Elvis Presley jams with Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Marvin Gaye and more
Ingenious commercial for BBC Radio 2 is pretty damn convincing down to Elvis’s bemused smile when Keith Moon misses his cue. The commercial is composed…
Music Archives: 03/2013
The history of The Pretenders in 19 videos
When The Pretenders appeared on the scene in 1978, Chrissie Hynde was as fully-formed a rock star as any of the great front men that…
Diana Ross & The Supremes guest star as nuns on ‘Tarzan’ (1968)
The Supremes (Cindy Birdsong, left, Diana Ross and Mary Wilson) were guest stars on NBC’s Tarzan TV series starring Ron Ely in 1968. The episode…
When Devo met Disney: Kids singing about sexual frustration, what could possibly go wrong?
Are we not kids? We are Devo 2.0! Unless you’ve got kids, are a really big Devo fan, or some pervy Nickolodeon-watching weirdo, Devo 2.0…
Yoko Ono’s plea for gun control expressed in one image: John Lennon’s blood-splattered glasses
On the 44th anniversary (March 20) of her marriage to John Lennon, Yoko Ono tweeted this powerful photo of her late husband’s blood-splattered glasses, the…
‘Blue Monday’ is 30 years old today: So let’s listen to Liverpool’s Double Echo instead
Image from Double Echo’s Phantomime release Even though the hugely influential single was released 30 years ago today, and as much as I love it,…
Mindblowing psychedelia from Thailand
Phin player. Thai musical congregation Khun Narin Phin Sing, from the Phetchabun Province, conjures up some mystical vibes in their indescribably beautiful psychedelia. Google translates…
‘Indie, Punk, Motown, Brill Building and Velvets’: Meet the street karaoke maestro of Los Angeles
A guest post by Jeff Feuerzeig, director of the very marvelous documentary films The Devil and Daniel Johnston and Half Japanese: The Band That Would…
Lipstick Killers: The New York Dolls, live, Halloween 1973
The New York Dolls playing at the Waldorf-Astoria’s Grand Ballroom for Howard Stein’s Halloween bash on October 31, 1973. Oh my God, the Waldorf-Astoria regret…