Month: January 2016
BEFORE PUNK ROCK THERE WERE THE TROGGS!
BY: AMY HABEN I remember buying the single of “Wild Thing” as a teen, from some discount bin...
JAMES WILLIAMSON ON WORLD CAFE-NPR
James Williamson was a guest on World Cafe on NPR in 2014 promoting Relicked. You can listen to it out here.
FOUND PHOTOS OF MOD GIRLS FROM THE 60s – PART THREE
PLEASE KILL ME’S FOUND PHOTOS All Images © 2015 Gillian McCain PART 1 is HERE PART 2 is...
PUNK MAGAZINE 40th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT IN NYC AT HOWL!
Punk Magazine's first issue, Punk #1, was published in January 1976. It has been reprinted for this exhibit 40 years later.
THE TRIALS THAT FORMED THE MAN NICKNAMED “ROTTEN!”
JOHNNY ROTTEN - By Amy Haben - The incredulous John Lydon has really done something tons of people are too scared to try their whole lives-- face their fears. He jumped onstage as a young man knowing he may fail. He wasn't a trained musician, just a lower class thug with a penchant for enlisting shock and horror on the conservatives and shaking up the ABBA loving population.
DRAGON LADIES: A TREASURE TROVE OF PHOTOS OF STRIPTEASERS FROM THE EIGHTIES
BY LISA JANSSEN Tyler Hubby, an editor and director of the highly anticipated Tony Conrad documentary lives around the...
THE GOSPEL OF BOB DYLAN
It’s been said that it happened in a Tucson hotel room in 1978, when Jesus first visited Bob Dylan. Dylan later said that he “sensed a presence in the room that couldn’t have been anybody but Jesus…the glory of the Lord knocked me down and picked me up.”
DAVID BOWIE IS: ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO!
The first object on view is the iconic Tokyo Pop, the snap-off break-away sculptural monochrome vinyl jumpsuit with bright red lining by Kansai. It was shown with the famous red patent leather platform boots, now scuffed and worn. I gazed upon this, quivering for at least 30 minutes
FRENCH MEDAL BESTOWED UPON JOE DALLESANDRO!
Photo: Joe Dallesandro still from Andy Warhol’s film, ‘Trash.’ Congrats to Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro! We found out...
KLAUS NOMI – RIDING THE NEW WAVE!
by Madeline Bocaro The transitional period between decades is always highly charged with the excitement of things to...
BEFORE THE STOOGES, IGGY WAS IN THE PRIME MOVERS!
A 19 year old James Osterberg drumming for the Ann Arbor blues band The Prime Movers in 1966...
BOWIE HANGING AT THE MUDD CLUB WITH DANNY FIELDS
Linda Stein, Debby Harry, David Bowie and Danny Fields at the Mudd Club.
FAVORITE BOWIE SONGS & TRIBUTE FROM SPACE!
My favorite David Bowie tracks, compiled as I sit here pondering the vast void left in the universe...