I was scouring Google for a cool picture of The Thing and came across this awesome article written last year by Royal Flush Magazine. The writer had dinner with Frank’s son Ahmet and learned all kinds of great things about the two’s relationship. It makes my heart glow to learn that these two were friends. [...]
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Frank Zappa and Jack Kirby Were Buddies?!?!?
August 1st, 2010 
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Posted in COMICS, MUSIC 
Tags: Ahmet Zappa, COMICS, Dr. Doom, Frank Zappa, Jack Kirby, Royal Flush Magazine, Star Wars 
1 Comment »Heavy Metal T-Shirt Envy
June 29th, 2010 rberry In the ’80s, I was about as far from an Iron Maiden fan as you could get. I had an aversion to most metal and hairbands as a whole then. I was one of those angsty teens that sought out the comfort of The Cure, The Smiths, New Order, and their ilk. Though as a [...]
Posted in MUSIC, RETRO STYLE Tags: iron maiden, metallica, punk rock, rock shirts, rush, t-shirts 3 Comments »The Mad Magazine Mystery Record
June 28th, 2010 rberry In 1980, Mad Magazine had a special record included that had 8 parallel grooves to you’d get different variations of the song “It’s a Super Spectacular Day”, depending on where you put the needle down. I believe this is the only use of this technology in vinyl music history. Here’s a video with all 8 [...]
Katy Perry Goes to Candyland
June 15th, 2010 rberry I really can’t stand the song, but this video sure is a lot of fun, and she’s about as adorable and hot as you can get. Katy gets retro Candyland sexy in this bit for her latest tune “California Gurls”.
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Awesome Late ’70s Rocky Horror News Report Featuring Michael Stipe!
June 4th, 2010 rberry Someone linked this on Facebook and it was too good not to share. This is a typical square look at the Rocky Horror show circa 1978 with a bunch of fun freaks in the audience, but about a minute in you’ll see pre-REM Michael Stipe dressed in full Curry regalia talking about how wonderful the [...]
Meat Loaf’s Latest Keeps Rocking: The retroCRUSH Interview
May 23rd, 2010 rberry Meat Loaf is a force of nature. His 1977 album Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies, making it the 5th best selling disc of all time. Meat Loaf’s vocals mixed with Jim Steinman’s lyrics make it a damn near impossible act to top. But what’s great about Meat is that [...]
American Idol Sucks More Than Ever
May 20th, 2010 rberry Without a doubt, the current season of American Idol has been the worst of them all. They’re supposed to be the best young singers in America, and it’s a collection of incredibly boring and marginally talented karaoke contestants that are a bland copies of people that have already been on the show.
As we go into [...]
Video for M.I.A’s latest “Born Free” Is An Instant Classic
April 27th, 2010 rberry I get a ton of press releases each day from record companies plugging their latest singles. They’re filled with with self serving superlative praise that 98% of the time doesn’t ring true. After checking out the video for M.I.A’s latest single “Born Free”, I’m blown away. I’ll let you discover the contents on your own, [...]