For thousands of years, Religion held people in thrall partly due to the weapon of spectacle. For the poor it was the only game in town....

Having confirmed the highly anticipated rescheduled dates earlier this year, Johnny Marr returns to the stage for Frontier Touring,...

Ace Frehley is an iconic figure. Larger than life, the space ace from Jendel. All my life I’ve seen him depicted on album sleeves,...

Eloquent, arrogant, underrated. Andy Prieboy has been wringing songs of rare grace and lyrical flair out of his piano for over 30 years. ...

Berlin-based artist Hiroyasu Tsuri blends the metaphoric inspiration of Haruki Murakami’s narrative landscapes with the rhetoric of...

To many, Ace Frehley is not of this planet - his guitar work consistently cited by rock historians and musicians alike as the alien egg...

Like many ex-pat entertainers, comedian Jim Jefferies is finally being embraced at home after finding his voice and major success...

Tasmania’s winter festival Dark Mofo has announced its 2015 lineup, which will include appearances from the award-winning Antony and the...

The Captive Bolt Pistol was invented in 1903 by the former Director of a slaughterhouse in Straubing Germany named Dr. Hugo Heiss....

Mona’s midwinter festival Dark Mofo has announced Antony and the Johnsons as an early highlight of their 2015 program. Antony and the...

As the guitarist and songwriter for The Smiths, Johnny Marr birthed some of the most dazzling and influential songs of the 1980’s. With...

As a fixture of the original New York Punk Scene, there’s very little that Legs McNeil hasn’t borne witness to (twice). Best known for...

In 1984, 17 year old Michael Alig packed his bags and left his home town of South Bend, Indiana. He was fleeing a childhood marred by...

When I was around 11 years old my older cousin gave me a denim jean jacket with the sleeves cut off, and you better believe there was a...

To today’s listener, Venom’s early work on 1981’s Welcome To Hell and 1982’s Black Metal may sound surprisingly benign, but on release...