The Fierce Funk Rock of 'Mother's Finest' (The most dangerous opening band in rock)
So imagine this; you are one of, let’s say, nine-thousand or so fans who came to see Black Sabbath at the International Amphitheater on...
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The LSD Archive At The Institute of Illegal Images
“It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters On October 6, 1966 (aka...
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How Edward Hopper “Storyboarded” His Painting Nighthawks
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks (1942) doesn't just evoke a certain stripe of mid-century, after-hours, big-city American loneliness; it has...
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Four Irrational Behaviours Voltaire Warned Us About
François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, is the principal representative of the Age of Enlightenment. He fought passionately...
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Hypnotizing Translucent Waves In 19th Century Russian Paintings Capture The Raw Power Of The Sea
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky loved painting the sea. A Crimean native, he was born in Feodosia, a port town, and thus had great waters...
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The first Indian Pilot Of WW1- Hardit Singh Malik
Hardit Singh Malik was born into a well-to-do Sikh family on 23rd November 1894 in the bustling city of Rawalpindi in West Punjab,...
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Marked Up Photographs Show How Iconic Prints Were Edited in the Darkroom
Want to see what kind of work goes into turning a masterful photograph into an iconic print? Pablo Inirio, the master darkroom printer...
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Moonrise kingdom: How Ansel Adams's Most Famous Photograph Became A Money-Spinner
Ansel Adams is widely considered the most popular and the most influential landscape photographer in history. “Few bodies of work...
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The Lost Art of Cassette Design
Steve Vistaunet’s Pinterest is a treasure-trove of photos of exuberant cassette spine designs from the gilded age of the mix-tape,...
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Album Covers With Deceased Band Members Removed
Death is a natural part of life, but for some reason, when it happens to our favorite figures in the entertainment world, it’s almost...
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Kevin Cummins’ Iconic Photos of Joy Division and New Order
Some shots you don’t think ‘Right, I’ve just done a defining image.’ It becomes that, because it’s the picture that’s associated with the...
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The USS Indianapolis Scene In Jaws
One of the key and most chilling moments in the film Jaws comes when Shaw's character Quint delivers a harrowing four-minute monologue...
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Let's All Obsess Over This Intricate Map of Alt Music History
It started with the Sex Pistols. Specifically, with the Sex Pistols’ June 4, 1976, show at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester,...
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People That Found Themselves In Museums.
If I was ever confronted with my likeness in a museum I would freak.
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Nick Cave And His Beautiful World
How many times have you heard John Willmot, Vladimir Nabokov, St. John of the Cross, Johnny Thunders, Karl Marx , Paul Gauguin, Philip...
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How Women Scientists Have Been Denied Recognition and Written Out of History
The history of science, like most every history we learn, comes to us as a procession of great, almost exclusively white, men, unbroken...
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The Black Crowes and the making of The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
October 1991, King George’s Hall, Blackburn. The Black Crowes are in Shangri-La. That’s singer Chris Robinson’s description of the bubble...
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This Guy Hunts Down Original Album Cover Locations In London
Vintage album covers are reunited with their original shoot locations in this satisfying series. Shot by Alex Bartsch, everything is...
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Sam Cooke's ‘Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963’
'Harlem Square' first appeared in 1985, 21 years after Cooke’s untimely death at age 33— murdered, under murky circumstances, at a LA...
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The Beatles’ Revelatory White Album Demos: A Complete Guide
Delve deep into the 1968 home recordings that planted the seeds for the band’s classic self-titled double LP “We are going in with clear...
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An Animated Introduction to Charles Dickens’ Life & Literary Works
The social role of the writer changes from generation to generation, but at no time in the history of literary culture have novelists and...
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Richard Francis Burton: The Victorian Adventurer And Spy Who Brought The Kama Sutra To The West
Sir Richard Francis Burton’s obituary described him as “one of the most remarkable men of his time” and he certainly lived up to that...
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L.A. Woman, The Doors' Finest Hour?
The Doors had crammed several lifetimes into just five years as band, and by late 1970, the psychic toll of Jim Morrison’s addiction and...
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A Few Characters Worth Knowing About
This is just a small colection of people that have had impossibly interesting lives and ones that aren't commonly known about, but should...
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