When Brigid Berlin (a.k.a. Brigid Polk) died last Friday, we lost one of the last connections to New York City's 1960s underground film and art scenes. A major ...
The subtitle to Remain in Love, the new memoir by Chris Frantz, is “Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina”. He was the co-founder and drummer for the first named ba...
When monologist-actor-writer-philosopher Spalding Gray departed this planet in 2004, he left behind timeless works like Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box a...
A hot new single, 'Mystery Writers,' by Divine Horsemen arrives this Friday. Chris “D” Desjardins, formerly of L.A. punk band the Flesh Eaters, reunites with Ju...
Soul Asylum was part of a contingent of Minneapolis bands, with the Replacements and Hüsker Dü, that altered the rock & roll landscape. Founding member Dave...
Brooklyn native Michael Alago was one of the good guys in the corporate music industry. As an A&R executive for Elektra Records, he didn’t just sign artists...
Catching some wind from the Riot Grrrl Movement but sailing mostly on their own, the all-female trio Slant 6 created a sound—minimalist garage rock influenced b...
In 1987, Nina Antonia published the first book about John Anthony Genzale (aka Johnny Thunders) (1952-1991). It was a time when the rock ‘n’ roll establishment ...
Influenced by the Mothers of Invention, Daddy Cool quickly soared to the top of Australia’s charts, then blistered the USA on three tours, supporting Captain Be...
In 1983, when Chris Epting was at Boston’s Emerson College, he produced a cable access TV series on which he interviewed “artists I was crazy about.” High on th...
Jeff Krulik and John Heyn’s 1986 film Heavy Metal Parking Lot has become an unlikely cult classic. In less than 20 minutes, the film—culled from footage taken i...
The punk-era holdouts The Mekons, originally from the UK but now scattered worldwide, were set to reunite to record their 23rd album. Then COVID-19 hit, and the...
Art photographer Jamie McLeod was a collaborator with and muse for the megastar Marc Almond (Soft Cell, Marc and the Mambas, solo artist) for 20 years. In that ...
The multi-ethnic South London-based Fat White Family has been called the 'sonic equivalent of society coming unhinged.' Their raucous onslaught is leavened with...
