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A historical marker was recently unveiled in honor of 2nd Lt. Thadd H. Blanton, an airman from Gainesville, Texas, who participated in the legendary “Doolittle” air raid over Japan in April 1942.
On catching up with Sofie, we discuss her career trajectory and what it was like to create an erotic illustration series without being allowed to show genitalia.
Laugh-In. Or, to give its proper name, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (1968-73), a TV series and pop-culture phenomenon whose second and third seasons ranked #1 in the ratings. This whirlwind of the sophisticated and corny was certifiably hip, hot and happening, “what it is” and “where it’s at”. Seemingly everyone in America watched it and quoted it, and everyone in celebrity-land vied to get on it. You kind of had to be there. The gravy train ended when the public tired sufficiently to drop the show from the Top 30 during its sixth season of 1972-73, just as the Watergate scandal w...
“We've always been noisemakers. I mean, even in the studio, you know, we've got so many things to play with. That's how [ The Fickle Finger of Fate, Crover's first solo album] started — with the little weird things — and this one kind of has the same stuff, but I made them a little bit different,” Crover says over the phone. Diehard Phoenix fans may recall hearing Crover's band play many of the songs off The Fickle Finger of Fate when they opened for Redd Kross at Last Exit Live in December 2018. It seems, though, that revisiting the solo world was a foregone conclusion for the Los...
Dale Crover ( Melvins / Redd Kross) would fill the time by recording a solo album. The reality is, Crover had already written and recorded Rat-a-Tat-Tat! ( Joyful Noise Recordings) by the time the pandemic had shut down the world and he was actually looking forward to hitting the road to support his second full-length solo album, a follow-up to 2017’s The Fickle Finger of Fate. In his drumming day gig, Crover balances his time between the heavy, sludginess of the Melvins and the power-pop stylings of Redd Kross and his own material, not so surprisingly, falls somewhere between the two. ...