OFFMESSAGE (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Just seen the title track of the new Primal Scream album on The Culture Show. Spent the first half wondering why I thought I’d heard it before and the second half marveling that the Quark, Strangeness and Charm-era Hawkwind sound is getting another outing. Seriously, get yourself a listen to QS&C and you’ll see what I [...]
MusicEmissions (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Farflung are a band who have been carving themselves a path through the underground for over a decade, working themselves up that hill slowly but surely. Their music certainly pushes for the stars, and as a matter of fact it all seems to take place amongst them. Think space-rock by way of Hawkwind and couple it with a modern psychadelic edge that also seems to orbit stoner rock territory. They've...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Sex Pistols played to one of the biggest crowds of the weekend at the second day of the Barcelona leg of the Summercase Festival last night (July 19).
History is made at night (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Bob from Brockley has alerted to me Primal Scream's cover version of Hawkwind's Urban Guerrilla, to which they have added the lyric 'I'm a suicide bomber'. The story of my adolescent fixation on Hawkwind and the anarcho-trance-rock-underground can wait for another post, but what of the Primals? I must be one of the few people who think that Primal Scream were at their fey/faux psychdelic peak in their...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Arts & entertainment: In 1979, music critic Dave Simpson went to a gig that changed his life. Would the magic still be there now?
To the People (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
If the whole heavy metal thing doesn't work out Motorhead's Lemmy might want to make a switch to fashion consultant: Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, former Hawkwind member and the longtime singer/bassist/wart-wielder of metal legend Motörhead, has pissed off some Germans by wearing a Nazi hat for a photo shoot for a German newspaper. Such displays of Nazi paraphernalia are illegal in Germany, and an official...
Bearded Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The UK's finest rock and metal weekend boot camp extravaganza Hard Rock Hell is back for another year and this time, it's bigger, harder and stronger and more likely to sell out quicker than last year's quite literally roaring success.
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Marcel Marceau, the world's most famous mime artist (by virtue of the fact that no-one can name another) is quite a coup for Electric Roulette. He's decided to do our single and album reviews. As well as being a dope-ass...
Cool Noise (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Chorlton’s Dulcimer Bar (”Fine Ale and Finer Folk”) hosts the frankly weird and quite refreshingly wonderful world of Circulus. To call Dulcimer a venue is stretching it a little – this is more like watching a gig in your front room (although to be strictly accurate those of us who remember the former incarnation as Quarmby’s stationers know it as the erstwhile toys and games department)....
A Motörhead fan-blog (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Having been recently listening again to NWOBHM band Wolfbane's track Elric of Melniboné I was reminded of how many other musical homages were extended in favour of the man of the feeble blood. Hawkwind's many wonderous compositions of course; including the eternal champion orientated classic "Warrior On The Edge Of Time" to the mid-eighties "Chronicle Of The Black Sword". Another favourite track of...
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Freed from a weekly radio commitment , I now relish the opportunity to listen to music the old way, the natural way, without always auditioning everything and imagining segues and conceptual ties, calculating the booty-shake quotient and all that baggage. This, of course, necessitates an honest reappraisal of my record collection, a little soul-searching, and some cold hard looks at just why...
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Pictured: The Cancer Bats Radio 1 DJ Daniel P Carter announces his own stage at this year's Hard Rock Hell 2 Festival at Pontins, Prestatyn, and N. Wales on December 5th, 2008 ...
StarShipSofa Podcast: science ficti (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
In November 2007 StarShipSofa blasted off and flew to Paris to interview then to be crowned Science Fiction Grand Master, Michael Moorcock. Along with StarShipSofa, Cage TV came for the ride and provided all equipment, camera man and sound man. Over a weekend StarShipSofa delved into all manner of things with this legend… from Hawkwind and the infamous house at Ladbroke Rd...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Ish fuggin, like, y'know who Iam eh? Fuggin', Ozinnit? Likeshumayouse seenme on tha' fuggin' tellyshow on MTV wivmafuggin' mental, fuggin', family and that. Shumayouse seenme singin' withmebandsandthat. Black Sabbath. Bitofftheheadofabat... or summat... tookaleak on The Alamo. Can't really fuggin' rememberlike....
AngryApe News (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
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