Renato Zero, the gender-bending Italian superstar that you’ve probably never heard of
Despite the fact that he is said to have sold 40 million records and his albums sit atop the Italian pop charts for half a…
Music Archives: 05/2019
The Pixies cover the theme song from an ultra-violent video game, 1991
In addition to their fabulous full-length records, the Pixies issued a number of great B-sides during their original late ‘80s/early ‘90s run. One of their…
Back to the Future: Bryan Ferry live in concert, Japan 1977
In 1983, Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ frontman Kevin Rowland managed to get his band booted off their prestigious support gig on David Bowie’s Serious Moonlight tour.…
The transcendent psychedelic country rock of one-album-and-out ‘70s band, Space Opera
I recently heard the song “Holy River” by ‘70s group Space Opera and was blown away. Space Opera are a little-known act. Widely believed to…
Ingrid Chavez: Prince protégé returns with sexy, sensual ‘Memories of Flying’ album
When I can no longer remember my dreams upon waking, I will make my waking more dreamlike. —Ingrid Chavez A few years ago I was…
‘Sad About the Times’: That song is on this album, even if it’s not on this album
I was positively head over heels in love with Follow the Sun, Mexican Summer/Anthology Recordings’ stunning 2017 compilation of 70s Aussie FM radio folk rock.…
Matt Gimmick’s rare 1979 EP, with covers of unreleased Stooges songs, returns (a DM premiere)
Last year, we told you about Matt Gimmick, the Detroit punk band that released a killer EP in 1979. The 7-inch is especially notable for…
‘The Canon’: Craig Leon gets Sirius with his ‘Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2’
If you were to play the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” parlor game with a musical figure, an interesting replacement for the well-connected actor might…
‘Lost in a Whirlpool’: The earliest known recording of both Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart
In the mid 1950s, after Frank Zappa moved from San Diego to Lancaster, California, he and Captain Beefheart (a/k/a Don Van Vliet; born Don Vliet)…