Can go all disco-krautrock at the BBC, 1976
Seemingly searching for a new musical identity, Can–Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, Holger Czukay–performed their jaunty, jittery disco-fied “I Want More”—their only hit single…
Music Archives: 06/2016
‘I Don’t Wanna Grow Up’: Comix god Daniel Clowes’ cartoony video for the Ramones’ Tom Waits cover
On a recent episode of WTF, Marc Maron had an expansive chat with the renowned comix artist Daniel Clowes, the mind responsible for Eightball, Ghost…
DJ Johnny Rotten plays music from his own record collection on the radio, 1977
“All the music that you will hear has been chosen by Johnny Rotten and is from his personal collection.” Thus begins a singular trip down…
Vintage ‘underground’ drawings of Lou Reed, Keith Richards, Bowie & more by Peter Pontiac
Peter Pontiac’s illustration from Muziek Expres of Lou Reed. The small caption on the bottom right reads ‘Junkies Ain’t funky!’ Muziek Expres was an edgy…
The Cramps now have a fake star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
via Vinyl Maniac When this appeared in my Facebook feed, it took me a moment to realize it was a fake. It went down like…
Riot on Times Square: The Clash on Broadway!
From the Dangerous Minds archives: In May/June of 1981, The Clash were booked to play at the curiously named “Bond International Casino”–a discotheque that was…
‘Zarathustra,’ the avant-folk soundtrack to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1970 Nietzsche adaptation
In 1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky brought his adaptation of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra to the stage in Mexico City. A creation for its time and place,…
‘A Lover Spurned’: Famed French photographers direct colorful, campy Marc Almond video
Famed French photographers Pierre et Gilles (Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard) directed this amazing—and seldom seen—promo video for Marc Almond’s “A Lover Spurned” in 1990.…
‘This Time’: John Cougar Mellencamp is really in love with John Waters actress Edith Massey
Long before he gained fame, Indiana-born and raised roots rocker John Mellencamp was already married and a father, just two weeks after graduating from high…
Lemmy Kilmister gets ambushed by three of his ex’s on TV in the late 90s
Lemmy being Lemmy back in the day with a few of his close, personal friends. In this brief clip from an interview Lemmy did in…