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Walking with the Beast: The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee Pierce is ‘Preaching the Blues’
Jeffrey Lee Pierce, the long deceased leader of the Gun Club, has been variously described as brilliant, tortured, visionary, even lovable, but mostly he seems…
‘(This is Known as) The Blues Scale’: Outtakes from the Sonic Youth / Nirvana ’91 European Tour
While the approximate year of when punk rock actually “broke” into the mainstream differs from who you talk to or the weight of cultural references,…
‘The Devil keeps telling me lies’: Adia Victoria sings the Blues
“Bring her back / Drag her by her hair / Bring her back / The devil don’t care.” I pat myself on the back because…
Cock rock: Dig the groovy, sleazy sounds of The Plaster Caster Blues Band
I’m sure that many readers of this blog are familiar with the legendary Plaster Casters, the Chicago groupies who made Plaster of Paris molds of…
Alice Cooper was in a long forgotten rock opera with members of The Who, Roxy Music & Moody Blues
Around 1974, Alice Cooper fully morphed from a group’s name to that of a solo artist. While Cooper’s fellow bandmates moved on to various solo…
Running Gun Blues: Arms dealer uses David Bowie’s image to sell bullets?
The Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) conference took place last week in the Docklands in eastern London, and the event featured a creepy, unauthorized…
Chris Farlowe on the birth of British blues, plus exclusive audio of Jimmy Page’s first production
The cover of ‘The Beginning,’ courtesy of JimmyPage.com One of the limbs of Osiris could turn up in your mailbox soon. On April 30, Jimmy…
‘They Walk Among Us’: Barry Adamson’s unsettling 21st century vampire blues, a DM premiere
“The blues is the blues and if the heart aches then that’s the sound that will come out whether you are playing guitar, a synth,…