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WARNING: The video featured in today’s vault is definitely NSFW, though it is definitely SFA (safe for awesome). Old lady sentence alert: When I was a teen, music videos mattered enough that the artform went through an interesting renaissance/avant-garde period that resonated throughout popular culture and filmmaking. It was not unusual in the mid- to […]

Author of Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found, Joe Bonomo, looks back at the album that inspired his book fifty years later, with a chance to win a copy of the book signed by Lewis himself. Six years ago, I happily accepted editor David Barker’s invitation to write a book about Jerry Lee Lewis’s Live!

Rounding out Richard Hell Week, in celebration of our newly published 33 1/3 title on Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ Blank Generation by Pete Astor, with the final entry in the Blank Generation abecedary. And if you’re hungry for more, remember that the book is available now! W is for website: http://www.richardhell.com is a fantastic

Welcome back to Richard Hell Week, Abecedary Heads (that’s a thing now). Today is the official release day for #92 in the series, so go snag your copies, kids! And in the meantime, in celebration of our forthcoming 33 1/3 title on Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ Blank Generation, here is volume 4 of author

Welcome back to Richard Hell Week, in celebration of our forthcoming 33 1/3 title on Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ Blank Generation. Here’s Volume 3, aka L to P. L is for Lautréamont, short for the Comte de Lautréamont, pseudonym for the mysterious and doomed Isadore Ducasse, whose Les Chants de Maldoror was a favorite

Welcome back to Richard Hell Week, in celebration of our forthcoming 33 1/3 title on Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ Blank Generation. Author Pete Astor continues with volume 2 of the Blank Generation Abecedary, this time traversing the letters G-K. Take it away, Pete! G is for Genesis : Grasp, Hell’s poetry magazine (run with

Welcome to Richard Hell Week, in celebration of our forthcoming 33 1/3 title on Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ Blank Generation by Pete Astor! Pete is an academic and well-known musician in his own right (Ellis Island Sound, The Loft, The Weather Prophets), so it’s not surprising that an encyclopedic and creative mind like his

Wrapping up our Gang of Four Week, in celebration of our forthcoming 33 1/3 title on Gang of Four’s Entertainment! by Kevin J. H. Dettmar, with a video vault that tries to reconcile the difficulty of assembling GoF in one place. One of the great tragedies of post-punk history is that there’s very little performance

Gang of Four Week, in celebration of our forthcoming 33 1/3 title on Gang of Four’s Entertainment! by Kevin J. H. Dettmar, continues with part two of the essential non-Entertainment!  Gang of Four Tracks. 6.    “Call Me Up” (Songs of the Free, 1982). The opening track of the band’s third album is the first Gang

Gang of Four Week, in celebration of our forthcoming 33 1/3 title on Gang of Four’s Entertainment! by Kevin J. H. Dettmar, continues. Here’s Kevin on how to make your Entertainment! amuse bouche into an entire GoF meal. There’s something misleading in writing an entire book on a band’s debut album: it might suggest that