Kiss’ highly publicized makeup removal launched them back into the public eye after years of floundering album sales and ill-conceived disco and pop excursions. But they stayedthere because their first makeup-free album, 1983’sLick It Up, showed they could play ball with the fresh crop of ...
disco and splendidly repurposing it for these skank-pop masterpieces. His beat on the Moulding-penned and sung “Making Plans For Nigel” is spot-on sublime, evincing the utmost sense of groove out of the expansive, reggae-tinged music. One has to wonder which came out first––“…Nigel,...
There are also T-shirts and sweatshirts printed with imagery inspired by '70s and '80s punks. Rendered in a custom "aged" ink, the graphics have the lived-in feel of vintage concert merchandise — as a press release elaborates, they "beckon to early one-off parking lot punk merch, and...
But there’s a better way to understand their runaway popularity. Paytas’s YouTube description simply says, “I’m Andy Kaufman.” A comedian, performance artist, and sometime wrestler in the ’70s and ’80s, Kaufman invented his own kind of anti-comedy. The audience was never really sur...