
Wax keeps things together: One last plea to save the record store
When you work in music for long enough, you begin to see the same conversations surface, the same arguments made by different people. They might

The Real Meaning of “The Road Not Taken”
It’s graduation season, that special time of year when young people wear robes while booing mentions of AI, and when I get to hear Robert

The Most Interesting Dinner Party in the World
“As I like to say,” booms emcee Josh Gates from the stage, “you’re at the most interesting dinner party in the world!” The gala attendees

Inside The Temple Of The King
In March 1975, Ritchie Blackmore realised he’d be better off without Deep Purple. The guitarist was working on his debut solo album at Musicland Studios

The Legend Behind Monfort Lane – The Fastest Trucks On America’s Highways
In the early 1970s, American trucking was quite different from what it is now. There were no speed limiters and no GPS trackers, and the

VCRs for Rent
The early days of home-video rental were a free-for-all. I don’t just mean the format wars between VHS and Beta. When my family briefly had

the rubble of personal effects
“I always find it curious to discover a home left as if in a state of interrupted daily life, with clothes still hanging like flaccid

Dentside: The sixth generation Ford F-Series
The early 1970s saw Ford and Chevrolet go in two different directions with their respective full-size trucks. While Chevrolet launched the third-generation ‘square body’ C/K

The Case For Unicorns
In a centuries-long case of mistaken identity, we’ve finally rounded up another suspect. The June 11, 2008 discovery of a one-year-old, one-horned deer may put

as free as the sea
There’s something hauntingly beautiful about the freedom of the sea. It’s wild, stretching endlessly, touching every shore without permission, moving as it pleases, crashing and

Stop Children… before they kill again!
Using children in horror tales always helps boost the proportion of peril. By placing an innocent child in danger’s way, the tension is elevated tenfold,

Birth of The Thrasher Skate Rock Cassette Series
Forty-three years ago, Thrasher Magazine hosted the legendary “Two Nights of Skate Rock” in San Francisco to celebrate the release of Thrasher Skate Rock Volume