Music Archives: 05/2017

When I saw Danzig play the Ritz in 1989 (with White Zombie opening), it didn’t cross my mind that I’d be writing about Glenn Danzig’s…

“It was 50 years ago today, that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play…” Whenever I write a “review” of something that’s universally acknowledged to…

I tried to catch Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth at a local art gallery a few months back, but I blew it. You really gotta…

In the mid-1980s Honda had a series of quite dauntingly cool musicians hawking their scooters. They had particularly playful, sexy commercial in which Adam Ant…

The Australian band Buffalo was one of the earliest acts to show an obvious debt to heavy metal pioneers, Black Sabbath. Their Sabbath-inspired debut, Dead…

I recently fell down a rabbit-hole of “unusual musical instrument” videos while doing some research on aquaphones for some indie-horror soundtrack work I’m doing. While…

When the recent Redd Kross tour passed through my town, a friend asked me if I was going. I couldn’t go (to my regret—everyone who…

As 1977 began, Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry and model Jerry Hall were engaged. By the end of the year, they were finished, with Ferry…

Nirvana might have put a hammerlock on the word grunge for the coming aeons of posterity, but to my mind the question “What is the…

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets is a lesser-known project of William S. Burroughs (who wrote the opera’s book) and a somewhat…