The story of the only American artist convicted for obscenity is told in Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana. In the late 1980s, Florida-based teenager Mike Diana began his underground comic “Boiled Angel,” which was designed by Diana to be be the most offensive zine ever published, with the comics featuring very graphic depictions of…
A writer for The Late Show with David Letterman talks about his obsession with industrial musicals in Bathtubs Over Broadway. While collecting weird records to showcase on David Letterman’s talk show, writer Steve Young discovered obscure cast recording for Broadway-style musicals created by corporations like General Electric, McDonald’s, Ford, DuPont, Xerox. This opens up an obsession…
In the town of Trenton, NJ, there was a ramshackle club called “King Tut’s City Gardens.” The club’s main concert promoter during its heyday was Randy “Now” Ellis, who booked over 4000 bands at the club. During its lifetime, City Gardens hosted everything from underground punk bands to upstart alternative rockers. Riot of the Dance…
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