Earl Slick: “Bowie had gone levels into insanity”

Earl Slick: “Bowie had gone levels into insanity”

His association with David Bowie stretched over five decades, he has played with everyone from John Lennon to the Cure to Carl Perkins. It’s not surprising that Earl Slick was in the middle of a tour when the first Covid lockdown began. The guitarist is, by his own...
The Art of Punk: Winston Smith and the Dead Kennedys

The Art of Punk: Winston Smith and the Dead Kennedys

“If you use a razor blade and glue, you can suddenly change the world.” —Winston Smith Terrific 15-minute documentary of collage artist, Winston Smith, and his collaborator, Jello Biafra, about the origins of their work. When he saw the Dada-esque posters of punk...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik at a Newcastle B&B

Sigue Sigue Sputnik at a Newcastle B&B

It was 1986 and I’d been on the road with Sigue Sigue Sputnik for a couple of days. They’d played a gig in Leeds the previous night and we’d just arrived at a little bed and breakfast in Newcastle upon Tyne. I dumped my stuff in my room and went down to the bar where...
How Luxury Fashion Extends Brand Identity Through Art

How Luxury Fashion Extends Brand Identity Through Art

Mixing Paintings, Sculptures, Coats, Leather Bags and Sneakers Where Art, Culture, and Commerce Intersect Across the street near the corner of Crosby and Howard Streets just a block away in the edge of New York’s Chinatown on one early evening, a series of TV monitors...
Iggy Pop Ascends to Greatness

Iggy Pop Ascends to Greatness

By the time of this picture, it was 1970 and I was working in Detroit for the short-lived rock’n’roll publication Big Fat Magazine. Iggy Pop and I went to the same high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I graduated a year ahead of him. I was not particularly into...