Arts Bombast: Rene Ricard
Tonight (!) is the opening for Warholian art hero Rene Ricard’s “New Paintings and Not So New” at Highlight Gallery here in SF. I’m not sure why he has never … Continue reading
Style Ish: Never the Bride
Fashion punk rock icon and general disaster of a human being Courtney Love created a clothing line. It’s called Never the Bride, and I’m on the fence about the flapper-dresses-with-docs-and-rainbow-hair … Continue reading
In the Mood For: NOISE (+ Sadomasochism)
For today’s post on Noise, I invited my good friend, noise-expert, former host of Smoooooth Beatz, MD20/20 enthusiast, and all-around fucked-up member of anti-society The Gimp to write an intro … Continue reading
RAB Radio #20: Refusing to Be a Man
Every Saturday night, I DJ a radio show of all female-fronted punk, post-punk, no wave, garage rock… that kind of thing. In this installment of Ribbon Around a Bomb Radio, … Continue reading
Noisegasm: White Lung
Fancy that: The fine fellow from dark/obscuro Swedish music blog Invisible Guy interviewed me for the 12th edition of Harvesting. If you haven’t had enough of my ramblings and recommendations … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Women Who Rock
Other than the fact that the title is shamelessly trite, I’m not sure what to make of the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ current exhibition, Women Who Rock: … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Franklin Furnace
Franklin Furnace has been “making the world safe for avant-garde art” since 1976. That was the year that outsider/performance artist Martha Wilson founded the institution with the intention of promoting … Continue reading
In the Mood For… Halloween
It’s what, like, 10 days away? I’m on two Halloween party-planning “committees” at the moment, but I wish I could throw my own, inspired by these lovelies: (Goth-rockers 45 Grave) … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Sigmar Polke
If you’re anything like me, you dig Germans and you dig pop art. Sigmar Polke was an experimental painter and photographer from East Germany who, along with Gerhard Richter, started … Continue reading
In the Mood For… Oxblood Leather
Oxblood is the perfect color for recovering goths: It’s still dramatic, but more toned-down and grown-up than black leather. I’m treating it as a neutral these days. Some of my … Continue reading
Ribbon Around A Bomb 