Death of a Pitchman
A lifetime as a writer, producer, hustler and a fine gentleman who was known by the credo "champagne wishes and caviar dreams" unknowingly led us to the land of plastic fantastic. Robin Leach...
Author: Justin Press
A metalhead Virginia kid with a Texas spirit, an NYC restlessness and a Utah mountainside soul. Born of an English mother and a German father, an introverted extrovert, the shadow and the illumination: English prose with German fire. I’ve huddled with the poor and downtrodden in Berlin, bathed in the Dead Sea, dined at Buckingham Palace, and broken bread in Tunisia.
GALLERY: Alice Cooper Live 2016
Alice’s Make America Sick Again campaign hit Dallas for the third to last show on his never ending tour and culminated with 2 hours of stage camp, hundreds of pounds of combustibles and a catalog...
PHOTO GALLERY: Cheap Trick In Color …and Black and White
Dallas, Texas 2016 As the better part of 46 years rolls towards the band, Cheap Trick still retains its moniker as “the hardest working band in the business” performing upwards of 200 gigs a...
Nosferatu: Why this one horror show stands the test of time
As a student, fan, purveyor and addict to all things in cinema that batter around our inner fears and emotions in the realms of the horror/suspense/thriller one truly stands the test of time and...
‘Summer Madness’: Pure Outer Space Jam by Kool & the Gang
Long before those days of “celebrating” good times, Kool & The Gang were a deeply sophisticated R&B / Funk band that delved heavily into the jazz/progressive side of things. Like their...
‘Of Sins’: Melbourne’s The Ugly Kings are Kevlar-coated and Ready for Incoming
The Ugly Kings Of Sins The hardscrabble geography of Australia is not for the faint of heart. On one side you have seas filled with swimming Cadillac’s with razors for teeth, the other is barren...
David Bowie and His Ever Changing Moods
Let’s make this brief and to the point: David Bowie created reinvention in popular culture. No one artist fluidly switched appearances, characters, song styles or musical genre with more aplomb. He...
Vintage Gold: The Man Who Sold The World
The Man Who Sold The World is one of those overlooked records in that stretch for Bowie where Aladdin Sane, Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs, Space Oddity and Hunky Dory sucked up all the oxygen in the...
Vintage Gold: Killer Queen
My first albums as a kid were Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, KISS and K-Tel but it was this Queen track that really elicits memories. Just moved from Scotland to Virgina in 1974 and Glam was in full...
Apparitions: December in Gotham
Hustling against a mass of humanity on an unlikely 70 degree December day in New York City, it was all about the shadows. The 1pm in this place feels like dusk is about to set in.