Death Metal Death Metal Grandma Rusty Blazenhoff

music Listen to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore lovely cover of the Velvet Underground's "Heroin" David Pescovitz

The 1960s Watch Chappaqua, a 1966 cult film that features a pantheon of 60s luminaries Popkin

COVID-19 Celebrating the mad genius of music producer Hal Willner, who has died, likely of COVID-19 Gareth Branwyn

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein

Trivia Hooray! I'm not the stupidest person at the 2015 Trivia Championships of North America Jackie Fuchs

William S. Burroughs and the Dead-End Horror of the Centipede God Mark Dery

promoted John Cusack in hacker-land Xeni Jardin