New radicals

By preaching that you didn’t have to already be slim to work out, Simmons reshaped the fitness industry — and ushered in the modern era of exercise.

Dreijer, whether in The Knife or as Fever Ray, has never capitulated to the album promo-tour cycles expected in the popshere.⁠ ⁠ However, in their latest album, Radical Romantics, they have expanded their art into new territories – it is Dreijer at their best, a curious musician and interrogative songwriter exploding and making new the search for love and what it means to love.⁠ ⁠ “I write the lyrics. I consider the stories and let them splay out for me. But music for me is this open…

Like most civil rights movements in the U.S., the gay rights movement began much earlier than popular histories tell us, dating at least as far back the early 1950s with the founding of the Mattachine Society. Named after medieval bards who wandered around challenging injustices, the society had some impressive early success, then fractured over … Continue reading "How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s"

Dreijer, whether in The Knife or as Fever Ray, has never capitulated to the album promo-tour cycles expected in the popshere.⁠ ⁠ However, in their latest album, Radical Romantics, they have expanded their art into new territories – it is Dreijer at their best, a curious musician and interrogative songwriter exploding and making new the search for love and what it means to love.⁠ ⁠ “I write the lyrics. I consider the stories and let them splay out for me. But music for me is this open…

Gay Power (1969-1979) was the self-styled “New York’s first homosexual newspaper’. “Variety is the spice of life and Gay Power is by and for all people,” ran the Gay Power mission statement. “A people is what we shall exemplify first not in any ‘half see how far we can get’ subtle way, but in … Continue reading "Gay Power – The Hip Radicalism of ‘New York’s First Homosexual Newspaper’"

After decades of silence, the composer’s catalog has experienced an extraordinary resurgence.

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Like most civil rights movements in the U.S., the gay rights movement began much earlier than popular histories tell us, dating at least as far back the early 1950s with the founding of the Mattachine Society. Named after medieval bards who wandered around challenging injustices, the society had some impressive early success, then fractured over … Continue reading "How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s"

Dan Friedman (1945 –1995), the father of “Radical Modernism,” wrote: “We should return to a belief in a radical spirit—the idea that design is something that can help improve society and people’s condition.” It is also the underscore of “Dan Friedman: Radical Modernist,” a new exhibition at the Chicago Design Museum from April 28–Aug. 12. Curated by Friedman himself prior to his death in 1995, the exhibit reflects his kaleidoscopic career, such as his influential New Wave typ

Roots Radics - Radical Dub Session (1982)