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Music Archives: 08/2017

Ex-Strangler Hugh Cornwell has an internet radio show about film history and movie music

Hugh Cornwell, who was once the lead singer and guitarist in the Stranglers, has a new internet radio show devoted to movies and their music.…

Oliver Hall
Aug 31, 2017

Brian Wilson’s haunting rendition of ‘Surf’s Up’ is just one highlight of this amazing 1967 pop doc

On April 25, 1967, CBS ran a special documentary that had been put together by David Oppenheim called Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution. The program…

Martin Schneider
Aug 21, 2017

Here’s the Klaus Nomi karaoke you’ll be needing for your Eclipse Party

I was an eleven-year-old kid attending Catholic school in Kentucky and my parents had just gotten cable TV. It was 1982. I had gotten up…

Christopher Bickel
Aug 18, 2017

‘Dark Avenger’: The brief heavy metal career of Orson Welles

After the breakup of the Dictators, the New York proto-punk band Richard Meltzer credited with returning “THE SPIRIT OF WRESTLING” to rock and roll, their…

Oliver Hall
Aug 17, 2017

We have a new contender for best / worst screamingly funny BAD cover version of a classic rock song!

OK, so maybe it’s not quite as bad as this butchering of “Sweet Child of Mine” or this total annihilation of “Comfortably Numb,” but this…

Christopher Bickel
Aug 11, 2017

Elvis Presley’s adventures in yoga and Eastern mysticism

Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and Larry Geller on the set of ‘Spinout’ (via Bodhi Tree.com) In the spring of 1964, Elvis’ hairdresser, Larry Geller,…

Oliver Hall
Aug 11, 2017

Space-rock legend Fumio Miyashita does something amazing on Los Angeles cable access, 1979

Fumio Miyashita was the leader of one of Japan’s most far out space rock units, The Far East Family Band, which also included the future…

Richard Metzger
Aug 9, 2017

Breaking news: EVERYONE can own Glenn Danzig’s house

Well, since everyone is talking about wishing they could buy Glenn Danzig’s now iconic house since yesterday’s popular Dangerous Minds post–good news! We all can!…

Howie Pyro
Aug 4, 2017

Glenn Danzig’s home is for sale

Glenn Danzig’s Los Feliz home is for sale. The listing price is $1,199,000. Sadly, there’s only one photo of the home’s the exterior. I’d love…

Tara McGinley
Aug 3, 2017
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