Marc and the Mambas: Marc Almond’s Soft Cell side project
It’s always hard to pick your “top ten” albums when pressed, but two things that always come immediately to mind for me are Nick Cave’s…
Music Archives: 02/2012
‘Dream Deceivers’: Satan, suicide and Judas Priest
Don Von Taylor’s powerful 1992 documentary Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest explores the infamous case of two teenage heavy metal…
Happy Mondays: 24 Hour Party People
“You know you talk so hip man! You’re twistin’ my melon man!” Although, of course, they are still well-loved and known as one of the…
Neil Young singing on the streets of Glasgow in 1976
Neil Young sitting on a sidewalk in Glasgow back in 1976 singing the “Old Laughing Lady” and playing his banjo as people file past him…
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads: New ‘Chronology’ DVD burns down the house
The recently released Talking Heads: Chronology DVD is must-see TV for fans of the legendarily Caucasian 70s art school quartet who mutated into a futuristic Afrofunk-orchestra…
‘Elvis On Tour’: Montage sequences directed by Martin Scorsese
On the heels of Madonna’s half-time spektakular and the new M.I.A. video (torrents of Arabia), may I present the The King of Rock and Roll…