Music Archives: 11/2016

German ‘punk’ band Strassenjungs circa 1980. In 1977 two German producers decided to try to follow Malcolm McLaren’s success with the Sex Pistols by creating…

In 1984 Kurt Cobain was 17 years old and bursting with creative adolescent energy. He was already friends with Krist Novoselic and Dale Crover, who…

The opening music to Kate Bush’s career is in the key of C. One day, sometime in 1970, Kate’s father–a doctor by profession–showed his daughter…

Toronto-based musician Coins has an admirably succinct self-description on his Bandcamp page: “Coins makes dance music.” For my part I’m not one to dance much,…

You can buy a signed replica of this jacket on Kenneth Anger’s website After Kenneth Anger fired Jimmy Page from his long-delayed Lucifer Rising film…

Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke looking a bit confused about how the band ended up on German music television program ‘Musik Convoy.’ As a frequent…

I don’t expect that many people think of Phoenix, AZ, as a nerve center of punk rock. My go-to Phoenix bands have long been the…

Photo: Damien de Blinkk Let’s imagine, for the sake of argument, that there’s been a recent national (or even international) event so seismically disturbing that…

Excluding Blondie’s 1981 foray into the genre with “Rapture,” when it comes to listing “white rappers of the ’80s,” most people would start and end…

Soon after David Bowie’s brief “retirement” he was already busy preparing for his first big public appearance since (apparently) leaving showbiz. The 1980 Floor Show,…