Booker T. & the MGs cover the Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’
In spring of 1970, mere months after the Beatles released Abbey Road, the Stax label’s elite house band Booker T. and the MGs released McLemore…
Author: Ron Kretsch Archives: 01/2015
‘Records Collecting Dust’: New doc on collecting vinyl with Jello Biafra and other fanatatics
As record collecting’s resurgence continues to grow, so does the sub-industry of proffering opinions about the phenomenon. Annual pro- and anti-Record Store Day think pieces…
Snatch and the Poontangs: Johnny and Shuggie Otis’ filthy, hilarious blues/soul party record
In 1969, an eponymous LP appeared by “Snatch and the Poontangs,” first as a self-release (catalog number SNATCH 101), and later on Kent Records. Given…
Psychoactive sci-fi surrealism: The book covers that inspired XTC’s Andy Partridge
I’d love to live in a world where the great commercial artists of the past—the visionary men and women who could easily have been heralded…
Aaaaaand here’s a cremation urn shaped like Barack Obama’s head
Last week we told you about Pet Photo Fun, the surely well-meaning but perhaps a tad strange people who’ll animate a photo of your dead…