Various And Sundry

|December 11, 2015 | Various And Sundry

* Catching up with Slade frontman Noddy Holder

 

* The 61 emblems of belief available for placement on veterans’ headstones

 

* How the Casio MT-40 keyboard started modern reggae (re: the last paragraph, I think it’s Bowie‘s Hang On To Yourself)

 

* Here’s a wild, true story

 

* The actual music behind the worst album covers ever

 

* Here’s something you should listen to if you’re interested in writers, writing, and New York City

 

* Wu-Tang album skits, ranked. Where my Killer tape at?

 

* Here are some interesting vintage Xmas postcards

 

* Sex, death, and the crazy, psychedelic vampire movies of Jean Rollin

 

* Lee Brilleaux, Dr.Feelgood singer and unsung architect of punk

 

* This is an ad for a paper company, and it is quite Californian, but interesting nonetheless : the master builders at Fender made a playable cardboard guitar

 

* On British urban renewal, the 1960s, brutalist architecture : “We thought we faced a future of infinite optimism. But in the headlong rush for change we created a new alien landscape, a concrete modernity. In the myth of the time, this was progress. In reality, it was the gates of hell.”