Name that hair-metal band!

I only got one wrong. How about that!
Name that hair-metal band! (via Sonic)

Nat Finkelstein

'Self-portrait' and 'Amber laughing' (both from 'Portraits')


'Dylan screen test' found in THE FACTORY YEARS: 1964 - 1967 / Duchamp to Dylan

Nat Finkelstein, photographer: Photojournalism - Andy Warhol - Factory - Velvet Underground - A Tale of One City (A photographic Trip throughthe Rock & Roll Underground) - Erotica [NSFW] - Americana - Girlfriends 1980s-90s [NSFW] - Portraits (via The Cartoonist)

Wes Montgomery, Johnny Griffin - Blue Monk

Monk's "Blue Monk" as played by Wes Montgomery and Johnny Griffin in Hamburg 1965.

Lineup:
Wes Montgomery (guitar) Hans Koller (alto saxophone) Johnny Griffin & Ronnie Scott (tenor saxophones) Ronnie Ross (baritone saxophone) Martial Solal (piano) Michel Gaudry [Edit: in French] (bass) Ronnie Stephenson (drums)

Added by sleepycreek

Buena Vista Social Club

Screen caps from 'Buena Vista Social Club' [IMDb] posted at Nostalgia No. 2.

Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan:

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Our Reverend Tom Frost

Madman blogger and musician Reverend Tom Frost has a new page on MyRockin'Rollin'Space.

Tune in to listen to 2 new haunting demo songs and 2 "old" snake charmers.

"KKK Beauty Pageant"

Click image if you want a closer look.

The poster of this image over at vintagephoto titles this "KKK Beauty Pageant".
Hm. I don't know... As a matter of fact I'm quite sure I don't want to know!
Just... take it off!!

Keith Snorted His Dad

"LONDON (Reuters) - Rolling Stones guitarist
Keith Richards said in an interview published on Tuesday that he once snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine. ..."

Ah! That is indeed recycling!

Read more bout this at Yahoo News.

Dr. Manta

Mantagraphics - The home of Dr. Manta.
Art, design and illustrations.



Dr. Manta is one of the masterminds behind the best Swedish Spirou site, Spirou enligt Franquin (In Swedish). An impressive site all aspects considered.

Dr. Manta is also known for his insightful comments here at PCL.
Yes, a man of great taste and high standards!

Kuryakin, cute life sized pin-up

Life sized Illya (David McCallum from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) pin-up. (via This Is Pop Culture)

Lobby cards for 'Anita, Swedish Nymphet'

Lobby cards for Anita, Swedish Nymphet, starring Christina Lindberg (and Stellan Skarsgård, not shown above).
Thanks to Percy Trout! Click images for a little bit of enlargement.

Cultural Revolution-Era 10" Records

The Socialist Road Is The Broadest Of All:
Song titles include: "Celebrating The Founding Of The Emancipated Serfs Association" — "The People's Communes Are Really Good" — "Carrying Manure Up The Mountainside" — "Young Intellectuals Come To The Home Of The Yi People"

"Carrying Manure Up The Mountainside", isn't that a song written by Dolly Parton? And haven't I heard "Young Intellectuals Come To The Home Of The Yi People"? Hm. Was it Beck's latest album? Or was it Momus 3:rd? I'm not sure.

"7" and 10" EPs released by China Records between 1965 and 1978."
Cultural Revolution-Era 10" Records, a small but wonderful set at Flickr uploaded by Oldtasty. (via Urban Retro Lifestyle)

Trailer Club 70

Trailer Club 70 - Trailers of strange films from the seventies and beyond
Now Showing: Raiders of Atlantis - Sugar Hill - Star Crash - The Dark - The Pom Pom Girls and Matango.
Yep, cool stuff. (via MonkeyFilter)

Showgirls

"No other icon epitomizes Las Vegas like the showgirl. While Las Vegas has become known primarily as a gambling resort, in fact its entertainment is as important to its tourist industry as gambling. Las Vegas has, in a sense, lived up to its self-promotion as the entertainment capital of the world. From a venue for New York nightclub shows in the first strip hotels—in which the entertainment director took precedence over the casino boss—Las Vegas has developed a unique and distinctive genre of adult entertainment perhaps most associated with the "Frenchified" showgirl of the Las Vegas shows Lido de Paris and Folies-Bergère, and their spin-offs of headliners, standup comics, and magicians.
The Las Vegas Showgirl, and the shows which exemplified them, have a history all their own. From the distinct theatrical traditions of burlesque, vaudeville, dance and music halls, the French cancan, comic opera and operetta, Broadway, speakeasies and nightclubs, and movies, came a cosmopolitan adult entertainment popular in New York, Hollywood, Paris, Miami Beach, Rio, and ultimately Las Vegas, where it seemed to become a permanent fixture of this town’s almost timeless firmament of entertainment. The Showgirl and The Las Vegas Show survive only in Las Vegas, that time-warp museum of popular culture. ..."
(quoted from the 'about' section of the exhibition)

"Frank Sinatra with the Copa Girls during rehearsal"
(Found in 'Jack Entratter and the Copa Girls')
Click image for much better view at source.

"Dancers in front of "Panache" sign"
(Found in 'Lido at the Stardust')
Click image for much better view at source.

Showgirls

Photographs of Black Los Angeles from the Walter Gordon Collection

"Billie Holiday stands with LAPD Detective Gosline in front of a courtroom while awaiting trial in the early 1950s. Holiday was singing “Strange Fruit” (a song about the lynching of African-Americans) in a West Hollywood club, when a member of the audience proceeded to heckle her. She left the stage midway through the song, allegedly slashed the heckler with a knife, and resumed singing. She was charged with assault and battery but the case was dismissed when the victim, under cross-examination by Walter Gordon, refused to give his name and address."

Life As He Knew It - Photographs of Black Los Angeles from the Walter Gordon Collection

Photos from the archives of The Cryptic Corporation

'John Crawfish, George Crawfish, Paul McCrawfish and Ringo Starfish'
Found in folder for Promotional > Crawfish >


Promo card from 1977
Found in folder for Promotional >

The Residents - Photos from the archives of The Cryptic Corporation. (via The Residents BOG)

Body of Evidence

"In daily life as well as in the arts - both traditional and contemporary - the human body is a primary canvas for self-expression. 'Body of Evidence', a changing exhibition drawn from the museum collection, considers how African contemporary artists use the body to communicate meaning ..." (Excerpt from the introduction)


Godfried Donkor's 'From Slave To Champ I'

Body of Evidence

Alberto Cerriteño

'Kong-fly'

Alberto Cerriteño: artworks and designs. His blog is here. (via Urban Retro Lifestyle)