Our incredibly intuitive resident futurist muses on what’s crackin’ in pop
culture.
Beck’s “Girl” video In the second video for Beck&#
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Photo by Kevin Scanlon
Beware: High on Fire ain’t here to rinse your nylons. The Bay Area
band play the darkest, sludg-iest riff-rock in all of hell. So itR
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Photo by Noah Georgeson
An honest discussion about songwriter Joanna Newsom has to start with her voice. Its freakishness brings to mind Tiny Tim (large frame
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Ray Charles did not seem happy to be dead. Mouth closed, of course, no big teeth flashing out, he looked waxy and diminished, not (as people think corpses shou
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Worlds collided at the Strip’s last cock-rock redoubt, the RAINBOW, where the loft bar hosted a listening junket for the debut album from rock-royalty supa-dupa gr
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Singer–actor–wrestling promoter– horror archivist–porn producer Johnny Legend exists in a bizarre cultural vortex whose undertows perpetuall
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Photo by Larry Hirshowitz
Pop in the Playhouse:
Gwendolyn gives the whole weird world
Perhaps her hippie parentage explains it all. The genre in which singer-guita
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Wayne Coyne’s on a roll, and apparently enjoying the hell out of it. The choirboyish singer and guiding light behind the Flaming Lips — crafters of perh
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Last time Chris Dreja toured the U.S. with the Yardbirds, people were marching in the streets against the war in Vietnam, and American garage bands like the Co
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Images of the wreckage. New Age music‘s peaceful thrum. Pathos builds. Cue voice-over: ”In the wake of 911 . . .“ You throw your Percocet and whisk
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In this post-postmodern era, it seems trite to observe that no music or musician is truly lost to history. Who’d have thought that, 17 years after his de
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Photo by Michael AckermanDealing with emotion has never been electronic music’s strong suit. When Kraftwerk sang, “Fun fun fun on the Autobahn,” th
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