Showing posts with label GLAM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GLAM. Show all posts
Friday, February 16, 2024

"Divine Decadence Darling!"

›
I had a lovely time talking with Jeremy Gilbert and Tim Lawrence for their triffic music + politics podcast Love Is the Message . Our chat...
Monday, May 22, 2023

glum + glam =

›
In celebration of World Goth Day, here's my Los Angeles Times piece  on Cruel World , the festival of Goth and mope-rock that takes pla...
Friday, January 15, 2021

Mask On

›
Here's a piece that was fun to write - a history of people in pop who wore masks or otherwise heavily disguised their appearance with ma...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Futur choc

›
 Excited to announce the publication of two books in translation!           On November 16th,  Audimat  publish  Le choc du glam , the Frenc...
Monday, March 04, 2019

extinguished

›
Went to bed, after watching Leaving Neverland , feeling troubled... Woke up uneasy, to find out that Keith Flint has died. Every week th...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

All the Young Droogs

›
Here's my Pitchfork review of a new Cherry Red box set compiled by junkshop glam archivist Phil King - All the Young Droogs: 60 Juven...
Monday, November 05, 2018

obituaries and bitchery

›
An  essay  I wrote for Stanford Live about the death of David Bowie, our culture of public mourning, and the challenge of writing an honest...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

EUROPE TOUR APRIL 28 - MAY 12 : AUSTRIA, GERMANY, POLAND, U.K., SPAIN

›
SATURDAY APRIL 28  - KREMS an der DONAU, AUSTRIA Donaufestival: endlose Gegenwart (endless now) 2pm - "Absent Futures, Present Pa...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

GLAM BOOK TOUR - DEUTSCHLAND + ITALIA - DECEMBER 2017

›
          Pulling my gloves, scarf and woolly hat out of SoCal retirement as I head off to snowy Germany and only slightly less shive...
Thursday, June 06, 2013

interesting book (a series) #1

›
kicking off a new, sporadic series, about interesting books, mostly but not exclusively music-related : All the Young Dudes: Why Glam Ma...