Bleak Sabbath: Did the mysterious occult group Jacula invent black metal in 1969?
Fumetti plus wizards = total doom It’s either the most mind-blowing musical anomaly ever unearthed or it’s bullshit. Me, I prefer to believe. You will…
Music Archives: 02/2017
‘They Walk Among Us’: Barry Adamson’s unsettling 21st century vampire blues, a DM premiere
“The blues is the blues and if the heart aches then that’s the sound that will come out whether you are playing guitar, a synth,…
‘Storytelling Giant,’ offbeat Talking Heads video compilation from the 1980s
When MTV ran the world in the 1980s and a few years after, it was de rigueur for bands to release VHS video compilations. The…
That time Lemmy recorded a single with the (not so) ‘squeaky clean’ Nolan Sisters
The Young & Moody Band were an R&B group formed around the talents of Bob Young and Micky Moody. Young was a musician and regular…
GG Allin is (still) dead, so all we have left is noise rockers Cock ESP
What if I told you there was a 90s band still in operation who have one hundred albums out? I mean, none of them are…
‘It’s A Complex World’: Long-lost rock n’ roll comedy with Captain Lou Albano, NRBQ & mad bombers
In 1978, Rhode Island filmmaker Jim Wolpaw directed the fantastically rough n’ ready short-form documentaryCobra Snake For a Necktie: Bo Diddley and the Young Adults.…
That time the ‘world’s dumbest’ terrorist blew up the Rolling Stones’ equipment
Despite what recent political rhetoric would have you believe, terrorism is hardly the sole property of Muslims from the Middle East. Timothy McVeigh and his…
Southern Gothic: The musical genius of Bobbie Gentry needs to be rediscovered
One of the first major country “crossover” artists, Bobbie Gentry became an overnight sensation with her massive 1967 hit single, the hauntingly enigmatic “Ode to…
The Melvins mind-melting first ever television appearance from 1995
An early shot of Washington State fuzz kings, Melvins. Sound FX was a short-lived show on the FX Network back in the mid-90s. Its greatest…
Real combat rock: Red Rippers brought the Vietnam war home
The Vietnam era (roughly 1964 to 1975) is commonly considered the best years rock music ever had. It began with the Beatles and The Stones…