If it wasn't official before, it is now: 2016 is a terrible year for musical icons. Callie and I were blindsided by the news of Prince's untimely death last Thursday;...
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...
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...
Editor's Note: As I've mentioned in the past, our Dystopian Dance Mix series was inspired by shamelessly ripped off from a similar series of "mixtapes" on my old blog, the Modern...
Jheri Curl June is, of course, first and foremost about the music. But, as I wrote in this year's introductory post, jheri curl is also a profoundly visual form; it is,...
Editor's Note: It may not always seem that way, but we're actually pretty busy people here at Dystopian Dance Party. So when it came time to put together our Dystopian...