucky 13: Stream the latest installment of ‘Brown Acid’ featuring long lost heavy rock from the 1970
There must be some mythical and hidden cache of chukka-chukka hairy hard rock one-offs from the 1970s, because how else to explain that there is…
‘CREEM: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine’ The Movie
If you are a big “rock” fan of a certain age–and American–you almost certainly grew up reading CREEM magazine. I sure did. I loved CREEM.…
Drink, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll: Power pop saviors, the Beat, and their rousing 1980 tour of Europe
Photo: Neil Zlozower Hey, do you know about the Beat? They’re the great power pop band led by Paul Collins, who was in another great…
Your favorite rock ‘n’ roll, country and R&B legends as marionettes
What have you been doing during the COVID-19 Lockdown? Binging on boxsets? Drinking too much? Self-medicating? Finding all your good clothes have shrunk from lack…