‘Sifter’: Round Eye talks to Dangerous Minds about shooting their video in North Korea
As a band of American expats (and one Italian) living in Shanghai, the pre-emptively named prog-punk band Round Eye get opportunities that most bands would…
Music Archives: 05/2017
DEVO meet William Burroughs: ‘David Bowie would never make an audience shit their pants. We would.’
Marilyn Chambers said no. The star of Behind the Green Door and Insatiable did not consent to participate in one of those two-way interview features…
Inside the Batcave: A 1983 news report on the legendary London goth club
Liori Patterson at the Batcave, photo by Pierre Terrasson (via Pinterest) In 1983, the London Weekend Television series Reporting London paid a visit to the…
Drugs, Money, Music, Family (and George Harrison?): Obscure Colorado label, Tumbleweed Records
Light In The Attic Records is about to release Sing It High, Sing It Low: Tumbleweed Records 1971-1973, a compilation of recordings originally released by…
A young Primal Scream before ‘Screamadelica’: Live in London 1987
One small but hugely significant turning point in the long career of Primal Scream came when Alan McGee gave Bobby Gillespie an ecstasy tablet at…
Acid Mothers Temple’s cover of eerie ‘Twin Peaks’ song to be released next week
The whole world is waiting impatiently for the return of Twin Peaks later this month on Showtime. The original run of Twin Peaks on ABC…
Far-out sci-fi album art for ELO, Giorgio Moroder, Earth, Wind & Fire and more by Shusei Nagaoka
The cover of Jefferson Starship’s 1976 album ‘Spitfire’ by Shusei Nagaoka. You may not know Japanese artist Shusei Nagaoka by name, but there is no…
‘My God, ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ was so fruity’: George Harrison dishes Beatle dirt, 1977
At the end of 1976, George Harrison released Thirty Three & 1/3, a return to form after a few moribund years in the mid-‘70s—even critics…