Me, 3 Women, & Prince
It's summer, 2004. I'm in the audience at the Palace of Auburn Hills with my girlfriend at the time. Prince is onstage, playing "Purple Rain." Tears are streaming down my...
Best of Dystopian Dance Party, Year 2
I'll be honest: when I wrote last year's post on the first year of Dystopian Dance Party, I had my doubts over whether I'd be able to keep up my...
Dystopian Listening Party Podcast: The Gospel According to Rock ‘n’ Roll
In American popular music, there's always been a fine line between the sacred and the secular. On this episode of the Dystopian Dance Party podcast, we talk about a few...
Jesus? This is Iggy: The Dystopian Dance Party Guide to Iggy Pop
Today, Iggy Pop releases Post Pop Depression: the latest product of a solo career that has spanned four decades, 17 albums, and almost as many stalls and about-faces. You probably wouldn't...
Yes, I’m a Witch: The Dystopian Dance Party Guide to Yoko Ono
Few figures in contemporary pop culture are more unnecessarily reviled than Yoko Ono. A respected activist, philanthropist, and performance artist with a five-decade body of work, she is more colloquially remembered...
From the Vault: The Golden Age of Mott the Hoople
Editor's Note: Last Sunday, rock and roll lost another hero: Mott the Hoople drummer Terence Dale "Buffin" Griffin (above, far left), who died in his sleep at the age of 67....