Music, Film, and More from the Circle City
12 x 5 filled the gap in The Rolling Stones’s early years. 12 x 5 is a product of a band thrown off guard by the propensity of popularity and a record label rushing to spit out a product thanks to the immediate success of the rock and roll explosion. … Read More ›
Monsters Who’s Who, Dulan Barber 1975, 1974, Marshall Cavendish Publications Limited This is by far the strangest culmination of monster knowledge via encyclopedic entries. Dulan Barber was an author of nonfiction, novelizations, and children’s fiction. He wrote twelve fiction thrillers under the name of David Fletcher and horror fiction under … Read More ›
In 1981, Van Halen Gave Us Fair Warning It’s been touted as a fan favorite. It also has been considered an under-conceptualized album by critics and many in the hard rock populous. What is Van Halen’s Fair Warning to the Van Halen universe? Statistically, it is the only Van Halen … Read More ›
Ten Years Ago The Drift Gave Us an Incredible Instrumental Journey Link: Bandcamp Spring forward! As we take yet another year to adjust our clocks an hour ahead, it always comes at the expense of a Monday. Why not a Friday or Saturday? Maybe it’s the lag of my biological … Read More ›
50 Years Ago, Marvel gives Birth to the Man-Thing It started in Savage Tales number one. A government scientist hides out in the swamps of the Everglades, holding the key to a chemical that, if in the wrong hands, could be used as a catastrophic weapon. He has to destroy … Read More ›
Sixty Years Ago, Herbie Mann Gave Us a Soundtrack to the Vibrancy of Greenwich Village and the legendary Village Gate Herbie Mann Live at the Village Gate Atlantic Records 1961 You can practically smell the cigarette smoke wafting through the air. A haze stretches across the room illuminating a sense … Read More ›
Digging back forty years ago, The Micronauts Take a Fantastic Voyage to save Themselves. What Bill Mantlo did to The Micronauts series up to this point in Marvel’s venture is nothing short of stunning. Taking a snippet of what Takara created and Mego popularized in the 1970s, Mantlo expanded the … Read More ›
Punk, Pizza, and Pepto, A Look Back at the innovators of the Kansai No Wave scene In 1997 I was invited for a road trip down to Bloomington to see this punk band from Kyoto, Japan. They were touring for their Alternative Tentacles release of God Is God, Puke Is … Read More ›