Rock’s Revolutionary Poet, Lou Reed, Leaves Behind a ‘Great American Novel’
Oct 28, 2013 His music was at once simple, loud, beautiful, difficult and always pushing the culture faster than it was ready to move.
Lou Reed
Oct 28, 2013
NASA Needs More Moonage Daydreamers
Feb 9, 2010 A lot of people have said in recent weeks that the space agency simply lacks the chutzpah that put a man on a moon. Figure out global warming? Boring, they say. The Onion has come up with a satirical solution that just might blow your minds: Project Spaceman, the David Bowie-inspired Glam Space Program. (continued)
The Next Generation of Fascists
Jul 3, 2007 At a rock concert in Zagreb, Croatia, this weekend, a young generation of concert-goers displayed a disturbing nostalgia for fascism. Thousands of fans responded to rock star Marko Perkovic by giving the Nazi salute and shouting slogans from WWII.
Doherty of Mamas and Papas Dead at 66
Jan 20, 2007 The Mamas and the Papas' Denny Doherty died on Friday at the age of 66. The singer had suffered a brief illness and was experiencing kidney problems.
BattleCry: Ron Luce’s Holy War
May 23, 2006 Truthdig contributor Sunsara Taylor reports again from the front lines -- a BattleCry Christian-fundamentalist rock music rally, where a "sexpert" claims that "condoms don't work," Navy SEALs stage mock assassination raids in the name of Christ, and evangelist Franklin Graham suggests that HIV/AIDS is a punishment from God (Third in a series See: column 1, column 2) .
