Blues

George Franju’s 1949 film Le Sang Des Bêtes (“Blood of the beasts”) is one of the most beautiful and horrifying movies ever made. Filmed in…

In the course of decades of obsessive crate-digging, I’ve turned up plenty of oddities. Most of them stay in the bins, but there will always…

In spring of 1989, The Residents brought their “History of American Music in 3 EZ pieces” tour to Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New…

An unused fake mug shot of John Belushi taken during the filming of ‘The Blues Brothers.’ I must admit a bit of bias when it…

“I don’t know nothin’ about Southern belles/ But I can tell you something about Southern hell…” Last month I idly read an article about a…

The great American blues singer and pianist Victoria Spivey’s long and influential career began as part of her family’s string band which was led by…

This Is The Moody Blues is one of those almost mythical greatest hits albums from the 60s or 70s where every single cut was killer,…

It’s extremely tempting to compare Songhoy Blues with Tinariwen. Both bands hail from Mali, and offer a GRIPPING Saharan blues that takes significant inspiration from…

Here’s a truly strange tale about Cleveland guitar madman turned Jesus freak madman, Glenn Schwartz. Schwartz, a blues guitar virtuoso of whom Jimi Hendrix was…

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…