Music Archives: 06/2017

It’s a curious fact that the first two VHS products the Cure put out were both Japan-only releases, and both are rather difficult to find…

For the last few years, venerable no-wave provocateur Lydia Lunch has been collaborating with guitarist Cypress Grove, releasing in 2014 a split album with Spiritual…

I first discovered the Warlock Pinchers while working at a record store in East LA. Buried among the piles of LPs that circulated through the…

Zappa at the door to Studio Z in Cucamonga Briefly, during 1963 and 1964, Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa were in a proto-Magic Band called…

Edward Woodward and Adam Ant on the cover of Ant News Today, 1985 The Equalizer was a crime drama starring Edward Woodward (The Wicker Man‘s…

In 1977, after launching his career a year earlier, Shaun Cassidy struck pop music gold with his fluffy cover of the girl group classic, “Da…

John Cage performs with a feather while George Plimpton narrativizes (inset) George Orwell’s sinister novel Nineteen Eighty-Four made it inevitable that the arrival of his…

The first thing you see when you watch W.T. Morgan’s 1986 documentary The Unheard Music about the difficult-to-Google Los Angeles punk band X is a…

One hears a lot of contrary opinions, spending year after year in the orbit of musicians, record collectors, and resentful nerds. That the Beatles “sucked”…

Don’t look now, but it seems that Wayne Kramer, of the legendary MC5, has suddenly discovered his YouTube account and decided to use it to…