Music Archives: 08/2015

Although today he’s perhaps better known for being a fast food kingpin than a musician, country hit-maker Kenny Rogers was once actually a rock and…

Bob Dylan “Baby Stop Crying” die cut 7″ record Artist Daniel Tolhurst has found yet another creative way to make art out of vinyl –…

The title suggests a contest like Star Search, but the UK’s Channel 4 series Star Test was an interview show with a gimmick: a bleeping…

I have extolled on DM before the virtues of remix/mashup genius Mark “Go Home Productions” Vidler. For over a decade, he’s been, to my reckoning,…

Iara Lee’s ambitious 1998 documentary Modulations: Cinema for the Ear tries to fit the entire history of electronic music into 73 minutes. It’s a good…

Catherine Wheel circa 1992 Here’s a pretty rare glimpse at an intimate performance from 1998 by the Catherine Wheel on TMC2 or Telemontecarlo, a now…

Lemmy Kilmister of the legendary heavy metal band Motörhead recently announced that he’s abandoned his beloved whisky in favor of vodka. He’s been suffering lately…

Bon Scott and Vince Lovegrove, co-vocalists of the Valentines The term “bubblegum music” came to be sometime back in the early 1960s with help from…

If you’re one of those people who wouldn’t be caught dead listening to new age music, I may have some bad news for you. It…

The lovely Miss Cynthia Plaster Caster The 1970 documentary Groupies does not portray the lives of its subjects as particularly appealing. There are some famous…