Video footage of NOFX’s Vegas show wound up on TMZ three days after their performance. The outrage pendulum swung back and forth like this until it eventually struck, of all people, four idiots in a punk band. In turn, right-wingers were clapping back at comedian Samantha Bee for calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt,” for which she ultimately issued an apology. That same week, Roseanne Barr was facing public blowback for a tweet in which she likened Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape, resulting in ABC canceling her TV show. On any other day, this likely would’ve passed as another example of NOFX being punk’s boorish jesters, but the news cycle was in a particularly weird place that week in 2018. A documentary was once made about them touring the world, doing the things they’re best known for: namely, snorting copious amounts of drugs and visiting S&M clubs. The cover of one of their most famous albums, 1996’s Heavy Petting Zoo, features a man sexually pleasuring a sheep. Damon Albarn: Murdoc of GorillazSick of the disposable pop groups they saw on MTV and itching to experiment with hip-hop, Blur frontman Damon Albarn and his flatmate and illustrator Jamie Hewlett concocted the idea of the fictional, animated band Gorillaz in 1998.For those who haven’t been following NOFX over their 36-year existence, they’ve made a career out of crude jokes. Soon his “space trios” morphed into the sprawling Arkestra band that travelled the country and even became a musical commune complete with “Ra houses”. As he stated in a documentary, “Since I don’t consider myself as one of the humans, I’m a spiritual being myself.” Born Herman Blount in 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama, he gained a reputation in Chicago working as an arranger for Fletcher Henderson, before completely reinventing himself and abandoning his “slave name” for Sun Ra. Herman Blount: Sun RaSome musicians embody alter egos for a just one performance, an album cycle or a few years, but none come close to the artistic commitment of legendary jazz composer, keyboardist and bandleader Sun Ra, who really believed he was an angel from Saturn – both onstage and off. The provocative album would fuel rumours in the decades that followed, implying that Pac had somehow survived the Las Vegas shooting and faked his own death, just as Machiavelli had claimed to do so in his political treatise, The Prince. It was first introduced on his album and later immortalised in 1996’s The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, released posthumously just a few months after Tupac was fatally shot. Reportedly became enamoured with the 16th-century Florentine philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli while reading his work in prison and took on the persona Makaveli. After being sacked from a producing gig on Mary Margaret O’Hara’s Miss America record, XTC frontman Andy Partridge and producer John Leckie decided to use their compensation money from Virgin and record some psychedelic tracks that Partridge and Colin Moulding had written, but which were too experimental for XTC.The result was a mysterious new band called The Dukes Of Stratosphear, and two albums ( 25 O’Clock and Psonic Psunspot) that outsold their XTC records. XTC: The Dukes Of StratosphearThe long-underrated UK band’s psychedelic alter ego was borne out of a joke rather than artistic vision. The Duke eventually landed Bowie in hot water for his more controversial statements, which he attributed to the character. Soon after, Bowie debuted his third persona, The Thin White Duke, a mad aristocrat whose look closely resembled Bowie’s humanoid alien character Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell To Earth. Not wanting to be stuck as Ziggy forever, Bowie killed off the character to become Aladdin Sane, a harder, nastier persona inspired by dark decadence of America.
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