"Cult Rockers: Rebels" featuring: Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, American Music Club, The Smiths, Alex Chilton, Suicide, Mojo Nixon, The Replacements, Iggy Pop, Roky Erickson, The Seeds, Butthole Surfers
There are albums you immediately like and Something Is Definitely Wrong by EL DESTRUCTO , for me, is one of those. I got the disc a couple weeks ago and I have been completely distracted by it ever since. I haven't been able to listen to anything else since ! My first impression was that they remind me a lot of Suicidal Tendencies and Butthole Surfers. When I got the release today, I was almost surprised...
EL-DESTRUCTO , founded in 1993 by frontman "SATAN BRAIN" and identical twin brother "MR. MOJO", originally started as a Ministry/WhiteZombie style industrial band. During the prenatal stages of El-Destructo, the band relied heavily on members "SCOTT (a.k.a. Fuzz) ANDREWS" and "BIG ROB DALY" for programing. After they left the band to pursue other interests,...
A second collaboration between electronica duo Soulsaver and Mark Lanegan, this time with some help from Will Oldham and the Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes, "Broken" continues in the downbeat, bluesy, static-filled path first set down on 2007's "It's Not How Far you Fall, It's How You Land." There has always been a kind of gospel sound to the work of Mark Lanegan, albeit the kind...
Are You Ready Eddy? – Emerson, Lake & Palmer Ready an’ Willin – Whitesnake Are You Receiving Me? – XTC Talking Loud and Clear – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark So What Happens Now? – Art of Noise We All Stand – New Order What Time Is It? – Spin Doctors 10:15 Saturday Night – The Cure Where are the Prawns? – The [...]
amazingly, Joker wasn't even the most amazing thing i saw at the weekendeven more amazing was the performance by... Jad Fair and Lumberobthere was this two-day festival A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music, curated by Mike Kelley & Mark Beasley - went to the first night, lots of good stuff... others more like "concept sound" e.g. the strange...
MySpace Page Trouser Press Entry Mobilization: The Savage Republic Story (Perfect Sound Forever) Employing such exotic instrumentation as oil drums and metal pipes, Savage Republic were a Los Angeles band whose live shows, according to witnesses, were something to behold. The band recorded a number of albums throughout the 80s, but broke up in the early 90s, only [...] Related posts: Medicine Unofficial...
I posted the beautiful and somber “Pharaoh’s Chariot” from Soulsaver’s third album, Broken, in my Creepy Halloween Mix and liked it so much I decided to look up more songs. I ended up with all of it and a brand-new respect for this joint project of Rich Machin (above, right) and Mark Lanegan (left, [...]
Adam Horovitz will be DJing at the Tony Clifton and Vaginal Davis concert at Santos Party House in New York City next Monday (November 16). Horovitz will share DJ duties with wife Kathleen Hanna and Gibby Haines (Butthole Surfers). Tickets to this 18+ show cost $20 and may be purchased online at Ticketweb . Presumably, Horovitz and Hanna were invited to DJ at Clifton's and Davis' concert when the couple...
If I told you that a particular band in the 90’s opened for the likes of Jawbreaker, Gang of Four, Counting Crows and Jawbox, while also sharing the stage with Green Day, Ben Folds Five, Nada Surf and The Butthole Surfers, you would have to think that this band would have been pretty successful in [...]
Former Turn-Ons frontman Travis DeVries releases his lushly melodic, Britpop-accented album, Death to God , under the group name deVries today on Noise on Noise Records. The record was produced and mixed by the great local studio guru Erik Blood and mastered by Kramer (ex-Butthole Surfers, ex-Bongwater, ex-Shockabilly, etc.). You can download a couple of tracks from the full-length, "Slowing...
East Bay Ray, of Dead Kennedys fame, has entered El Dorado Studios in Los Angeles this week to begin recording a new project. As of right now, the band name has not been revealed, but it features Skip from the Wynona Riders. The record is being produced by Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers, Sublime). The Dead Kennedys declared an indefinite touring hiatus last year due to health issues faced by bassist...
even as the original line-up is whittled away (they’ve never really been the same since cederlund jumped ship for disfear) and they record and tour less and less frequently and the rock and roll shit is sloughed off for a return to their harsher death roots, this swedish collective are still one of my allfuckingtime [...]
by Amanda MarcotteSarah MacLachlan is bringing back the Lilith Fair. I am not thrilled. I didn’t go to it when it last came to Austin, because I was in college then, and had to save my money. The only acts I wanted to see w...
Image from Butthole Surfers’ MySpace Butthole Surfers, Peaches, & MEN Saturday, October 31 Stubbs ( 801 Red River ) 7 p.m. | $30 Advance; $35 At The Door | Outside [ info ] | [ tickets ] Texas has nurtured more than its fair share of talented musical acts over the course of our esteemed history. Buddy Holly, Willie Nelson, ZZ Top, Roy Orbison, and Stevie Ray Vaughan have garnered worldwide...
As most of you are aware, when I’m not opening prescription medication I’ve found in Chris Lombardi’s desk attending marketing meetings at 304 Hudson Street,, I spend the majority of my time in the lovely city of Austin, TX. The region’s musical heritage, while often acknowledged in the major trade fairs and sprawling rock [...]
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