‘It’s All True’: Experimental opera based on Fugazi’s live tapes?
Photo of Object Collective by Henrik Beck Object Collection, an experimental performance outfit from Brooklyn, has recorded an “opera-in-suspension” based on the Fugazi Live Series.…
Author: Oliver Hall
David Lynch recites Captain Beefheart’s ‘Pena’
Don Van Vliet, ‘Crepe and Black Lamps’ (via beefheart.com) Among the treasures stored on Magic Band alumnus Gary Lucas’ Soundcloud is this recording of David…
‘Who ate my pie?’ David Byrne plays boorish, mustachioed, pie-loving drunk on PBS sitcom
The first episode of the PBS anthology series Trying Times (originally called Survival Guide) was directed by Jonathan Demme. “A Family Tree” stars Rosanna Arquette…
Nico sings Serge Gainsbourg, bares all in ‘Strip-Tease’
Between appearing in La Dolce Vita and cutting a single with Jimmy Page and Andrew Loog Oldham, Nico beat out Ursula Andress for the lead…
‘Metal Man Has Won His Wings’: Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa’s early ’60s R&B band, the Soots
Zappa at the door to Studio Z in Cucamonga Briefly, during 1963 and 1964, Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa were in a proto-Magic Band called…
Adam Ant, John Cale, Ad-Rock and others guest star on ’80s crime drama ‘The Equalizer’
Edward Woodward and Adam Ant on the cover of Ant News Today, 1985 The Equalizer was a crime drama starring Edward Woodward (The Wicker Man‘s…
The Doors’ last charting single, ‘The Mosquito,’ as marketed by Presbyterians on Christian radio
One hears a lot of contrary opinions, spending year after year in the orbit of musicians, record collectors, and resentful nerds. That the Beatles “sucked”…
William S. Burroughs’ answer to the Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save the Queen’
The author at home It’s the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen,” and you know what that means: it’s the 40th…
‘Dirt Sounds’: A record made of dirt from Brian Wilson’s childhood home
Working with my friend LeRoy Stevens of the record label Small World, the LA-based artist Jeff Hassay has created an audio souvenir of Brian, Dennis,…
Hear a full confession from Tricky Dick on the novelty single ‘The Altered Nixon Speech,’ 1973
(via Syntonic Research Irv Teibel Archive) The immediate ancestor of the “Rappin’ Ronnie” record was The Altered Nixon Speech, a one-minute tape collage made from…