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Music Archives: 06/2018

‘A new paradigm for females’: The Slits smashed expectations and had fun doing it (a DM premiere)

Formed in 1976, the Slits were one of the earliest all-female punk bands—if not the first. The fantastic, feature-length documentary on the group, Here to…

Bart Bealmear
Jun 29, 2018

Ray Manzarek and Danny Sugerman identify ‘Johnny Yen’ from Iggy’s ‘Lust for Life’

In 1995, the Doors’ keyboardist, Ray Manzarek, and biographer, Danny Sugerman, appeared on the Australian music video program rage, smoking cigs on the couch and…

Oliver Hall
Jun 29, 2018

Brian Eno, Debbie Harry play movie soundtracks on ex-Strangler Hugh Cornwell’s internet radio show

The March 3, 1979 issue of ‘Record Mirror’ Last summer, I posted clips from MrDeMilleFM, the new internet radio venture of former Stranglers singer and…

Oliver Hall
Jun 28, 2018

‘Rock Wars’: The super-trippy 1979 sci-fi graphic novel about the quest to reunite the Beatles

The psychedelic sci-fi graphic novel Rock Wars concerns a group of twelve volunteers from Galaxcentra (the center of the galaxy), who have been sent to…

Bart Bealmear
Jun 28, 2018

Ian Dury portrays a sperm in a video game, 1984

I’ve never played the video game Deus Ex Machina, released in 1984 by Automata UK for the ZX Spectrum system–not only did I not own…

Martin Schneider
Jun 27, 2018

The Grateful Dead’s notorious soundcheck from Summer Jam at Watkins Glen

It’s been said that one out of every three people aged 17-24 from New York and Boston was at Watkins Glen on July 28, 1973.…

Bennett Kogon
Jun 22, 2018

‘Entrées de Secours’: Experimental 1982 short film with DEVO, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and more

Entrées de Secours (Google translation: “Emergency Inputs”) is the work of French filmmaker, Jérôme de Missolz. From the late ‘70s through the early ‘80s, he…

Bart Bealmear
Jun 21, 2018

‘Hey, Hey we’re the Grungies’: Pitch-perfect ‘Ben Stiller Show’ sketch skewers 1990s Seattle

As the son of Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller–both alums of Second City–Ben Stiller was an early inheritor of the improv tradition that today is…

Martin Schneider
Jun 20, 2018

For an unbelievable trove of indie/punk bootlegs from the 1980s, the McKenzie Tapes has you covered

Any music fan from the New York City area knows what an important part of the city’s music scene Maxwell’s was, until recently located in…

Martin Schneider
Jun 19, 2018

Todd Rundgren’s ‘A Wizard, A True Star’ is one of those albums that you MUST hear before you die!

When I was really young and first getting into music, Todd Rundgren was one of the first artists who I discovered. His AM staple “Hello…

Richard Metzger
Jun 15, 2018

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