Dangerous Minds

2020-01-23

Veteran singer/guitarist Sonny Vincent

2020-01-22

Get them young and you’ll have them for life. That was the maxim when I worked in television. It was called “creating brand loyalty,” which probably explains...

2020-01-21

“I don’t really call myself a painter…I draw. So I draw my pictures, and then sometimes I paint them in, and sometimes I don’t. I’ve been doing this always...

2020-01-20

Clean cut, All-American crooner Gene Pitney

2020-01-17

For nearly sixty years, Belgian artist Jacques Charlier has been active in art in one form of another, and that includes...

2020-01-15

Before Salvador Dali met Sigmund Freud during the summer of 1938 in London, the great Surrealist artist had tried unsuccessfully on several occasions...

2020-01-14

A painting by Paolo Girardi. The subject of this post, Italian artist Paolo Girardi, is also a survivor, if not a warrior. In a lengthy interview with...

2020-01-13

On January 21st, 1979, Blondie found themselves in a strange predicament. Canadian megaband Rush (R.I.P. Neil Peart) needed a last-minute opening act...

2020-01-10

I first became aware of the British pop-punk band the Flys by way of Superchunk’s 1990 cover of “Night Creatures.” Though obviously a stellar tune, it...

2020-01-08

When Patti Smith first met Judy Linn they were two young artists just starting out on their careers. It was one-nine-six-eight. Smith was a poet, born...