There Is No Authority But Yourself: Rediscovering CRASS
Whereas I was not exactly a Crass punk myself, I was definitely sort of Crass punk adjacent. The image conjured up of a Crass punk…
Music Archives: 07/2019
What Frank Zappa recorded during his first studio session, 1961
A few months back, we told you about Frank Zappa’s earliest known recording, “Lost in a Whirlpool.” That song, captured circa 1958/59, was put to…
The genius of Barry Adamson: Exclusive interview and DM premiere of ‘Sounds From The Big House’ Live
Barry Adamson is a musician, composer, writer, photographer and filmmaker. With those credentials, many people (journalists, critics, what-have-you) often describe Adamson as a “polymath.” Fair…
A heckler stirs up R.E.M. during fabled 1985 gig (and the band nearly fights the heckler!)
Earlier this year, we told you about legendary R.E.M. performances captured before they were famous. Those shows, now considered amongst the best the band ever…
The gorgeously disaffected arty glam rock of David Sylvian and Japan
Glam rock’s history is clustered into two distinct eras: its initial early 70s glitter-pop boom (T.Rex, Sweet, Slade, Suzi, Bowie, New York Dolls) and its…
The Deviants were the people who perverted your children and led them astray
“This is British amphetamine psychosis music and if you don’t like it you can fuck off and listen to your Iron Butterfly albums”–Mick Farren onstage…
The west coast’s answer to the New York Dolls: The Hollywood Stars (with a DM premiere)
The ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll band the Hollywood Stars were managed by Kim Fowley, and their songs were recorded by the likes of KISS and…
‘Apollo’: Brian Eno’s ‘zero-gravity country music’ gets the deluxe treatment
Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks, the seminal collaboration between Brian Eno, his brother Roger Eno, and Daniel Lanois was recorded as the score for what ultimately…
Epic Martin Rev interview about his early life and the making of Suicide’s first album
In 1922, T. S. Eliot’s poem The Wasteland was published in the Criterion magazine. It was read by no more than a handful of people.…
Star-crossed Lovers: Intimate photographs of Marc Bolan and Gloria Jones
Marc Bolan said that from an early age he felt he was different from everyone else (don’t we all, dearie…). He believed, like say Churchill,…