Robyn Hitchcock and Graham Coxon cover Syd Barrett’s ‘Octopus’ for new Philip K. Dick TV series
Right now Channel 4 in the U.K. is running Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams–U.S. viewers will be able to see it once it gets on…
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‘The KKK Took My Baby Away’: The Ramones on ‘The Tomorrow Show,’ 1981
Tom Snyder’s late-night talkfest The Tomorrow Show was one of the more reliable sources of stimulating programming in the 1970s and early 80s. Snyder was…
Brian Wilson’s haunting rendition of ‘Surf’s Up’ is just one highlight of this amazing 1967 pop doc
On April 25, 1967, CBS ran a special documentary that had been put together by David Oppenheim called Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution. The program…
Space-rock legend Fumio Miyashita does something amazing on Los Angeles cable access, 1979
Fumio Miyashita was the leader of one of Japan’s most far out space rock units, The Far East Family Band, which also included the future…
Andy Kaufman played an android butler in the little-known 1977 sci-fi sitcom pilot, ‘Stick Around’
On May 30th, 1977, ABC aired the pilot for a sci-fi sitcom called Stick Around. The program starred Andy Kaufman as “Andy,” an android servant…
Salvador Dalí goes in search of a psychedelic mushroom in ‘Impressions of Upper Mongolia’
Salvador Dali, ‘Impressions of Africa’ (1938) The rambling plot of the movie Salvador Dalí made for West German public TV in 1976, Impressions of Upper…
‘Who ate my pie?’ David Byrne plays boorish, mustachioed, pie-loving drunk on PBS sitcom
The first episode of the PBS anthology series Trying Times (originally called Survival Guide) was directed by Jonathan Demme. “A Family Tree” stars Rosanna Arquette…
‘Morrissey Rides a Cockhorse’: The Warlock Pinchers hate Moz, but love them some Satan
I first discovered the Warlock Pinchers while working at a record store in East LA. Buried among the piles of LPs that circulated through the…
Adam Ant, John Cale, Ad-Rock and others guest star on ’80s crime drama ‘The Equalizer’
Edward Woodward and Adam Ant on the cover of Ant News Today, 1985 The Equalizer was a crime drama starring Edward Woodward (The Wicker Man‘s…
‘The Modern Antiquarian’: Julian Cope’s guided tour of the megaliths of Britain
Sure, everyone knows about Stonehenge, but it might not be quite as widely known that stone rings and megaliths dating back several thousand years, well…