Music Archives: 04/2014

Vangelis and Dalí hanging out Aphrodite’s Child was Greece’s most prominent contribution to the prog-rock scene in the late ’60s and early ’70s. They released…

I have to admit that Sparks are my most favorite band in the whole wide world. But you don’t really need to know that. All…

This is a guest post written by Tabitha Vidaurri. There exist a series of music videos of a life-sized, hand-made marionette of George Harrison. He…

On Sunday newsreel archivist British Pathé uploaded 85,000 films, in high resolution, to its YouTube channel. An incredible, if sometimes a bit stodgy, resource that…

In 1987, Neil Young told an interviewer that Time Fades Away was “the worst record I ever made–but as a documentary of what was happening…

In August 1993, Kurt Cobain wrote William Burroughs to ask if he would appear alongside his band Nirvana in the first video release from their…

Canadian director Kara Blake‘s award-winning short documentary The Delian Mode is an audio-visual love letter to pioneering electronic composer Delia Derbyshire, best known for her…

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Jones Street, West Village, New York City This idea may have been done before this, but I can’t remember seeing it…

Mottt the Hoople’s Ian Hunter wrote one of the best ever books written about life on the road. It was called Diary of a Rock…

As we near the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death–the Nirvana leader killed himself on April 5, 1994–this morning the Seattle Police Department released two…