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“NO GLUE OR GLASS BOTTLES”: THE GATESHEAD MUSIC COLLECTIVE

By Richard McKenna

An oral history of the Gateshead Music Collective (or GMC) in the words of the
young people who started it, ran it, and frequented it in the 1980s…

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TUBULAR TERRORS: ‘THE NORLISS TAPES’

By Michael Grasso

This Halloween, I decided to give another of Kolchak producer Dan Curtis’s
horror TV movies a try. The Norliss Tapes, which aired on NBC in February of
1973, features another favorite of genre sci-fi and horror TV, Roy Thinnes, in
the lead role…

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YOU WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO BE SPOOKY: NON-HALLOWEEN SONGS FOR HALLOWEEN

By The Mutants

So read on to discover the songs that, despite having no actual connection to
the 31st of October, yet produce a frisson of seasonal alarm in the paranormally
persecuted inhabitants of mutant mansions…

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RAD, MAD & BAD: THE ANALOG REBELLION OF CRAIG BALDWIN AND OTHER CINEMA

By Andy Prisbylla

Under the stewardship of underground filmmaker and curator Craig Baldwin, Other
Cinema stands as the vanguard of Baldwin’s personal artistic conviction—what he
calls “cinema povera”…

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“THINGS CAN’T GET ANY WORSE, THEY GOT TO GET BETTER”: PAUL SCHRADER’S ‘LIGHT OF
DAY’

By Lisa Fernandes

All of the characters in Paul Schrader’s Light of Day (1987) are looking for a
way out. They’re stuck in menial nine to five jobs, on the line in factories and
behind candy-colored checkout stands in supermarkets…


ON 4TH AND BROADWAY: REMEMBERING TOWER RECORDS

By Michael Gonzales

Having grown up in the 1970s, an era when record shops were a fixture in
communities and often served as neighborhood social centers, I became obsessed
with a small store located on 146th and Broadway…

April 12, 2023 in Music & Sound.


“IT’S A GREAT LIFE IF YOU DON’T WEAKEN”: ‘THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE’ AT 50

By Johnny Restall

American cinema of the 1970s has long been recognized for its downbeat,
character-led crime dramas. From Alan J. Pakula’s Klute (1971) to Arthur Penn’s
Night Moves (1975) and Ulu Grosbard’s Straight Time (1978)…

March 20, 2023 in Film & TV.


WE ARE THE MUTANTS: THE BOOK!

If you haven’t heard, we wrote a book! And it’s out right now! Won’t you please
buy it and be our best friend?

January 4, 2023 in Books & Literature.


“HAVE A GOOD TIME ALL THE TIME”: ‘THIS IS SPINAL TAP’ AND THE ART OF LONGING

By Lisa Fernandes

1984’s This is Spinal Tap is all about the pining—epic pining, as high and
fulsome as the band’s hair and the wailing notes they (try to) hit…

November 7, 2022 in Film & TV.


“ONE NITE ONLY”: WHEN FRANK ZAPPA PLAYED AT STATE U

By James Higgins

In the summer of 1970, the launch of the humor magazine National Lampoon was not
going well…

September 26, 2022 in Art & Illustration.


POP CULTURE JAM: THE MAINSTREAM SUBVERSION OF ROCKY MORTON AND ANNABEL JANKEL

By Andy Prisbylla

The subversive paradox created when Max Headroom turned pitchman for corporate
cola is just one of many in the career of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel…

June 22, 2022 in Film & TV.


AUTHENTIC MUSIC FROM ANOTHER PLANET: THE HOWARD MENGER STORY

By Stephen Canner

From the opening years of the 1950s, various terrestrials came forward claiming
to be in contact with the occupants of flying saucers. Their stories were often
quite similar…

March 8, 2022 in Occult & Paranormal.


NO BONDAGE, NO MORE: ‘POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ’

By Eve Tushnet

I first heard about the X-Ray Spex from a Riot Grrrl flier handed out at punk
concerts in the mid-’90s. Their one album, Germfree Adolescents, was on a list
of woman-led punk music…

February 28, 2022 in Music & Sound.


SHOPPING MAULED: REVISITING ‘THE MALL: AN ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM EVERYDAY LIFE’

By Ty Matejowsky

By now, dead shopping malls are as much a part of the popular imagination as
they are blighted fixtures of suburban landscapes: sprawling vestiges of a
bygone era when droves of consumers flocked to self-contained hubs of retail
commerce…

February 9, 2022 in Books & Literature.


DOOM, DÉTENTE, DR PEPPER: ‘GODZILLA 1984’ AND ‘GODZILLA 1985’

By Alex Adams

Also known as The Return of Godzilla and simply Godzilla, Godzilla 1984 is what
we would now call a reboot: part remake, part sequel, a fresh start that
retrieved some things from Godzilla’s past while discarding others…

January 31, 2022 in Film & TV.


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