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The author as a young shaver. It’s something I choose to do everyday, and yet, it is also something that everyday fills me with...
In 1963 a record label began on the 12th floor of 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City by releasing its first LP. Bernard...
For years I have been obsessed with knock off, unlicensed merchandise—famous brands, or characters, that are designed and sold with a seemingly complete disregard...
In the mid-Fifties, a former WWII pilot and post-war British accountant named Edward Craven Walker was at a local English country pub called Queen’s...
Growing up in the Mystery Box-land that is Providence, RI, it has always been a special treat to await the festivities that are annually...
There are times here at Mystery Box H.Q. when I set out to write about a subject that I feel is so undeniably a...
Ah, it’s almost Summertime again my friends. Nothing goes better in these warm, delightful days of the Sun, than a few road trip adventures...
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.” — Andy Warhol “Most people in America think Art is a...
I still find this difficult to believe and am writing this piece while still in a state of grief and sadness. On Friday April...
When I think of the most obsessively fanatical collectors that populate our planet, I have to give the prize to record collectors. Even well...
Some Girls still stands today as one of The Rolling Stones last incredible album masterpieces. While they certainly made some outstanding albums afterwards—Tattoo You...
It’s easy to take entertainment for granted. In our present day we have the ability to purchase and enjoy so many recreational items: play...
The 1920’s was a time not that unlike the 1960’s in that it was a period when new fashions, new music and new freedoms...
Even when I thought I knew just about everything creative, compulsive and crazed when it came to tales of the man and his music,...
Formed in 1979 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Replacements were one of the great groups that merged a love of classic rock, hook-laden bands such as The...
On Tuesday, January 8th at 5:00 AM, David Bowie, on what was his 66th birthday, gave his fans around the world an unprecedented gift by suddenly...
The history and “family trees” of television series spin-offs can be as complicated and intricately detailed as a giant spider’s web in a dark...
Ah, Ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow, The hammer of...
Like many a good upstanding citizen of pop trash culture, Friday night monster movies and Saturday morning cartoons, it has always been a bit...
John Entwistle was the legendary and highly influential bass player for The Who. Before Entwistle, pop music fans of all different styles could care...
It’s that fun time of the year again. A time when the shadows get a little darker, the wind howls a bit more mournfully,...
Despite my hyperbole with the title for this week’s Mystery Box column, there is actually a great cause for celebration to the many of us obsessive...
September 6th marked the anniversary of the death in 1978 of one of music’s great producers of the 1950’s and 1960’s, Tom Wilson. Although his...
It’s been a really good year for album releases by music legends. There have been great albums turned out by the usually reliable: Neil...