I Will Survivor
Another brilliant mashup by the dynamite team of thriftshopxl and lobsterdust. Gloria Gaynor meets Survivor.
What makes this mashup particularly cool is the seamlessness of the music and the theme. This one works on all levels. And like all great mashups, it’s got a sense of humor.
Of course it’s midi-controlled and yes it’s monophonic, but it still sounds pretty nice to me. Well done I say !
Thanks Michael Perry Goodman !
Photo source: redteam
I took some home movie footage shot in San Francisco in 1968 and added some music to it. The result: punk rock hippie shit!
Barry Adamson is one very hep cat who has been a significant player in two pivotal bands of the 80s, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and Magazine, and, as a solo artist, he’s produced an impressive body of work. Over the course of nine albums, Adamson has created jazzy, edgy, erotic mood pieces that are evocative of the shadow world of film noir. It’s no wonder that David Lynch hired him to do soundtrack work on Lost Highway. Adamson’s dark grooves are the things that fever dreams are made of. His music and visual sense are switchblade sharp and sexy as hell.
In these clips, two of which, The Man With The Golden Arm and Moss Side Story, are quite rare, we are invited into the seductive web of the Jazz Devil, a place where a kiss can be deadly and love is just another word for ‘fuck you.’
As the Jazz Devil
Full and greedy
I’m the Jazz Devil
Libido needy
I’m the Jazz Devil
Flymeat in the mix
Where you can call me Agent Double O 666
more grooviness after the jump…
Musician Derek Beres filmed this New York moment of his buddy Duke doing an impromptu jam with a Punjabi shopkeeper on 1st and Ave. A.
The saag is spiced perfectly, the gulab jamun not too sweet, and vocals ring out non-stop through the night.
In this news clip from the Dallas ABC news affiliate we see the borderline hysterical coverage of The Sex Pistols gig at cowboy dancehall The Longhorn.
I love the marquee with ‘The Sex Pistols’ hovering over Merle Haggard’s name. That would have been one hell of a double bill.
It’s amusing to hear people complain that they had to pay $3.50 to see what was in effect a historic piece of music history. The date was January 10, 1978.
Texas punk band The Nervebreakers opened for The Pistols that night and recently re-united to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their once-in-a-lifetime gig. I’ve included some video footage of them playing in Dallas last year.
See footage of the Pistols Longhorn show and a recent Dallas performance by The Nervebreakers after the jump…
Here’ a followup to a piece I wrote for Dangerous Minds a few weeks ago.
Leonard Cohen sings Suzanne from Tony Palmer’s lost and recently found documentary of Leonard’s 1972 European tour Bird On A Wire which will be released on DVD August 21.
This clip includes an excerpt of Cohen performing Suzanne and some additional footage from the documentary. It looks good.
‘Bird On A Wire’: long lost Leonard Cohen documentary to be released
Beatnik double bill, Village Sunday and an excerpt from Jazz Is My Religion. Both short films feature beat poet Ted Joans, a fine wordslinger who never got the recognition he deserved.
Village Sunday is narrated by Jean Shepherd, a New York radio personality who was known for his offbeat humor and Zen-like observations about life.
Jazz Is My Religion after the jump…
Wanderland.
This beautifully animated slice of psychedelia gets progressively weirder and weirder right up to its sardonic Twilight Zone-meets-Hitchcock twist ending.
Music by Hermanos Ingleosos featuring MeMe.
Directed by Kristof Luyckx & Michèle Vanparys.
