A merry Iggy Pop talks drugs, blood, and Bowie in obscure 1980s TV profile
The other day I came across an entertaining Iggy TV segment from the ‘80s that I had never seen before. The clip had recently been…
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The Gun Club, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Joe Strummer on ‘Art Fein’s Poker Party’
Art Fein, Bull Moose Jackson and Paul Body, 1985 (via Another Fein Mess) You know what they say: “Ain’t no YouTube rabbit hole like an…
Exercise with Iggy Pop and Nash the Slash on cable TV, 1982
All these years listening to Iggy Pop’s 2 Record Set—the brilliant New Values LP plus bits of Soldier and Party—I just assumed Iggy was singing…
Comedy God Rik Mayall talks ‘The Young Ones’ with co-writer Ben Elton from 1985
Has God seemed distant recently? Does He no longer return your calls? Did He forget your birthday? Does He no longer go down on you?…
‘Hey, Hey we’re the Grungies’: Pitch-perfect ‘Ben Stiller Show’ sketch skewers 1990s Seattle
As the son of Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller–both alums of Second City–Ben Stiller was an early inheritor of the improv tradition that today is…
‘Benji Takes a Dive’: Watch America’s favorite canine become the first dog to scuba dive
Dogs have done some pretty stupid shit for our entertainment. Toto, Air Bud, Beethoven, Lassie, Spuds Mackenzie–they may have been famous film and TV canines,…
Serge Gainsbourg’s pop art science-fiction cartoon ‘Marie Mathématique’
Incroyable! Hosting the legendary French pop show Dim Dam Dom in 1965, Sandie Shaw introduces the first installment of “Marie Mathématique,” an animated short made…
Watch Bob Dylan’s seldom-seem ‘Hard Rain’ TV concert, and the better version that was shelved
When Hard Rain, Bob Dylan’s much ballyhooed NBC TV special aired on September 14, 1976, I was nine years old. I’d “discovered” Dylan earlier that…
‘I did one and I’ll never do it again’: Tom Waits’ dog food commercial
Tom Waits is in some sense the poster boy for the notion of willful independence from the clutches of corporations tempting musical artists with advertising…
Penderecki’s ‘The Devils of Loudun’ is the sleaziest, most depraved opera you’ll ever see
Obtaining the original cut of Ken Russell’s The Devils is still a royal pain in the ass. But it’s easy to see this gorgeous TV…