Dez Dickerson’s awesome blink-and-you’ll-miss-it song (featuring Prince) in ‘Purple Rain’
Less than 60 seconds of a tune called “Modernaire” is heard in Purple Rain, the 1984 film starring Prince. The group performing the song, led…
Music Archives: 06/2018
Sheffield Tape Archive, one-stop shop for the Gun Club, Rudimentary Peni, the Fall and Pulp
The 1985 compilation ‘Sheffield Calling’ (via Sheffield Tape Archive) Sheffield Tape Archive collects demos and live tapes recorded in Sheffield and its environs between 1977…
Psycho killer? David Byrne’s isolated vocals from ‘Once in a Lifetime’ sound like a crazy person
“Once in a Lifetime” is not only one of best-known tracks ever released by Talking Heads, in some ways it represents the culmination of the…
The Fool: The Dutch artists who worked for the Beatles (and made their own freak folk masterpiece)
“It appears that some part of Slothrop ran into the AWOL Džabajev one night in the heart of downtown Niederschaumdorf. (Some believe that fragments of…
The explosive teenage garage rock of Pittsburgh proto-punks, the Swamp Rats
If you’ve never heard ‘60s garage rock maniacs, the Swamp Rats, you’re in for a treat. Though the teenage outfit almost exclusively dealt with material…
‘Avoid all systems’: Dangerous Minds interviews Damo Suzuki
via energythefilm.co.uk Damo Suzuki, the legendary singer of Can, Dunkelziffer, Damo Suzuki Band and Damo Suzuki’s Network, is the subject of the upcoming documentary Energy.…
Joy at Sea: That time the Meat Puppets and the Minutemen played a show on a boat (A DM premiere)
Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) and D. Boon (Minutemen) [photo: Ann Summa] Wait, the Meat Puppets and the Minutemen played on a boat?! Yep, it happened.…
Punk mystery solved: the face in the Discharge logo is Mark Stewart of the Pop Group
One item you might have missed in the neverending news tsunami of the past couple years: the quadrisected, photocopied face in the Discharge logo belongs…