Features News 5 amazing things you didn’t know about Janis Joplin by Luke Saunders In testament to the woman behind the myth, here are 5 amazing things you didn’t know about the incredible blues woman, Janis Joplin. Janis Joplin was a free-wheeling soul and…
Music News Pop Culture Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang has died, aged 77 by Lochie Schuster One of the brains behind the world’s most iconic music festival, Michael Lang has died in a New York Hospital, aged 77. At the age of 24, Michael Lang, alongside…
News Pro Audio Neil Young and Janis Joplin producer, Elliot Mazer, has died at 79 by Borna Crvelin Not only an incredible producer and engineer, Elliot Mazer was also known as a pioneer of digital technology in the studio. Elliot Mazer, the name and brain behind recordings such…
Features The story of Moondog: blind poet, Viking vagabond, genius composer by Luke Saunders New York City in the 1960s. A silent sentinel stands on the corner of West 54th Street and Sixth Avenue, in midtown Manhattan. A totemic guardian who keeps a blind…
Features The story of Thomas Noguchi: coroner to the stars by Luke Saunders On the 5th of August, 1962, troubled beauty and famed actress Marilyn Monroe was found nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of…
Books Features ‘Janis: Her Life and Music’: a celebration of rock’s first female superstar by Luke Saunders Around 1 a.m. on 4 Oct, 1970, Janis Joplin skin popped a dose of ‘China White’ heroin at Room 105 of the Landmark Motor Hotel. The batch was 40-50 percent…
Features Why are we obsessed with the 27 Club? by Luke Saunders What is our obsession with the beautifully broken? There is something of a mythologising aura surrounding musicians who die at the tender age of 27. But not just any musicians….
Books News Janis: Her Life and Music, How Good’s Australia and more – Happy’s Weekend Reading by Dan Shaw On the list this week is Janis: Her Life and Music, the tale of the counter-cultural icon, How Good’s Australia is our country’s coming of age story told from the…
News New Woodstock 50th anniversary box set will feature every set played at the original festival by Mia Hull It’s starting to look like Woodstock 50 won’t go ahead. However, while we won’t be celebrating the anniversary of the iconic event with a festival, we’ll still get to relive…
News Vinyl A juicy list of rumoured 2019 Record Store Day releases has dropped by Luke Saunders Christmas for wax lovers is just around the bend and the bells are surely ringing. Record Store Day is fast approaching and on April 13th a brand new wagonload of…
