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Holy blog-o-rama, Worleygig.com has just publish our 8,000th post! From the weird and wonderful to the pink and punk rock, The Worley Gig has been delivering the goods for 21 years — and we’re staying Giggy with it.
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In 1987, American artist Mike Kelley (1954 –2012), known for his provocative and often unsettling artworks exploring themes of American popular culture, childhood, and trauma, began to make sculptures from stuffed animals. Kelley described the toys as “the adult’s perfect model of a child”– cute, clean, sexless.” However, Kelley’s plush toys, purchased secondhand from thrift stores and yard sales, were discarded and soiled from use. Seemingly beyond redemption, they are darkly humorous monuments to lost innocence and repressed emotions.
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Today, May 23rd, 2023, Worleygig.com acknowledges a publishing milestone of 7,000 posts online! Thank you, Dear Readers, for helping to make this rad website a global success. As we cruise into our 20th year on the web, we certainly could not do it without your support. Here’s to the next 7,000!
The story of The Worley Gig is a long and winding road of various print and online media that have all come and gone before this blog made its debut ten years ago, in June of 2003. The Gig, which was originally so christened by writer Tim Hall, originated in print in the late 1990s as a local nightlife and music column for an alternative, downtown monthly published here in Manhattan called the New York Hangover. Continue reading The Worley Gig on Starpolish Archives Have Been Recovered
I just spent some serious face time with my pals HTML and The Google in order to update this website’s Interview Links Archive library. Please enjoy.
Update Summer 2020: You may have noticed that we’ve been doing a ton of back-end maintenance on the site since the start of the Covid lockdown. This includes integrating legacy articles and popular columns from now-defunct outlets into the Worleygig‘s existing content. Here’s what we have completed so far.
Redesign Revolution: Face Off Season Four, Weekly Recaps Click Here
Rolling Store Online: CD Reviews and News Articles Click Here
Metal Edge Magazine: Smackin’ Heads Drummer Column Click Here
Please enjoy!