Music Archives: 11/2018

David Lee Roth’s preferred method of warming up his larynx in the recording studio or the dressing room is singing along with the O’Jays’ hit…

Back in February, we told you about the fantastic post-punk/no wave record by Chandra. The band was named after its singer, Chandra Oppenheim, who, at…

In his 2012 memoir, Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook tells the tale of how he and Joy Division drummer Steve Morris were questioned…

Via Bonhams A legendary recording console will be auctioned off by Bonham’s next month. The Helios mixing desk, originally installed in Island Records’ studio on…

Though none of its constituent tropes were entirely without precedent, Goth was and is a singularly unique expression of post-punk art rock, and as a…

Linda McCartney’s image of the Jimi Hendrix Experience with some kids in Central Park was Jimi’s prefered image for the cover of ‘Electric Ladyland’ Although…

Not to be mistaken for Dread Zeppelin, our own Ron Kretsch described Jäh Division–Brad Truax and Barry London’s Joy Division-covering improv collective–as “the gimmick band…

Bands that too closely ape another group’s style are often criticized, which is absolutely justifiable. But that doesn’t mean a band can’t produce a really…

‘Violent white apes in a restaurant with red necks had an uprising…‘ (‘Snow Apes’ by Don Van Vliet, via Doyle) You could spend your whole…

All My Kin is the first–and probably only–release by the mysterious outsider music group known as Beanpole. Not exactly a concept album, but very much…