Headbangers Book Club: Sebastian Bach’s 18 and Life on Skid Row (Part 1)
This month's official Headbangers Book Club selection is over five years in the making: Callie got her copy of Sebastian Bach's 18 and Life on Skid Row (signed by Sea...
Women’s History Month: The Slits’ “Typical Girls”
Rock and roll is a notoriously male-dominated genre: never more so than in the 1970s, the peak years of a groupie culture that turns women--and, more often than not, underage girls--into...
From the Vault: Wanda Jackson Review and Interview, 2006
Editor's Note: In January of 2006, I had the opportunity to interview Wanda Jackson: an opportunity I naturally jumped at, as I had coincidentally just started getting into her music. At the...
Dystopian Dance Mix Vol. 30: This Playlist Annoys Fascists
On November 8, 2016, the unthinkable happened: Donald J. Trump, a wig-wearing, sentient jack'o'lantern whose only qualifications for the office were a reality television career and a simmering contempt for...
Dystopian Road Mix Vol. 9: Northern Virginia to New York City, Part 2
Well, here it is. Ever since I wrote my first Dystopian Road Mix exactly two years ago, I've known in the back of my mind that eventually I'd be writing about...
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...