Musically, this is exactly the same as Helen Love’s previous Radio Hits, Shifty Disco Girl, Does Your Heart Go Boom and the Peel favourite Girl About Town. And, like most other Helen Love songs, it mentions The Ramones, discos, beaches, and a story about a boy and girl in love. But Debbie Loves Joey is a culmination of everything that is really quite good about Helen Love’s other songs,...
by Amanda Marcotte I think I’ve blogged about this before, but briefly, but fuck it, I’m annoyed. As you probably know by now, a biopic about The Runaways is in the works. on paper, this sounds like a fabulous idea, sinc...
EVENINGS in front of the television are always a trial when you've got teenage daughters, but the last few weekends have been particularly traumatic. The schedules have be
Oliver Ho puts the spotlight on horror masters Kazuo Umezu and Hideshi Hino at Pop Matters. The Yaoi Review asks readers to recommend yaoi for first-timers, and the comments section is bulging with suggestions. There’s more reader reaction at Japanator, where Danica Davidson asks the internet what it thinks of manga omnibuses. David Welsh is irritated that the [...]
John Lydon has confirmed that Public Image Ltd will record new material in the near future – if they can raise enough cash on their forthcoming tour. The punk band, formed by Lydon after the demise of the Sex Pistols, recently reformed for five UK dates in December.
It's always a good day for music fans when John Lydon is in the news. Hell, it's a good day for everybody, especially those of us who enjoy wacky stories on the internet. Most of the recent hype concerning the Sex Pistols/Public Image Limited vocalist has been as a result of his appearances on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Judge Judy, and a now-notorious butter commercial. Apparently the...
The Faces without Rod Stewart, it's like...well, The Stooges without Iggy. But that could be a reality in 2010, with the band planning on touring without Rod the mod. Oh yes, it gets much much worse. While Rod has recently...
OK--students in my cultural studies course had a bit of a crisis because half of their presentation group dropped out. They are doing a presentation on the Goth subculture and the two members that dropped out were covering the music. So I offered to help out with an introduction to the roots of the Goth sound (as a non-expert)... here is what I came up with, anyone want to suggest additions? 1970s:...
Quietus: What do you think it was about the recording environment that turned Cut into such a great record? Ari Up: The Slits developed the Slits sound. To this day, no one sounds like us, no one. People trying to...
Michael Chabon's celebrated science fiction and geeky pop culture, and his latest book Manhood For Amateurs is a love letter to fandom. So when we managed to ask him a few questions, we were excited... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
NEW YORK (Reuters) –A major new photography exhibit is built around the idea that the eyes are just as important as the ears for appreciating and understanding rock 'n' roll. The Brooklyn Museum's sprawling show "Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present" opened on Friday as a study in the contrasts that run through the rock music subculture. Nearly 200 photographs, videos,...
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) –Fox Searchlight wants to be sedated. The specialty division is in negotiations to board a project about the life of the Ramones, based on the upcoming memoir "I Slept With Joey Ramone," by the musician's brother, and featuring the band's tunes. The project, which initially had been conceived independently under manager-producer Rory Rosegarten, would get a significant...