What a great band name! I was curious as to whether these guys could live up to their moniker, but thankfully their uber-lo-fi psyche-folk sound is every bit as good as their name would suggest. In fact they have a name for their sound too, they have lovingly christened it “shitgaze.” I think that name is a bit misleading though—to me their sound conjures up images of Neil Young smoking crack instead of weed, and burning out from too much Nintendo.

Psychedelic Horseshit is comprised of Matt Whitehurst and Rich Johnston. Coming from the jam band scene of Columbus, Ohio, they have released numerous CD-rs in the past, as well as official releases on the Siltbreeze and Woodsist labels. They’ve just been picked up by the UK’s FatCat (home of Animal Collective) and their next full length, entitled Laced, will be with us on the 16th of May. You can listen to (and pre-order) the album on the Fat Cat website.
 

 
In the run up to the album release the band are running a campaign called “Shitty Sundays” where every Sunday, from now til mid-May. they will be giving away a group of tracks as a free download. The first zip file (available here) contains a bizarre “DJ mix” of the album’s title track “Laced” and a couple of shorter psyche-friendly skits. Yes, this is quite odd music, but if you like your country and folk with a twist, or if you just like odd music (period) then this band is definitely worth checking out. Purely in the interest of research, here is some more Psychedelic Horseshit:
 
Psychedelic Horseshit - “Out Of Control No.36”
 

 
Psychedelic Horseshit - “Endless Fascination”
 

 
Psychedelic Horseshit - “Portals”
 

Bebop jazzmen Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Carter are greeting each other with
“Bell man! where have you been?”
 
Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Carter demonstrate the art of the bebop greeting as featured in Life magazine, October 11, 1948.

The bebop greeting is an esoteric jazz tradition going back to the bop dens of ancient Egypt (home of the Pharaoh of Sanders). Initiates have passed these bebop handshakes, mudras and mantras down over the centuries and they were a highly kept secret until revealed in the mid-twentieth century by unscrupulous jazzbos who clearly had no understanding of the old ways. The bebop greetings Benny and Dizzy are demonstrating in these photos are not authentic bebop ritual. If they were, both men would be subject to immediate elimination by the society of jazzassassins, a ninja-like organization originated by Rahsaan Roland Kirk and formerly known as the saxassassinators.
 

Dizzy and Benny are giving the shout “Eel-ya-da” which sounds like
bebop triplet notes.
 

The connection is made.
 

“Later. Keep it cool”

 
Thanks to the lovely rose petal known as “Lady” for setting the Women’s Movement back 100 years with her song “Yankin’.” YouTuber Ninjaturtleadeel nails it with:

“H Caiiint een Lahhh Ah Fuk BettA WheN Ahm Drankin” she’s referring to the struggles she faces day to day that this capitalistic society puts her through and how sex and drinking is her only reliable outlet to remind her of the freedom and comforts she once had while growing up…and she’s embarking on something completely new by expressing her confidence in her vaginal muscle skills. We’re witnessing the birth of the new Mother Teresa.

Good grief.

 
(via TDW)

 
Although it may look quaint to our presently ultra-digitized visual awareness, Scott Bartlett‘s OffOn (1967) is a powerful,resourceful and successful conveyance of the psychedelic experience in sight and sound. It doesn’t hurt that the synth score by one Manny Meyer is pure proto-industrial brilliance. Really bold. I’ll say it again: It’s wonderful to have things like this available to all when once it was only viewable by academics and institutions. Included here also is a making of/re-creation of OffOn produced in tandem with a class taught by Bartlett at UCLA in 1980.
 

 
Moon 1969 by Scott Bartlett after the jump…

 
Once again Dangerous Minds has digitized Nate Cimmino for your conspicuous consumption. Sounds kind of barbaric, doesn’t it? For the purpose of rumination, this offering was conceived in two parts. The Sacred and The Profane. And, they are completely interchangeable, much as in life, so you may do what thou wilt with them.
 
01. Robert Palmer-Love Can Run Faster (Lee “Scratch” Perry Version)
02. B.S. Pully Intro
03. Joe Bataan-Chick A Boom
04. The Equals-Diversion
05. The Eloise Trio-Chi Chi Merengue
06. Miles Davis-Zimbabwe (edit/excerpt)
07. Muddy Waters- Hoochie Coochie Man
08. Howlin’ Wolf- Back Door Man
09. Greg Wall- Ofan (A Wheel Within A Wheel)
10. Rashanim- Seg Ug’di
11. Sort Sol and Lydia Lunch- As She Weeps
12. Love Of Life Orchestra- Beginning Of The Heartbreak / Don’t Don’t
13. A Secular Exegesis du Jour
 

 
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Video Bonus: The Equals Live In Germany 1966

 
The wild world of dancing to recorded music, the discotheque! The newest dance sensations today are the Frug, the Watusi, the Dog, Swim, Bird and the Mosquito.

The bizarre concept of phoning in your dance requests must have been a Chicago phenomenon and a short lived one. Today’s world is perfect for reviving this idea: tweet a dancer and request the Mosquito or the Bird. Now that would be groovy.

Music by The Squires.
 

 
At a time when the shelf life of bands can be stretched way past the point of credibility, it’s a great statement to just stop. Last night LCD Soundsystem, one of the actual bands shaping the “post-Nirvana era,” bowed out with their final ever live show at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

They may have divided opinion with their recorded work, but one thing is for sure, they were a really great live act. One of the best modern live acts, in fact, an asset that took them out of the realm of hipper-than-thou and into the mainstream. I think I saw them four times in total, and they got better and better (as did their records). For their last show they are on mighty form, and this is recommended viewing for both fans and fence-sitters alike:
 

 
Thanks Teamy!

 
Dangerous Minds recently featured Wolfgang Buld’s Punk In England. Well, our good friends at See Of Sound have have made available Buld’s first documentary on British punk, Punk In London. This is from a re-mastered DVD and looks and sounds far better than my old VHS copy.

This acclaimed feature length music documentary comes to special edition DVD featuring incredible live performances from: The Clash, X-Ray Spex, The Jam, Boomtown Rats, The Adverts, The Lurkers and many more! Digitally remastered to the highest standard from the original 1978 negatives by BBC Post Production, this access-all-areas documentary really captures the punk phenomenon in all its raw power and energy. Featuring early live performances from The Clash, X-Ray Spex, The Jam, The Adverts and interviews with those who strived for anarchy in the UK, Punk in London is a unique and powerful record of punk life as it really happened in the late 1970s. Filled with stunning live performance and insightful interviews, this remastered DVD-9 release features incredible picture and sound clarity along with previously unseen bonus footage of The Clash in Munich. Also included is a retrospective interview with director, Wolfgang Buld and trailers for other Odeon documentaries.”

You may want to own this one. You can buy it here.

“Why don’t you want to appear in our movie?”
Jean-Jacques Burnel: “Because I’m not a prostitute.”
 

 
Cornershop are back, with a new album Cornershop and The Double O Groove Of, and a strangely hypnotic video of young men getting their hair cut for the track “Supercomputed”. The album has been 6 years in the making, with funds being cobbled together via the website Pledgemusic (even though the band self-released the album Judy Sucks On A Lemon in 2009).

Cornershop and The Double O Groove Of is a collaboration with the Preston-based Punjabi singer Bubbley Kaur, who takes the lead vocal on most tracks, and has never made an appearance on record before (bar the 2004 Cornershop single “Topknot/Natch”). This seems quite incredible as she is a great find. And according to music biz legend, it never would have happened were it nor for the interjections of a friendly London cab driver. Cor blimey guvnor!

Cornershop ft Bubbley Kaur - “Supercomputed”
 

 
Cornershop ft Bubbley Kaur - “Topknot”
 

 
Cornershop ft Bubbley Kaur - “Don’t Shake It”
 

It’s hard to fathom that his band have been around for twenty years now. I first remember hearing about them back in 1992, when they were then associated with the British arm of the Riot Grrrl movement, and openly took on Morrissey for the sentiment of tracks like “Bengali In Platforms”. It thrilled me that a bunch of young Asian men would adopt as their name the most hackneyed stereotype of Asian people then going. While their Riot Grrrl contemporaries faded away, Cornershop have stayed the course, finding commercial success later in the decade and critical acclaim with their dance side-project Clinton - even though they have been lumped i with various scenes over the years they have risen above it all. I have recently begun to compile a top ten list of great British guitar bands from the 1990s that excludes Britpop acts - Cornershop are definitely on that list.

Cornershop and The Double ‘O’ Sound Of is available to buy from Amazon. More info on Cornershop at their official website.

 
The holy trinity of French coolness: Serge Gainsbourg, Gerard Depardieu and Johnny Hallyday performing Gainsbourg’s “Harley Davidson” on French TV in the early 1980s.

Don’t tell anyone, but Serge is sitting on a BMW.