Actors always want to be rock stars. Rock stars always want to act. And painters always want to make movies (okay, maybe just Julian Schnabel). Still, artists of all colors, kinds and credos have been inspired by other artists, and not just…

Hey, it’s video clip round-up time here at YuppiePunk World HQ! And what do all these videos have in common? Nothing!
The legendary Fear performance from SNL in 1981: “John Belushi gets on the phone and he says, “This is John Belushi. I’m a big fan of Fear’s. I made a deal with ‘Saturday Night Live’ [...]

It’s kind of crazy that no film studio has yet to successfully adapted one of Dave Eggers’ books for the big screen. Considering he’s been a literary rock star since the release of his breakout memoir, 2000’s “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” it seems to reason that we’d have seen at least one of [...]

Fifteen years and still going strong, Propagandhi aren’t a band goddammit, they’re a way of life. Either get on board or get the fuck out of their way. The four anti-capitalist vegans from the plains of Winnipeg are a blunt force trauma to the skull of staid punk rock, who aren’t so much a band [...]

It was only a matter of time before punk rock got the Aye Jay treatment. The artist-author, whose books have previously tackled hip-hop (“Gangsta Rap Coloring Book”), the Pitchfork crowd (“Indie Rock Connect the Dots”) and Dirtheads (“Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity Book”), sets his sights on the mohawked masses in his latest volume, “Punk [...]