Watch Bob Dylan’s seldom-seem ‘Hard Rain’ TV concert, and the better version that was shelved
When Hard Rain, Bob Dylan’s much ballyhooed NBC TV special aired on September 14, 1976, I was nine years old. I’d “discovered” Dylan earlier that…
Author: Richard Metzger Archives: 04/2018
God’s Children: This lost Chicano psychedelic soul group sounds like a Latino 5th Dimension
If you found yourself lining up for the abuse/rewards of Record Store Day last weekend, you might have noticed–and perhaps purchased if you did–a newly…
‘King Kong’: Watch a 10-year-old blind pianist play Frank Zappa’s concert showstopper
In the clip below you can watch a 10-year-old blind Swedish pianist by the name of Mats Öberg play the shit out of Frank Zappa…
Meet the David Bowie of Brazil: The wild, weird glam tropicália hybrid of Secos e Molhados
Secos e Molhados (“The Dry & Wet”) was a hybrid glam-rock/Tropicália band formed in Brazil in 1971 during the most repressive phase of the military…
BANG: Proto-doom metal cult band of the early 1970s return!
BANG (L to R): Frank Gilcken (guitar), Tony Diorio (drums), Frank Ferrara (bass) If you’re a fan of the druggy, pimply, riff-laden hesher rock as…
Andy Warhol meets the Cars: The notorious NSFW ‘nude’ version of the ‘Hello Again’ video
Ric Ocasek on the cover of Andy Warhol’s Interview When the Cars released their Heartbeat City album in 1984, they garnered a massive MTV hit…