Music Archives: 08/2014

The Watts Riots are often referred to by lefties as “The Watts Rebellion.” While both are technically accurate descriptions, “rebellion” is considered the preferable word…

Métal Urbain were Francophone contemporaries of the Sex Pistols and The Clash. Formed in 1976 by Clode Panik, Hermann Schwartz, Pat Luger and Eric Debris,…

“California Dreamin’” was literally written about a dream of California, and it was somewhat of a prophetic dream at that. At the time of its…

H.R. Giger’s cover for 1978’s Attahk album From the Dangerous Minds archives: French progrockers MAGMA sing their lyrics in “Kobaïan,” a made-up phonetic language based…

Dismissing claims by critics that the Beatles’ sole LP from 1968 would have worked better had the songs been curated into a tighter, single-disc release,…

The Summer of Love 1967: John Lennon was tired of Britian, tired of living a life in public, tired of the relentless clamor of fans,…

I’m sure that many–if not most–of our good-looking, high IQ readers have seen quirky documentarian Jeff Krulik’s underground classic “Heavy Metal Parking Lot,” a short…

Before the advent of recording media, a piece of music could be quite long without its duration meriting much notice, but when the mechanical limitations…

I wish I could give you any kind of deep background on how this came to be. A friend shared it on Facebook yesterday, and…

Although Charles Manson didn’t actually write “Never Learn Not To Love” for the Beach Boys, he did in fact, write a number titled “Cease to…