In 1966, the Maoist political faction dubbed "Gang of Four" began to help carry out Mao's disastrous and repressive Cultural Revolution. In 1975, Malcolm McLaren dubbed John Lydon "Rotten", called his band Sex Pistols, and helped launch the UK punk scene. In 1976, Andy
Picking up the sleeve for Cabaret Voltaire’s “Micro-Phonies”, I can’t help but feel like the color scheme is that of a confused gender reveal for a baby. Is it a boy? Is it a girl? Is it a bandaged mummy-like figure with an unidentified liquid drooling from its
Editor’s Note: This is the first Bandcamp Friday feature! These are not solicited or paid reviews—I go digging through Bandcamp’s fresh releases to find something that speaks to me that I wouldn’t have discovered otherwise, buy it, and that’s what ends up here. There’s
In creating this blog, one of my goals was to, weekly, go sifting through the "Discover" function on Bandcamp and find some hidden gems, report back here, and shine a little light (even if it's just illuminating for myself) on some fresh indie tunes. There'
I’m a strong believer that a gorilla costume improves everything. Sci-fi movie? Stick a space helmet on the gorilla and you’ve got a winner. Theater opening? Yes I want to shake hands with Gonga. To paraphrase and bastardize S.J. Perelman, give me an underground lab, a half-dozen
I’ve been a fan of Stephen Prince’s writing about English hauntology for several years, as catalogued through his project A Year in the Country, which examines music, film and media depicting an England haunted by the ghosts of imagined pasts, what-could-have-beens, and wisps of what-might-yet-bes. One can point
Sometimes, I like to think that objects get sad if they don’t serve their intended purpose. A guitar becomes zoo tiger levels of mopey if it gets left in its case. A hammer must hammer nails lest it find itself needing a Lexapro prescription and a round of cognitive