Nostalgia for New Wave Nostalgia

Back in my rock critic phase, I used to write reviews on spec for Classic Rock. But as far as I remember, none of them ever got published. I think because they were a little too Eighties-centric for the Seventies-centric glossy. Such is life.

Gang of Four: Don't Eff with the Chemistry

Here's some secret history for you...

Chris Cornell: Bitten by the Black Dog

There's a free article up commemorating the seventh anniversary of Chris Cornell's death.

Check it out here: https://thesecretsun.substack.com/p/bitten-by-the-black-dog

"Bribes, Levitation and the Occult"

Dig in.

Then dig into this.

The Last Gangs in Town: The Bloody Days of LA Punk

What people stupidly call "Punk Rock" today is a fetid puddle of bloodless, sexless schoolmarms -- beyond weak, beyond sad, beyond pathetic. Like so much of the rotting corpse of pop culture in general, come to think of it.