(This review contains copious spoilers: if you intend to read the novel yourself, proceed with caution. We're posting it as a blog since it's not strictly music-related, despite being written by a prominent musician. Now read on!)
Joining the vast array of musicians-turned-novelists (wait, what?), Davey Havok of AFI …
In the month leading up to the holiday, it's often difficult to escape the near-continual assault of schmaltzy Christmas music. It seems virtually every artist of note in the last half century (and quite a few that are best left forgotten) have, at some point or other, produced some …
On January 21 I saw Bash & Pop with the So So Glos at the Great Scott in Boston, MA, a small-bar venue with a sound system that’s just shitty enough to be charming. I’d seen the So So Glos before and loved them - they’re a fun, snarky NYC …
Adman: Warhol before Pop
Art Galley of NSW
Sydney, AU
Feb 25-May 28, 2017
Soon after graduating having earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Pictorial Design, a young chap who still went under his original name Andrew Warhola, moved to New York City …
Spirit of the Wild - Wild Turkey Pop-up
Sydney, Australia
There are pop-ups abound.
There is hardly a multi-national brand that has not at least dabbled in providing an experience to win new audiences over and extend what they are known for with some sort of …
The Merchant of Venice
Pop-up Globe
Sydney, Australia
September 28, 2018
The Buckingham’s Company's comedic take on Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is an exuberant exercise in engaging theatre.
Set in a three-story local pop-up equivalent to the second Globe Theatre built by Shakespeare’s …
The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design, 1930–1995
Yale University Press
Huh, the phenomenon of ubiquitous pop art!
A topic that has not exactly suffered from a lack of attention and discussion of its significance.
Thomas Crow’s elaborations approaches the sujet from the …
