down and out in 1980s San Francisco: Roddy Bottum’s The Royal We
A personal journey through the post-punk, pre-email milieu of Frightwig and Survival Research Laboratories, when the city’s civil libertarian ethos mixed with its cultural chip on the shoulder (against suburbia, Los Angeles, puritanical scolds and authorities) to light a bonfire of freakishness, bad attitude, and self-destructiveness. And of art, be that the primary purpose for...
favorite music of 2025
This album activated the serotonin in my brain that was dormant ever since Fatboy Slim and other "big beat" practitioners faded away from my collection. More, please!