Music Archives: 09/2014

Never-before-seen–until now, naturally–Stevie Nicks self-portraits from the mid-1970s. There are a lot wickedly cool Nicks selfies in this collection –all of which were shot with…

Here’s Kermit the Frog covering “Once in a Lifetime,” wearing the David Byrne oversized suit from Stop Making Sense and faithfully reproducing Byrne’s spastic movements…

It’s cellist/composer Arthur Russell’s great triumph that his influence became so massively widespread, and his great tragedy that he never knew it. His AIDS-related death…

In 1981, the BBC banned Heaven 17’s debut sinlge “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang” on the grounds the song’s lyrics were possibly libelous…

In 2009 when LA band Jogger thought it was time to make a video for their song “Nephicide,” they decided it should follow the bleak…

AC/DC made their first TV appearance with Bon Scott (who replaced originally vocalist Dave Evans) on an Australian charts program called Countdown. The group decided…

In about a week residents of Chicagoland will be able to wallow in all things Bowie, as the much-acclaimed “David Bowie Is” exhibition makes its…

When you listen to Scott Walker, do you think “beach party”? No? Well, long before “The Electrician,” before “The Plague,” even before “The Sun Ain’t…

The Clash busking in York, 1985 In its official version, the story of The Clash ends with the firing of lead guitarist Mick Jones in…

Betty Davis cares not for your notions of respectability It really is an injustice that Betty Davis (born Betty Mabry) is perceived primarily as Miles…