‘It’s All True’: Experimental opera based on Fugazi’s live tapes?
Photo of Object Collective by Henrik Beck Object Collection, an experimental performance outfit from Brooklyn, has recorded an “opera-in-suspension” based on the Fugazi Live Series.…
Music Archives: 07/2017
‘Whatever Happened to PJ Proby?’: The hellraising madman of rock & roll is a god amongst men
“My idea of fun is what puts most people in jail.” –PJ Proby The entire point underlying this blog is to impart enthusiasm for the…
David Lynch recites Captain Beefheart’s ‘Pena’
Don Van Vliet, ‘Crepe and Black Lamps’ (via beefheart.com) Among the treasures stored on Magic Band alumnus Gary Lucas’ Soundcloud is this recording of David…
Attention crate diggers: Next time you see a record called ‘Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog,’ BUY IT!
One-hit-wonder Norma Tanega is known only for “Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog,” her soulful, folky quasi-novelty song of 1966 that reached #22 in the pop…
Sex, Drugs & Clowns: A masked rock band and the Soup Nazi star in sleazy slasher, ‘Terror on Tour’
Terror on Tour (1980) is a really bad slasher flick about a series of murders that take place during events that revolve around the Clowns,…
A preposterous Paul McCartney parody by Melvins drummer Dale Crover
In 1980, Paul McCartney released his first solo album since 1970’s eponymous McCartney. Cleverly titled McCartney II, it’s a so-so album at best, as a…
‘Who ate my pie?’ David Byrne plays boorish, mustachioed, pie-loving drunk on PBS sitcom
The first episode of the PBS anthology series Trying Times (originally called Survival Guide) was directed by Jonathan Demme. “A Family Tree” stars Rosanna Arquette…
Here’s your new ringtone: Lou Reed hilariously reads X-rated porn advertising copy (NSFW)
In 2004 Timothy Greenfield-Sanders released his photography book XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits, which showed various porn stars in two states, wearing clothes and not wearing…
Jack Black perfectly (and hilariously) lip syncs Fugazi, Talking Heads, PJ Harvey + many more!
I don’t follow Jack Black on Instagram, but that’s going to change today. bOING bOING’s Rusty Blazenhoff hipped me to his hilarious page where he…
Who was this amazing ‘Suzi Quatro meets the New York Dolls’ proto-punk mystery band?
Robin Wills is the guitarist for the English band, the Barracudas, who scored a UK hit with their pogo-inducing 1980 single, “Summer Fun.” In 2006,…