From Timothy Thomas: “The Violent Femmes knit a a poignant piece of father-son psychodrama and an awkward admission of a teenage boy’s uncontrollable sexual urges out of something as mundane as needing to borrow the family car for a date.”: **********************************************************
This from Tim Cook via Facebook: “RE: the fifth Ramones record, and first bad one, End of the Century. These guys must not have noticed Spector ruined L. Cohen’s “Death of a Ladies’ Man” the year before. It would have been all worth it if only Spector could have put Marky Ramone down in 1980. …
This just in from Jon Chick: “I’ll keep a look out for good material. I really like the blog. Here’s something: This youtube vid is very old hat by internet standards, but I love that people take such care in vandalizing Steve Vai’s pompous shredding on a triple-necked guitar: Please don’t feel obliged to post …
1) We don’t care how you roll, and 2) you don’t roll so much as you accrete. It’s official, the suburban caucasian family rap video parody movement has jumped the shark. Fonzie roared over the tank during the first few seconds of this big budget Toyota “Swagger Wagon” commercial (above) which isn’t embarrassingly bad so …
This just in from Colette Moran, author of the fine blog, Clearly Nebulous: “Sometimes your children will surprise you with a blast from your past. I was curious when my 15-yr-old was playing this vid as she IM’ed on the computer… Of course, then I learned it had been used in a Shrek movie. They …
Stacked with cross cultural hahas, this “song” is the product of Geo Da Silva, a Romanian dance music “artist.” Performed in (barely) English, “I’ll Do You Like a Truck,” reached number five on the Dutch charts, according to Wikipedia. It’s a borscht belt (the original borscht belt) parody of every Budapest parent’s worst nightmare. The …
From: Kipp, Thomas J Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 10:02 AM To: Everyone Subject: FW: Bottomless Pit–Blood Under the Bridge 2×12″+CD preorder Welcome news from the ex-Silkworm boize in Chicago! Tom ________________________________________ From: Bottomless Pit Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 8:04 AM To: Bottomless Pit Subject: Bottomless Pit–Blood Under the Bridge 2×12″+CD preorder If you …
From: M Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:17 PM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: more unknown (to me) music I just found out about you know of these guys? a facebook friend posted it. I never heard of them. They sound historically very important eh? M ________________________________________ From: Kipp, Thomas J Sent: Wednesday, August 04, …
Selected nuggets from Wikipedia: “Mrs. Miller was signed to Capitol Records by Lex de Azevedo, a young up-and-coming producer at Capitol Records. His uncle, Bill Conkling, was the then-current president of Capitol Records. Azevedo was also a member of The King Family. He is now a successful music producer in the Mormon Church, and when …
Hard to believe I was almost 30 before I finally listened to Pet Sounds. SUMMERTIME, 1981 In preparation for my first cross-country road trip from the Midwest, to Seattle – where I’ve now made my home since 1985 – I was recording mix tapes to play in the car. I’d already filled several tapes with …
This Rollin’ Stone clip is extraordinary for several reasons. It gives us a Muddy Waters on film that’s as young as he’ll ever be, dressed to the nines, performing one of his signature tunes before a completely new audience, mostly young and largely white. It’s a warm summer afternoon fifty years ago. As yet there …
There’s a photo going round the net that’s started everyone talking. It depicts Paul Stanley’s feet on stage, ensconced in thigh-high platform shoes held together by duct tape: From: Howard Brown Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 11:13 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: Paul Stanley’s boots Paul Stanley’s boots (click here): “Last night, my pal …
This just in from Jim Anderson: “Saw ’em with my daughter. Both “You Got Me” and “Mountain Man” are amazing. Check it out. Start with this…” * * * * *
Thanks Teee-ummm! On a parallel track, I’ve been intensively investigating the output of Gulcher Records [MX-80, Gizmos, Gynecologists, Dancing Cigarettes, et many al.] for the past two years or so and would recommend the punkier quadrants of their extensive catalog unreservedly! http://gulcher.gemm.com/c/search.pl?for_seller=GULCHER&table=ads&showall=1 I must have about 20-25 cds now, and am fascinated by this mid-to-late-Seventies …
Justin Renney brings you an excellent My Bloody Valentine live clip: Back in 1996 when a friend of mine introduced me to My Bloody Valentine I wasn’t that impressed. That same friend wound up gifting me a copy of Loveless a couple years later and by 1998 I was checking fansites like expectdelay trying to …
My old friend and one of Pandomag.com‘s stellar photographers, Justin Renney, was involved in putting this amazing project together. He was Director of Photography, Music Director, filmed every scene, and is listed as an Associate Producer on the page called “The Team.” It’s an interactive movie, out now on DVD and available for a limited …
From: J Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:04 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: RE: Brand new praise for TK’s 1982-83 stint w/ Diction, from a thoroughly unexpected source! So what exactly makes something grunge and how was the DD song the beginning of it? I know that back in the day (when I walked …
Parini, the great 90s Seattle band which featured Lisa Orth– a longtime Seattle artist and musician, founder of 66 Saints and designer of cover artwork for “Bleach,” the first Nirvana album–on guitar and Dan Paulus on drums, passed into history a long time ago, but Rob Hursh has found, digitized and resurrected this fantastic clip:
Capt. Spaulding, tending to overgrowth in the garden of love, declares: “This is simply a decent-to-good song that could use some pruning — it’s too long by at least a minute — and which expresses a sociological statement of some sort with all the classic earnestness of youth. That is to say, it’s by turns …
From: J Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:04 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: RE: Brand new praise for TK’s 1982-83 stint w/ Diction, from a thoroughly unexpected source! So what exactly makes something grunge and how was the DD song the beginning of it? I know that back in the day (when I walked …
This just in, from Claude Iosso: “Where is Black Francis’ mind? We have a better idea these days — aliens from outer space and Mexico and the triumph and emptiness of L.A. life are recurring themes in the great man’s oeuvre. However, the Pixies were fascinating and kind of scary at least partly because their …
Yaz’s “Don’t Go” synth riff lives on in: ********************************************************** And here’s a link to a report from Change.org about discriminatory practices at hip hop concerts in Chicago’s Millenium Park, the first of which was a Kid Sister show: Hip Hop Prompts Discriminatory Security Practices – Chicago’s Millennium Park is a local, national and global treasure. …
The No Depression blog has a nifty, proud, duly diligent entry about the rising popularity of covers of Old Crow Medicine Show’s Wagon Wheel. Covers of Wagon Wheel are becoming so common that the song is described as the new “Brown Eyed Girl” after Van Morrison’s oft-covered 1967 hit: Against Me’s version of Wagon Wheel …
This just in, from Pete Erickson: “A few weeks ago you posted the Banana Splits theme song. Of all the Splits hits, “Doing the Banana Split” was always my favorite. Even if I didn’t know what the Motown sound was about, it always hit the right groove for me. This comes complete with an obligatory …
As leader of the group responsible for starting a youth cult, Generation X, BILLY IDOL was one of the original British punks who gave the rock establishment a good kick up the arse with such classics as “Ready, Steady, Go,” “Wild Youth,” “Your Generation” and “Dancing With Myself,” all of which are among the classics …
This is BernardStreetCred’s take on PJ Harvey‘s version of “Wang Dang Doodle“: “I like PJ, and I love almost all covers on principle — but here’s an instance where the singer and song don’t quite match up, despite what seems like a clever fit (her cover of Highway 61 Revisited that’s floating around out there …
Here’s is John Siscoe‘s take on Koko Taylor and “Wang Dang Doodle“: “Despite the antiseptic setting and lackluster backing, this is a valuable clip. Any blues performance from the ’60s is a relative rarity, and this gives us a look at Koko Taylor when she was young and in her prime, plus a fleeting glimpse …
High quality 1978 Rockpile clip: “I remember the night the kid cut off his right arm, in a bid to save a bit of power…”
After much negotiation, Ron Swanson submitted the following Top 25 list: I am not married to the list per se, but here’s the thought process, such as it is: put this out on the blog (more or less as is) and then add a link asking readers to vote for their fav songs to replace …