Enraged Krautrock manager destroys table with a hatchet on live TV, 1971
You don’t need to know German to appreciate this clip. It happened on the WDR program “Ende Offen” on December 3, 1971, during a discussion…
Music Archives: 04/2016
Blues legend Victoria Spivey’s got the ‘Dope Head Blues’
The great American blues singer and pianist Victoria Spivey’s long and influential career began as part of her family’s string band which was led by…
Meet The Liverbirds: The all-girl Beatles who once toured with the Kinks and Rolling Stones
“Girls with guitars? That won’t work,” quipped John Lennon as he watched four girls take the stage of the Cavern Club, Liverpool in 1963. The…
‘Tommy’ wasn’t the first rock opera: The Pretty Things’ lost psychedelic masterpiece ‘S.F. Sorrow’
The Pretty Things started as blues-rock band in the early 1960s, and they’re often described as being “meaner, louder, uglier and with longer hair” than…
‘Shame’: Just what you needed, a Christian ‘parody’ of David Bowie’s ‘Fame’
The YouTube account with the handle TheParodyQueen is dedicated to Christian parodies of popular songs. As the Queen describes herself, she’s “a wacky blonde who…
‘Cannabis’: Take a big hit of Slim Twig’s Serge Gainsbourg cover for 420 Day
I’ve been fairly unabashed in my praise of Toronto-born rocker Slim Twig. Two of my very most favorite albums of the the past two years…
Meet ‘Soul Sister #1’: Marvellous Marva Whitney, the sexy, funky muse of James Brown
Although she’s somewhat of an obscure figure today, beautiful Marva Whitney was known as “Soul Sister #1” during her stint in the James Brown Revue…
‘The Mecca of Hip’: Essential doc on Detroit venue where the Stooges & MC5 made their marks
“Detroit made you good.” –Alice Cooper Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story is a must-see film for anyone who gives a shit about the…
Captain Beefheart meets David Lynch in ‘Some YoYo Stuff’
In the early 1990s Anton Corbijn made a peculiar short movie called “Some YoYo Stuff” featuring Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart. The movie is…
‘The biggest thing since World War III’: Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, and Iggy Pop talk ‘Rock and Rule’
The 1983 animated rock and roll movie Rock and Rule was a failure at the box office but found its audience on cable TV a…