music Listen to the deeply weird rock covers on the mysterious "Woodstock Al" cassette David Pescovitz

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

tech The reMarkable Tablet is moving to a subscription service model Séamus Bellamy

Spoken Word with Electronics How to turn a broken dishwasher into a synthesizer Ethan Persoff

propaganda I just learned about the strange history of Exxon-sponsored showtunes Thom Dunn

Spoken Word with Electronics How "Marijuana, the Devil's Flower" may have sounded like in 1951, as heard on Shortwave Radio, inside a Bomb Shelter Ethan Persoff

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

cults Music of Mind Control — radio program about songs recorded by cults Mark Frauenfelder

1960s JOHN WILCOCK: Andy Warhol's issue of ASPEN MAGAZINE and "Loop," the first pressed Velvet Underground single. Ethan Persoff

Kids Fighting Japanese goblins in 1934, Betty Boop style Andrea James

Comics The FUGS First Rehearsal and Lou Reed's Earliest Known Recording of 'Heroin' Ethan Persoff

wilcock JOHN WILCOCK: Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce! Ethan Persoff

wilcock JOHN WILCOCK: The History of ECHO, "The Magazine You Play on Your Phonograph" (1958) Ethan Persoff