Category Archives: music

rock shirt

Posted on January 25, 2014 | Leave a comment

Introducing a new category (with a particularly uninspired title) on rock and roll T-shirt designs. First up, Thurston on Titus.

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Posted in a man that we admire, context, music, rock shirt

on your sleeve

Posted on January 23, 2014 | Leave a comment

We Can't Be Stopped

We Can’t Be Stopped. Geto Boys. 1991.

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Posted in context, music, on your sleeve

advertising

Posted on January 22, 2014 | 4 comments

1966.

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Posted in advertising, context, cute band alert, music

russell directs

Posted on January 19, 2014 | Leave a comment

Ken Russell and Ringo on the set of Lisztomania. 1975.

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Posted in cinema, context, music, on the set of, years after the event

pen to paper

Posted on January 15, 2014 | Leave a comment

Letter from Ronald Reagan to Michael Jackson after Michael was hospitalized for burns sustained when Pepsi tried to kill him. Below MJ visiting a fellow patient during his treatment at the Brotman Memorial Hospital.

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cute band alert

Posted on January 13, 2014 | Leave a comment

Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers, whose Phil died earlier this month.

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Posted in context, cute band alert, music, we are the dead

museum piece

Posted on January 11, 2014 | Leave a comment

elvis face jug

Piece: Elvis Presley Face Jug #4. Fired clay with various glazes including platinum oxide by Michael and Melvin Crocker.

Where: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Posted in context, damn elvis, museum piece, music

what’s wrong with being sexy?

Posted on January 1, 2014 | 2 comments

Mike Love

Mike Love and a bevy of beauties who are no doubt wondering who this old dude is.

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Posted in being sexy, context, music

santa claus

Posted on December 25, 2013 | Leave a comment

ringo, nilsson

Ringo and Harry Nilsson.

Santas of Christmas Past: James Brown, Paul McCartney and Wings, Blackie Lawless, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Nick Ray.

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Posted in booze, context, music, years after the event

record labels

Posted on December 24, 2013 | Leave a comment

Beatles' Christmas Album

The Beatles’ Christmas Album. The Beatles. 1970.

Between the misaligned label and the fuzzy-around-the-edges type, I didn’t need Bruce Spizer to tell me that my copy of this LP is a counterfeit.

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Posted in context, music, record labels, years after the event