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Steampunk is a genre of science fiction that has roots in Victorian aesthetics and typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology. Alas, first »
The influential English post-punk band XTC scored modest hits including “Dear God,” “Mayor of Simpleton,” “The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead” and “Senses Working Overtime” before »
Pop Art of the 1960s is as ubiquitous to collectors as the golden arches of McDonald’s: Lichtenstein, Warhol and Haring can be seen in the »
Working the piano, and the open mics and music halls of her hometown of San Clemente, Calif., Gal Musette arrived with an act of true »
A DECADE OF DAZE: Phil Pirrone’s Desert Daze Festival Celebrates 10 Years by Steve LaBate Hurtling through prisms of colored light in the desert dark, I »
Four trombone players sporting blonde bobs, black tails and fishnet stockings promenade down a dusty stair and through a heart-shaped neon-lit entryway, and what looks »
We Intend to Cause Havoc, the band name chosen by frontman Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda and his mates, was a claim to distinction in a highly »
While science helps to explain the brain’s response to psychedelics, the individual experience in all of its transformative capacity is spiritual — yet somehow still »
Surfbort formed at the perfect time. In 2014, when the world seemed a little lighter, Dani Miller left California — to work in film in »
A Cheshire cat slinks into an open seat at the bar next to Poison Ivy, while The Joker bolts outside, leaving his drink, to catch »
Here’s a fact that seems made up: Florida has among the best state animal protection laws in America. So says the Animal Legal Defense Fund, »
It’s been almost a decade since married bandmates Maitejosune Urrechaga and Tony Kapel began using Houndstooth Cottage as a name under which to start booking »
