Listen to ‘Montage of Heck,’ Kurt Cobain’s mind-blowing music montage–made years before his fame
Nobody better represented the young, angry, art school punk better than Kurt Cobain–a glance at his Journals is enough to convince that his desire to…
Music Archives: 10/2014
Camper Van Beethoven covers Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tusk’ in its entirety, 1987 (well, actually 2001)
Few bands could generate a good mood as deftly as Camper Van Beethoven did–I keep wanting to call their low-key gems a “hoot.” An likeable…
Talking Heads: Max Headroom interviews Sting and David Byrne
Max Headroom, now there was a weird-ass experiment. In hindsight the digital character is the very definition of a “curio.” It takes only a few…
Hawkwind poet Robert Calvert’s prophetic sci-fi noir ‘The Kid From Silicon Gulch’
In 1981, the idea of something like the Internet and its physical conduit, the personal computer, becoming deeply intertwined with our work and lives, still…
JJ Burnel: Stranglers bassist, karate master
If you find yourself in this situation, RUN. Add this to the list of reasons to be very, very nice to Stranglers bassist and singer…
Krautrock for Athletes: What 70s East German Olympians just might have listened to while training
I have to admit, they had me going there for a while…. I thought it was real. I stumbled on the Bandcamp page for the…
Three DVD box set pays tribute to Lou Reed, Velvets, Iggy, Bowie and punk
Seemingly just as Lou Reed left this earth, I noticed this box set on Amazon called Lou Reed Tribute from Chrome Dreams, a UK company…
Remember that time David Bowie recorded that shitty song with Mickey Rourke?
In 1987 David Bowie recorded the album Never Let Me Down. What I didn’t know and perhaps you might and are still trying to forget…
FUG YOU! The Fugs invade Cleveland, 1967
On May 14, 1967, a benefit was held in Cleveland to assist two local figures on the local literary scene, bookseller James Lowell and poet…
‘duBEAT-e-o’: The Runaways movie that became The Mentors movie, 1984
Twelve years ago, when I was working in a video store that was selling off its VHS inventory, a coworker put a used copy of…