24 Hour Partying People: Happy Monday, it’s the Happy Mondays!
“You know you talk so hip man! You’re twistin’ my melon man!” Although, of course, they are still well-loved and known as one of the…
Music Archives: 05/2017
High-quality footage of the Cure playing New York City on their first U.S. tour, 1980
The Cure were arresting enough as a band to land its first album Three Imaginary Boys on the U.K. charts in 1979. A year later,…
Hear a full confession from Tricky Dick on the novelty single ‘The Altered Nixon Speech,’ 1973
(via Syntonic Research Irv Teibel Archive) The immediate ancestor of the “Rappin’ Ronnie” record was The Altered Nixon Speech, a one-minute tape collage made from…
Read & Burn: Post-punk legends Wire get Cubist (and accidentally inspire Kanye West) live in 2004
An eye, a nose, a mouth, a cup, a bell, a drill……. In 2002, after more than a decade of quiescence, London’s legendary punk group…
That time Neil from ‘The Young Ones’ released his ‘Heavy Concept Album’
Hippies make the best capitalists. They are the passive-aggressive masters who use their artificial sense of moral superiority to sell you shit you don’t need.…
Everybody–even Dick Clark–knows that the bird is the word: The Trashmen on ‘American Bandstand’
While it may be a stretch to say that the Trashmen invented punk rock, with 1963’s “Surfin’ Bird” they were very clearly one of the…
The Cramps play some of their favorite singles on BBC radio, 1984
via Pinterest When you’ve worn out The Purple Knif Show, do not cry. Just keep adjusting the dial until you tune in to Radio Cramps…
Klark Kent, the punk band that Stewart Copeland of the Police had nothing whatsoever to do with
From 1978 to 1986 the Police were an undeniable musical force, with five classic albums and ten U.K. singles cracking the Top 10. It’s a…
That time the FBI investigated the alleged murder of Trent Reznor
Other than the fact that the FBI, the Michigan State Police and Chicago’s finest all believed that Nine Inch Nails vocalist Trent Reznor was dead,…
A Beatles fan is hunting down all the original photos from the ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ cover
It’s obvious almost to the point of tedium to point out that the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, along with all of its…