Music
Kink Goes Pink
by Sharon MesmerMusic
Hugh Hefner had his reasons for not “going pink”—showing pussy—in Playboy.
Angular Banjos
by Paul GrimstadMusic
In 1955 a piece of music premiered that briefly reconciled the warring factions of the European avant-garde.
The Last Bandit: Nikki Sudden, 1956–2006
by Mike LupicaMusic
The squawking guitar that kickstarts “Let’s Build a Car” by the Swell Maps is a strident, clattering testament to the musical creativity that exploded out of the UK in the mid-seventies.
Dimensions in Music: From Mambo to Salsa, Part Four
by Alan LockwoodMusic
Drafted into Fort Dix after the Korean War, Robert Farris Thompson heard the Seventh Army needed a historian and volunteered.
