Out of the waving wheat that sure smells sweet comes Ignacious with another great review–this time his focus is on PiL and their opus Metal Box.
Public Image Limited Concept Albums:
(1 of 3) – “METAL BOX”
Metal Box’s overrunning importance today, when issues as to the health of Mother Nature and planet Earth are smothered by interested [...]
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metal box – public image limited
Posted in Albums, Bands, Personal Shit, PiL, Punk on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ron Asheton RIP
Posted in Albums, Garage Rock, Glam Rock, Obituaries, Punk, The Stooges on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead today. He was only 60.
Though all obituaries about him will start by mentioning his work with the Stooges, including mine, I think perhaps he’d prefer to be remembered for some of his work without Iggy Pop. So here it is, a track from his mid-seventies hard rock band, [...]
The Haunted House of Horror
Posted in Albums, Bands, Celebrities, David Bowie, Ghosts, Movies on December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is one of those films that you know kind of sucks but you still have to see. I usually hate spoilers, but I just have to say it: Frankie Avalon gets stabbed through his dick in this movie! There is a crotch stabbing, and the Big Kahuna gets it! And you also get to [...]
I don’t believe a Zappa on a Sunday!
Posted in Albums, Alice Cooper, Bands, Celebrities, Comedy, Other Stuff, Performers, Personal Shit on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I want to stress that I have had some friends who were uanbashed Zappa dorks. Like, people who would claim his version of “Ring of Fire” was better than the Johnny Cash version. Or who would sit around watching Zappa dick around on stage in 1983 with a bunch of drums and chimes. I am not [...]
Van Dyke Parks
Posted in Albums, Bands, Celebrities, David Bowie, Folk, Performers, Personal Shit, Religion, Songwriters, The Beach Boys, The Beatles on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been commissioned to write a review of Inara George and Van Dyke Parks, and I’m pretty stoked. This dude worked on Smile, which is one of my favorite albums of all time (and I own thousands). Most people put Pet Sounds in that category, but in my opinion, while Pet Sounds was a pioneering [...]
Obama, don’t flip-flop when it comes to the war.
Posted in Albums, Bands, Folk, Love, Obama, Other Stuff, Performers, Personal Shit, Politics, Songwriters, The Stooges on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was trying to write something lighthearted, to cheer me up after the crushing defeat the Democrats brought upon themselves and us today when the Senate voted for the FISA bill.
The thought struck me after reading the words of Howie Klein and company on Crooks and Liars that there’s another former musician/music curator, namely one [...]
the Zabriskie Point soundtrack
Posted in Albums, Bands, Country Rock, Farfisa, Folk, Movies, Other Stuff, Personal Shit, Shows, Winter Flowers on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, my baby and I rolled on out to the High Desert to Pappy & Harriet’s to see Winter Flowers, the Chapin Sisters, and a bunch of really amazing bands at the Manimal Festival.
We left L.A. early, didn’t hit much traffic, and about an hour in I put in the first CD from the Zabriskie [...]
Thee Makeout Party release an album!
Posted in Albums, Bands, L.A. Record, Shows, Songwriters on June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love Thee Makeout Party’s new record. It’s called Play Pretend, and it’s coming out on Teenacide Records for the CD and Recess Records for the LP version (I used to be in a Teenacide band, so I got an early copy).
Our one-time staffer Dan reviewed it over at L.A. Record.
Los Reactors
Posted in Albums, Bands, Movies, Punk, Songwriters, Television on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tulsa had its own synth-punk band in the early early eighties–Los Reactors. Actually, it’s not fair to call them a “synth” punk band, because during the height of their powers, their singer, Joe Christ, played a Farfisa, just like the dude in the picture in the header of this here website!
I first picked up a copy [...]
Anita Bryant is a little sex kitten!
Posted in Albums, Celebrities, Gay and Lesbian stuff, Performers, Personal Shit, Politics, Religion on May 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I was thrift store shopping in Joshua Tree, and ran into this album cover. Ooh, sweet Jesus…
She’s got a face and a form that makes me want to shake the paint off her walls! I know that she was a bigot in the seventies and eighties who fought against the rights of gay Americans, but [...]
