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Iggy Pop: An Age-Defying Force of Nature, Still Rocking the Stage
Iggy Pop has been a constant presence since his early days. I vividly remember attending his live performances in the 1980s, and each time, my excitement was through the roof. His collaborations with David Bowie, notably the...
Pepsi, Pop, and Paradox: The ’80s Bowie-Turner Collaboration
Back to the '80s: a haze of neon lights, big hair, shoulder pads, and a seemingly endless supply of enthusiasm for all things audacious. This era gave us the goofy Pepsi commercial featuring David Bowie and Tina Turner. Decades later, the...
Watermelon Sugar
When Pop Culture Icons Met: Andy Warhol and Tina Turner’s Unforgettable Encounter In the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York City was a boiling pot of emerging talent, cutting-edge artistry, and vibrant social scenes. This era saw a...
Photography Is Dead
Wim Wenders, the iPhone, and the Tragic Demise of an Art Form Smartphones have accomplished what centuries of technical advancements couldn't: they've killed photography. Yes, you heard it right. The art of capturing moments, emotions,...
Sleaford Mods: ‘The UK is like a crazy golf course’
“A lot of these politicians, they’re not evil. They’re just very detached,” says Jason Williamson, singer and lyricist of the Sleaford Mods. “I’d like to say it’s not just bounteous privilege, but it is. People like Boris Johnson, Rishi...
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Shame – “Food For Worms” Review: Londoners Expand their Horizons
A Sonic Exploration of Friendship and Evolution A high-energy punk offering with incisive lyrics, dynamic performances, and skillful production. 'Food For Worms,' Shame's third record, starts steadily before plunging into keen commentary:...
Depeche Mode on Death, Rebirth and Defying the Odds
Most Bands are still around, but only a few are still relevant and contemporary. Depeche Mode is one of them. In the beginning Eighties Hanover was a great space to listen to live music. In Klaus Ritgen's "Rotation" and the infamous...
David Byrne and Miley Cyrus Dance Their Way Into 2023
This New Year's Eve performance of David Bowie's "Let's Dance", was a fitting tribute to the late David Bowie and the pulsating energy of 80s New York. Cyrus and Byrne's collaboration was a beautiful homage to the spirit of artistic...
It was always a good night to go to CBGB.
“Fantastic Voyage” serves as Bowie’s Poignant Testament. an Impassioned Proclamation of Humanism.
It's a very modern worldBut nobody's perfectIt's a moving worldBut that's no reasonTo shoot some of those missilesThink of us as fatherless scumIt won't be forgotten'Cause we'll never say anything nice againWill we?And the wrong words...
Orbital Link With sleaford mods On ‘Dirty Rat’
Electronic duo Orbital have teamed up with Sleaford Mods for a new single called "Dirty Rat." It's the first song we get to hear from Orbital's forthcoming tenth album OpticalDelusion that's coming out early 2023, which follows the duo's...
Post, Punk, Pop and Postmodernism: The Trendsetting 80s
Spray Nation
Spray Nation shares unseen photos of New York's pioneering graffiti artists Women on Train, 1981. All photographs © Martha Cooper, from Spray Nation: 1980s NYC Graffiti Photographs by Martha Cooper, Edited by Roger Gastman © Prestel...
New York’s Fashion New Guard
Elena Velez, Willy Chavarria, and Theophilio’s Edvin Thompson – are three visionary designers shaping New York’s independent fashion landscape. Ahead of their respective SS23 shows during New York Fashion Week, they discuss their brands’...
Remembering Starman: Mick Rock’s legendary photographs of David Bowie as Ziggy
In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it came Bowie's alter ego and fellow Londoner and photographer Mick Rock. Ziggy was a glitter-clad, mascara-eyed,...
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Forty Years Ago Today, Simple Minds Changed Everything with “New Gold Dream [81,82,83,84]”
Disc of brilliant things… This day in 1982, Simple Minds released their game-changing opus, “New Gold Dream [81, 82, 83 84].” Let’s review our thoughts as written several years ago when we spent half a year poring over the career of...
‘We nearly threw them out’: the photographs of Andy Warhol that sat in a cupboard for 50 years
William John Kennedy worked with the artist on a unique set of images. Now, his widow and other figures from Warhol’s ‘menagerie’ reflect on life at the Factory. The story of these photographs begins when my husband, William John Kennedy,...