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Music Archives: 07/2015

The Rolling Stones at their worst is still better than most bands at their best (but not always)

A still from Kenneth Anger’s “Invocation of My Demon Brother“ When reviewing the newest Blu-ray release from the Rolling Stone’s “From the Vault” concert series,…

Richard Metzger
Jul 30, 2015

‘Robot Monster,’ Lux Interior’s favorite B movie, a bad movie for bad people

“At what point on the graph do ‘must’ and ‘cannot’ meet?” KDOC, the Orange County station that broadcast Wally George’s The Hot Seat, was also…

Oliver Hall
Jul 30, 2015

Hear the Dead Kennedys as a five-piece with KEYBOARDS, play a Rolling Stones cover

I recently finished reading Michael Stewart Foley’s excellent 33 1/3 series book on the Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables album. Rather than merely…

Christopher Bickel
Jul 30, 2015

The Pogues are launching their own brand of Irish whiskey because of course they are

Since the 1980s, the Pogues have been fusing the tropes and melodies of traditional Irish folk music to the energy of punk rock while posing…

Ron Kretsch
Jul 27, 2015

Curiously-shaped die cut records from Grace Jones, The Cramps, Bowie and more

Cherrybomb
Jul 23, 2015

Finally, a robot to replace the Whitney Houston-sized hole in our hearts

Multi-talented musician, designer, and hacker Martin Backes from Germany has designed a robot to croon a pop ballad like a superstar from the ’90s. As…

Martin Schneider
Jul 22, 2015

This short 1976 Rolling Stones documentary captures the band at their most ‘Spinal Tap’

“What’s wrong with being sexy?” In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger admitted that Their Satanic Majesties Request wasn’t a particularly good album.…

Amber Frost
Jul 22, 2015

‘Soaked in Bleach’: New documentary examines the theory that Kurt Cobain was murdered

Nirvana fans worldwide were devastated, when on April 8th, 1994, Kurt Cobain was found dead. Adding to the distress, it was revealed he took his…

Bart Bealmear
Jul 22, 2015

Jello Biafra and ‘uptight prude’ Tipper Gore fight it out in the pages of CREEM, 1986

In the 1980s, the elected-to-nothing wife of then-Senator Albert Gore Jr. made quite a splash for herself when she formed the Parents Music Resource Center…

Martin Schneider
Jul 21, 2015

‘Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening tells the story of The Residents, 1979

The Residents, 1972 The Residents’ first fan club, W.E.I.R.D. (We Endorse Immediate Residents Deification), was founded in 1978, and one of its charter members was…

Oliver Hall
Jul 15, 2015

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