Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
King Khan & The BBQ Show just dropped a new collection of garage rock classics called Invisible Girl . Chuck Berry meets Circle Jerks? The Seeds meet MC5? Otis Redding meets the Sex Pistols? Here's some tunes from the past to get you acquainted if you aren't already. Desert Mile - King Khan I'll Never Belong - The King Khan & BBQ Show Blow My Top - King Khan & BBQ Show Hold Me Tight - King...
Julian Cope presents Head Heritage (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Julian Cope's Album of the Month, November 2009ce.
Phawker (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
SUN RA ARKESTRA under the direction of Marshall Allen Halloween! Saturday, October 31, 8pm International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street $20 General Admission Join us for this special and spectacular Halloween performance of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Founded in 1958 under the leadership of Sun Ra, the Arkestra pioneered a unique brand of afro-futurism, forging intersecting musical pathways that...
30 seconds over (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Sort of forgot about this one, though it’s really good garage pop, and recently got a mention at Dusted as well. It’s the Impediments…get the hell out of the way. My review at Blurt starts: Four teenagers, crazed by guitars and hormones, slashing out two-chord, one-take bashers at Greg Ashley's Oakland Creamery, full of spit and sweat and balls-out, foul-mouthed aggression... By...
mel.opho.be (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Perhaps psych-rock has been this exciting before, but never has it been so cool and cacophonous as Dark Meat’s Truce Opium . Take Elephant Six, add some MC5 and a dash of Seattle Seven, and you get…well, 18 and change, which is as apt a description as you will find. Reminds us of: Rocket from the Crypt | Black Mountain | Blue Cheer Dark Meat: ( Label | MySpace ) dark meat truce opium...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Question: What happens when you put members of the Stooges and the MC5 -- two of the rawest, most powerful bands of their day -- in a band together? You end up with the five minutes of sustained awesomeness that is “City Slang”. Sonic’s Rendezvous Band featured drummer Scott Asheton and guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith from the aforementioned Detroit protopunk groups. After...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Photograph by Pep Bonet / NOOR Lemmy Kilmister may be the most indestructible rocker alive. At 63 years old, he still spends nearly every day he’s not on tour swilling bourbon at West Hollywood’s legendary rocker hangout the Rainbow Bar & Grill — and his band still plays about 150 shows a year. Rolling Stone’s Mark [...]
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Back in the day, GM really pissed me off. As the American automaker continued its inexorable slide into bankruptcy, executives, analysts, journalists, loyalists and camp followers scoffed at the prospect of disaster. Their scorn fueled my anger or, as Angus Mackenzie would have it, pompous indignation. When the feds bailed-out and then nationalized GM, the company's refusal to overhaul (keelhaul')...
Hongkie Town (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Amazon has been compiling lists of top 100 recordings in various categories and they're actually quite interesting. These seem to reflect actual opinions, sometimes veer away from conventional wisdom and are not compiled with an eye towards commercial sales (to the extent that, as one example the #3 album on their list of live albums is currently not available). I'm sure everyone can find a quibble...
The Poetry Blog (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Submitted by Ted Burke Blog Dickie Peterson, bassist and lead singer for the proto heavy metal band BLUE CHEER, has ascended to the giant E CHORD in the sky. His bandsaw -on-steel vocals, joined with guitarist Leigh Stephens’ PULVERIZING ATONAL GUITAR SOLOS and drummer Paul Whaley’s trash can demolition, Peterson and crew lay the ground work [...]
Lloyd Austins (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
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Robotic Tendencies (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The first Telepathy session session on Saturday evening at the Boston GNOME Summit was very much of a Q&A where myself and Will answered various technical and roadmap issues from a handful of developers and downstream distributors. It showed me that there’s a fair amount of roadmap information we should do better at communicating outside [...]
SibLINGSHOT ON THE BLEACHERS (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
A re-up, to those in the loop, from July last year. "...If The Stooges and MC5 were progenitors of punk in the U.S., then Pink Fairies were sperm donors who refused to fuck about." illustration ™ N ib E AIR. ▼ PINK FAIRIES: DO IT from "NeverNeverLand" LP (Polydor) 1971 (UK)
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental fille de woohoo! Fah Lo Suee and I are heading off to [insert your own vaguely smutty and/or political joke here -- it's been a tiring week and I'm frankly out of gas]. So posting by moi will more than likely be sporadic for a little while. But in the meantime, here's another little project for us all: Most Memorable Post-Elvis Record...
Charlotte Observer: Sports (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Tool Name tool goes here Prep Results 10.07.09Posted: Thursday, Oct. 08, 2009CROSS COUNTRYCROSS COUNTRYCISAA 5K MEETAt Charlotte LatinGIRLS' TOP INDIVIDUALS: 1. Kathleen Elkins (Woodlawn) 20:26; 2. Hannah Smith (Latin) 20:38; 3. Hannah Cline (Country Day) 21:27; 4. Laura Gill (Latin) 21:41; 5. Ally Finical (Latin) 21:43.BOYS' TOP INDIVIDUALS: 1. Tim Gruber (Concord Cannon) 16:54; 2. Sawyer Bowman (Woodlawn)...
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craigrom | 07/23/2009
Austin, Texas has a vibrant live music scene, and boasts more music venues per capita than any other city in the United States. Austin’s music scene revolves mainly around the many nightclub venues on 6th Street, but the pinnacle is argu...
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