A merry Iggy Pop talks drugs, blood, and Bowie in obscure 1980s TV profile
The other day I came across an entertaining Iggy TV segment from the ‘80s that I had never seen before. The clip had recently been…
Music Archives: 07/2018
What if every band had its own British football logo?
Some witty and likable folks with art school credentials and/or graphic design skills presumably residing in the British Isles recently started a Twitter presence for…
Apocalypso: Watch Stiv Bators & the Lords of the New Church implode during their infamous final gig
Although they never really seemed to quite enter the posthumous pantheon of great late and lamented post-punk bands like, say, the Gun Club, and are…
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads perform live showcase at Entermedia Theater, 1978
Forty-years-ago, like a gazillion other kids, I was smitten by the sounds of New Wave. The needle had worn out on punk and there was…
The *other* Velvet Underground featured a future AC/DC founder and a singer who set himself on fire
Did you know there was another 1960s group called the Velvet Underground? The American Velvet Underground are now pretty much a household name, but for…
Yo! Brian Wilson raps
A bootleg CD of ‘Sweet Insanity’ (via Discogs) Circa 1991, the house of hip hop welcomed an honored guest. Accompanied by his longtime shrink, Dr.…
John Cale’s short Fluxus film, ‘Police Car’
Last week’s screening of The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound and The Velvet Underground Tarot Cards at the Egyptian Theatre was my…
Amazing never before seen footage of jazz’s dark chanteuse Patty Waters performing solo in 1974
If one tried to concoct a mystique around a mercurial artist, one could not dream of doing better on purpose than Patty Waters did just…
Life is Unfair: Black Box Recorder want you to kill yourself or get over it
In their 1973 occult cookbook The Third Mind, novelist William S. Burroughs and painter Brion Gysin discuss the notion that when two like-minded individuals are…
The Gun Club, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Joe Strummer on ‘Art Fein’s Poker Party’
Art Fein, Bull Moose Jackson and Paul Body, 1985 (via Another Fein Mess) You know what they say: “Ain’t no YouTube rabbit hole like an…