
Oct 30 2017
Metal Machine Music - Liner Notes

Sep 10 2017
Martin Sheen: Heart of Darkness Heart of Gold
written by Jean Vallely for Rolling Stone magazine (November 1st 1979)
Shit," says Martin Sheen as the makeup man fusses over him, "I've got this deformed left arm, three inches shorter than the right, can't do a thing with it…
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Aug 5 2017
Boy Howdy: Mary Lucia's ode to Creem Magazine
originally posted on The Current July 19, 2016
I love books, but man, do I LOVE rock magazines. My mail carrier most likely hates my guts.
Growing up, copies of Rolling Stone, Trouser Press, NY Rocker, Spin and Creem magazines…
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Jun 30 2017
The original photo used on Ministry's Land of Rape & Honey album cover (and the story behind it)
The album cover is an electronically processed image of a burned corpse in the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald. Jourgensen took a picture of the holocaust from a documentary on television and distorted the image himself. It was originally rejected…
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Jun 13 2017
Happiness Is A Warm Jet (NME Brian Eno article by Nick Kent)
New Musical Express OCTOBER 13, 1973 - by Nick Kent
Being an account of the latest recorded work of Mr. Brian Eno, late of Roxy Music, and featuring Blank Frank, friend of the Massive Mario.
Clapham, that exotic…
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May 1 2017
Prince: Strange Tales from Andre’s Basement… and other fantasies come true
Musician Magazine - September 1983
Sure he’s a weird kid. For Prince Rogers Nelson, a man whom Henry Miller and Howard Hughes are undoubtedly behavioral models, the two S’s of sex and secrecy are paramount. His reluctance to talk to…
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Apr 14 2017
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby (review by Peter Laughner)
CREEM MAGAZINE - March 1976
This album made me so morose and depressed when I got the advance copy that I stayed drunk for three days. I didn't go to work. I had a horrible physical fight with my wife…
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Mar 11 2017
Stagger Lee Was A Woman by Lester Bangs
(from Creem Magazine - February 1976)
Patti Smith will survive the media blitz and everybody’s hunger for another "superstar," because she’s an artist in a way that’s right old-fashioned; Horses lunges with raw urgency, but her approach is very methodical…
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Jan 9 2017
Syd Barrett Rolling Stone interview by Mick Rock (1971)
LONDON — If you tend to believe what you hear, rather than what is, Syd Barrett is either dead, behind bars, or a vegetable. He is in fact alive and as confusing as ever, in the town where he was…
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Nov 16 2016
Livin' Out of a Suitcase and #Calexit
livin' out of a suitcase is a concept shamefully foreign to most. it's more of a rounded concept than most caught in the simple mindset would wish to categorize it. i don't have the answers but have some insight.
"ya…
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