‘Follow the Sun’: FM radio-perpetrated pop fodder from 1970s Australia
When Anthology Recordings’s ace publicist Jess Rotter asked me if we wanted to premiere something from the label’s upcoming Australian 70s folk-rock compilation Follow the…
Author: Richard Metzger Archives: 03/2017
‘Sunday Morning’ animation celebrates ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico,’ released 50 years ago today
When illustrator James Eads saw the morphing gifs Chris McDaniel (aka TheGlitch.og) made from his work, he described the result as not “moving so as…
United States of Horror: Hardcore hip-hop militant metal anarcho-punk band arrives in time for Trump
Yesterday I got a call from my pal Adam Starr, a VP of marketing at Caroline. Adam was a big Crass fan when he was…
‘Street Hassle’: When Lou Reed met Bruce Springsteen
For his 1978 Street Hassle album, Lou Reed became the first major artist to produce an album using the “Binaural” sound recording system, a two-channel…
Laserbeams, disco balls, smoke machines and ANALOG SYNTHESIZERS: Tim Blake’s Crystal Machine
When Gong’s pioneering synthesizer player Tim Blake exited the proggy spacerock group in 1975, he began an influential partnership with French lighting designer Patrice Warrener.…
Lou Reed’s speedfreak symphony: ‘Metal Machine Music’ and me
Today would have been the 75th birthday of Lewis Allan Reed and to mark this occasion, I wanted to rerun one of my favorite posts…