Dystopian Listening Party Podcast: Memorial Day, 2016-2017
Well, here we are: for the second consecutive year, we're turning Memorial Day weekend into a time of remembrance for the many great artists we lost since last May. But because this...
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...
Dystopian Road Mix Vol. 10: Iceland
Last October, my girlfriend Kia and I spent four days in Iceland: mostly Reykjavik, with a few sojourns elsewhere around the southwestern part of the country. I had planned all...
A Manufactured Image with No Philosophies: The Dystopian Dance Party Guide to the Monkees
As we noted before, yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the premiere of The Monkees on NBC. For most millennials, I'm sure, that date passed by with nary a blip on their...
From the Vault: Pop Politics – The Disturbing Merger between Rock Music and the Establishment
Editor's Note: Well, the Republican National Convention is now behind us, and to my eternal surprise, there wasn't even a major outbreak of violence. There was, however, a reprisal of that...
Jheri Curl June: Scritti Politti’s “Boom! There She Was”
The last post of Jheri Curl June is always a bittersweet one to write. On the one hand, there's the satisfaction of knowing we have another solid month's worth of...