Sign Up
Welcome home! Here at WTMX you can make new friends and meet people with the same interests as you. All free and ad-free.
Art and Culture
Entertainment & Arts
3 years ago
- ·
- 20-05-2021
Janis Joplin Plays a Passionate Folk Blues Set at One of Her First Gigs in San Francisco (1963)
From her early, unhappy teen years in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis Joplin seemed to know she wanted to be a blues singer.
The First Cellphone: Discover Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X, a 2-Pound Brick Priced at $3,995 (1984)
We get the culture our technology permits, and in the 21st century no technological development has changed culture like that of the smartphone.
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai: An Introduction to the Iconic Japanese Woodblock Print in 17 Minutes
When woodcut artist Katsushika Hokusai made his famous print The Great Wave off Kanagawa in 1830 -- part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji -- he was 70 years old and had lived his entire li...
Why Collect? A Conversation about Collectibles from Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast (#92)
What drives someone to collect Star Wars figures or Transformers or LEGOs or whatever else?
4 years ago
The Original Star Wars Trilogy Adapted into a 14-Hour Radio Drama by NPR (1981-1996)
When it opened in 1977, Star Wars revived the old-fashioned swashbuckling adventure film. Within a few years, National Public Radio made a bet that it could do the same for the radio drama.
“Prince and the Revolution: Live,” the Historic 1985 Concert Is Streaming Online
A quick heads up. The Prince Estate has released Prince and the Revolution: Live, a historic concert captured at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY on March 30, 1985.
Robert Fripp & King Crimson Perform a Stirring Cover of “Heroes,” Shortly after David Bowie’s Death (2016)
In 2016, King Crimson performed ‘Heroes’ at the Admiralspalast in Berlin, just after David Bowie’s death, and nearly forty years after the song was written and recorded next to the Berlin Wall.
Does Local News Deserve More of Your Attention? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #44 w/ Deion Broxton of Bison Meme Fame
Is news entertainment? To what extent has local news consumption decreased given the alternatives? Deion is an on-air reporter for NBC Montana who was recently memified for fleeing amusingly from some...
5 years ago
Who Is Neil Young?: A Video Essay Explores the Two Sides of the Versatile Musician–Folk Icon and Father of Grunge
Neil Young has worked with Rick James in the Mynah Birds and David Crosby, Steven Stills, and Graham Nash in CSNY. He’s recorded everything from tearjerking piano ballads to brilliantly meandering psy...
Keith Moon Plays Drums Onstage with Led Zeppelin in What Would Be His Last Live Performance (1977)
When Led Zeppelin appeared in late 1968, they already had the makings of a supergroup, so to speak, though only founding member Jimmy Page was a famous rock star. Four equally talented and seasoned mu...
Discover Kōlams, the Traditional Indian Patterns That Combine Art, Mathematics & Magic
Have accomplished abstract geometrical artists come out of any demographic in greater numbers than from the women of South Asia?