John Lennon: The Last Great Anti-War Activist
Despite the moving tributes that were paid to John Lennon’s lyrical vision of a world without war, racial or religious…
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Human Beings on Paper: Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar
Soul: Just the mayhem. You know what I'm saying, the extra, extra pills. Things like that. People are easily influenced.…
Ready to Give an Answer: An interview with Pat Boone
Born in 1934 and raised in Nashville, Tenn., Pat Boone was an unlikely candidate to be one of rock and…
Fuck Authenticity: The Sordid Life And Subtle Gestures of the Sex Pistols
At the age of fourteen, to the chagrin of my parents, I dyed my already bleach-blonde hair bright green. I…
Bob Dylan’s Hellfire and Brimstone Storm
Old. Irrelevant. Washed up. Out of touch. Creatively dead. Anyone who has followed Bob Dylan's career over the past half-century…
Fear in America: The Militarization of Domestic Government Agencies
Turn on the TV or flip open the newspaper on any given day, and you will find yourself accosted by…
Stop the City: Identity, Protest, and the Punks Who Occupied London’s Financial District in 1983
In the wake of 1982’s notoriously specious Falklands War, in the ominous shadow of a nuclear stalemate, against the backdrop…
Two Poems by Jesse Saldana
"No ideas but in things," goes the famous William Carlos Williams line. Jesse Saldana's poetry has such a notion as…
A Tiny Pebble Hitting a Huge Pond – An Interview with Bruce Fein
It's very difficult to have a bad conversation with Bruce Fein. In his answers to my questions about deeply troubling…
A Ghostly Beat
I was sitting on the toilet in one of my favourite watering holes in town when I heard someone’s ring…