Julian Cope

Unsung - Album Of The Month December 2009ce: Postpunksampler

Julian Cope presents Head Heritage (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009

Julian Cope's Album of the Month, December 2009ce.

Julian Cope - Live Japan '91

Ripped In Glasgow (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009

Superb live set from 1991, released 'to undermine the current slew of mediocre Cope bootleg recordings available, with handsomely packaged alternative releases', according to the Head Heritage website. Well fuck me, this is classic Cope from his Peggy Suicide tour. I couldn't believe it when this popped up to buy (briefly) on his site. Check the set out - a nice wee mix of Peggy stuff with a few oldies...

Julian Cope’s Album of the Month

the central shaft (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009

No-Show Report: Zunou Keisatsu

Japan Live (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009

Brain Police, also known as “the radical protest band” Zunou Keisatsu , is near the zenith of the celestial list of legendary Japanese rock groups, so when I heard they had reunited and were doing a national tour, I was intrigued. But, for a variety of reasons I ended up not making it to the Tokyo shows, a major one being that the tickets were pricey, about three times the cost of regular...

[Documentary] Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

The Decibel Tolls (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

The recent BBC Four documentary Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany, the most thorough examination of the genre since Julian Cope’s definitive Krautrocksampler, has finally made its way onto the Interwebs. And it’s as solid as you’d expect. From the BBC: “Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look beyond western rock [...]

DROP "Definitive" 30th Anniversary release

Baggage Reclaim (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

To celebrate its 30th Anniversary, I have decided to make available the "legendary" cassette "Definitive" by my band of the time, Drop. Copies of this cassette have been circulating for many years, Radio Cleveland played bits of it over the airwaves, Julian Cope raved about it and unsuccessfully tried to get us signed to Zoo records, and markhammonds probably still has a copy wrapped...

Song of the Week: "Upwards at 45 Degrees" by Julian Cope

Timedoor (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

Song of the Week: “Upwards at 45 Degrees” by Julian Cope

For the Caveman Won't Leave You Alone

Erik's Choice (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Once upon a time, Roky Erickson of Austin, Texas, helped pioneer psychedelic rock via The Spades ("We Sell Soul") and The 13th Floor Eelvators . His impact was significant enough to inspire Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson (1990) and to renewed efforts by Erickson, plus more recent releases of his earlier work. One of my favorite tracks on the tribute compilation...

Noughties By Nature #12: British Sea Power - No Lucifer

Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

It should have all been so easy (easy! easy!). Produced with no little grandeur by G!YBE figurehead Efrim Menuck, Do You Like Rock Music? was supposed to have been the album that made British Sea Power go stratospheric, and with Waving Flags, they'd got their foot in the door. All they needed was one final charge, and when 'No Lucifer' was announced as the follow-up, success was assured...so they decided...

Video Premiere: White Hills, "Dead"

Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

The psych/garbage/space rock trio White Hills fall into that Brooklyn corner where the songs are long and aliases abide--like their close affiliates Oneida, White Hills' Dave W., Ego Sensa...

Unsung - Album Of The Month November 2009ce: The Godlike Genius of Blue Cheer

Julian Cope presents Head Heritage (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

Julian Cope's Album of the Month, November 2009ce.

Tinariwen: Getting booked

No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009

Some ideas you can never quite classify as being audacious or just economy-brand terrible. So it is with plans for a book about Tinariwen, written by their manager Andrew Morgan: Andy describes his book as "a full length work of documentary 'faction', told either from the first person point of view, with plenty of my own experiences of meeting the band and traveling to the desert, or more from...

TPAC Tunes

Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009

Julian Cope - Upwards At 45 Degrees FALL- 'Plug Myself In' Musical Tribute To The Oscar Meyer Weiner Wagon - Baroques Moby Grape - Naked If I Want To

Faust Among Equals: BBC's Krautrock Doc

Line Out (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009

BBC just aired a documentary titled Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany . If it isn't yet, it should be floating around somewhere on the net. You're more savvy than I am in these matters, so I'm confident you can locate it with a little fingerwork. Oh, it looks like you can view (most of) it here . Below is a segment on Kraftwerk , who are probably the best-known German group that flourished during...

Julian Cope - Concert Climax - Live In The Hearing Of The Motherfucker

Ripped In Glasgow (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

Another Cope oddity, this time supposedly on "Southern Cross Recordings" from Italy, circa 2005, but you can never be sure. A live recording from the Royal Festival Hall, this features mostly new(ish) tracks, apart from Easter Everywhere (from his shittest album, My Nation Underground), which I saw him play in 1988 at this gig . Very bizarre, it is ripped from a CD that I bought off his website...