Music Archives: 01/2018

Sire’s “Plundering the Vaults” reissue series got to the Rezillos in 1993, as if in karmic compensation for my first year of high school math…

As someone who has spent much of my life seeking out and befriending eccentric people, I’m always delighted to meet a new one. In One…

via oicVintage CRIME fans rejoice! San Francisco’s first and only rock and roll band starred in a never-released movie filmed during June of 1978, and…

The little-known heavy metal outfit White Boy and the Average Rat Band hailed from a coal mining town in southwest Virginia. Though the guys were…

In 1994 the well-known artistic impresario André Heller invited his chums David Bowie and Brian Eno to his native Austria in order to spend a…

Country music is my favorite genre to listen to if I want to hear really dark shit. My favorite tunes should probably come with warning…

There have been plenty of songs written about cops, but what about those written by cops? Meet Blue Thunder, the crime fighting rock and roll…

Olivier Mosset, ‘Untitled,’ 1968 (via Contemporary Art Daily) Fun and Games for Everyone is the second of three films the French director Serge Bard made…

The Road to God Knows Where is a 1990 documentary directed by German filmmaker Uli M. Schüppel. The subject of the movie is Nick Cave…

Steve Wozniak may have co-founded Apple, but it was his notorious “US Festival” that makes him one of the greatest rock promoters of our time.…