Next year is the 20th anniversary of Tomorrow the Green Grass. It seems like a lot more than 20 years. Twenty lifetimes maybe. This pre-9/11 video looks like it was filmed long ago in a happier parallel universe. And yet, the images fit the sounds perfectly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ioiFqPqnQ
Twenty-two years ago, on David Letterman’s 10th Anniversary show, Jan. 18, 1992, at Radio City Music Hall, Bob Dylan and a host of musicians performed “Like a Rolling Stone.” In addition to Dylan, the musicians included Chrissie Hynde (guitar, harmony vocals), Sid Mcginnsss (guitar), Steve Vai (guitar), Carole King (piano), Paul Schaffer (Hammond organ), Edgar …
My second concert of 2014 brought me back to Showbox Market to experience the utmost pleasure of seeing Reel Big Fish for about the sixth time and Suburban Legends for the second time. This double bill was not to be missed. Reel Big Fish are tight musically. They’re excellent musicians with a top rate horn …
Please listen to the song below as it is quite excellent and will appear on All the Pretty Things, an album from Decatur, Illinois sensation Ashley Riley which is set to be released 2/18/14. Ms. Riley hosts an open mic night in Decatur and through this she has been able to revitalize the underground singer-songwriter …
Robert Downey Jr makes showbiz magic with “Driven to Tears.” Originally released 34 years ago, this thought-provoking tune, essentially a plea for global sharing, comes across with more white soul cocktail activist power in this version than it did on Zenyatta Mondatta back in the day where it rocked in an interesting little jazzy groove …
My first concert of 2014 and I’m at the Showbox Market to take in some psychobilly. The now legendary Reverend Horton Heat headlined with Nekromantix and Old Man Markley opening. >Hailing from Dallas, TX, The Reverend (real name James Heath) played a mean Gretsch guitar while Jimbo Wallace slapped viciously away at his upright bass, …
It’s been an exceptional year in music, so I’m breaking with tradition to create a “best of” list of sorts. My 2013 list includes nine favourites, actually. Why only nine? It was nearly impossible to name a tenth and leave off everything else, so I’ll leave it there. Subjective though these lists may be, one …
According to the liner notes of Black Box, WaxTrax! Records moved from Colorado to a storefront on Chicago’s North Lincoln Avenue in 1978 after being “fueled by the punk revolution.” WaxTrax! issued its second single in 1981, featuring Divine of Pink Flamingos and Polyester fame. Also, in 1981, the record store and recording studio released …
Another Saturday night in Seattle and another stellar punk show is staged at El Corazon. This time legendary punk band X were headlining. Opening the show were the equally legendary Blasters and legendary (in the Pacific NW) Girl Trouble. Does it get much better? All three bands lived up to their legendary status. X is …
Over at Lost Wax Method, my cousin deftly recounts a performance of Handel’s Messiah by the Marshall Field’s Choral Society which we and some others attended in the 1980s. As an eye (and ear) witness, I can vouch for his accounts and descriptions, which are compelling and accurate. He recreates the tension, disappointment and humor …
…MRS. Rimkus was, along with the 13 year old Rimkus daughter and one of her BFF’s (the friend got Rimkus’ ticket – Rimkus MAD!). All reports are that it was a “f___ing awesome” concert. Enough so that the increasingly sullen early teen 13 year old Rimkus said “Thanks Mom – I really enjoyed it” (this …
Lost Wax Method has put together a lovely sonic Advent Calendar which features delightful, rediscovered, seasonal music every day ’til Christmas. See also: The Three Greatest Recordings of Handel’s Messiah, By Don Lundell The 20 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time, By Don Lundell Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium Sung By the Robert Shaw Chamber …
Last Saturday night November 30, Seattle’s foremost punk club, El Corazon, hosted the legendary Dickies. Although I’ve been a Dickies fan since 1979, I never saw them live until two years ago. I was so impressed I went back for seconds last Saturday. The Dickies play so fast live that it made it difficult at …
Legendary American musician and record producer Nile Rodgers is featured in this video, which is trending today. The clip’s main artist is Jota Quest, an enormously successful Brazilian act, and scenes of an apparently shy Nile are added to this roller disco melee, showing him strumming his guitar alone in what looks like a home …
On Tuesday night two days before Thanks Giving, pop-ska band Less Than Jake headlined a show at The Showbox Market. LTJ are the only ska band of notoriety from Gainesville, Florida. Florida is not known for its ska by any stretch of the imagination. But Less Than Jake would be a hard act to follow, …
On Saturday night November 16, I received a Facebook message that Natalie Wouldn’t were playing a show at Darrell’s with Nigel Mustafa opening. I received this message about two or three hours before it was supposed to happen. Obviously I was going out that night after all. It had been awhile since I’d seen Nigel …
Vancouver (CA) Western Swing band Petunia & the Vipers have a great and diverse sound. And a swell name. Blaster Phil Alvin called them “one of the best bands in the world of any type” and infamous Hollywood impresario Kim Fowley recently recommended them in an interview. Thus, what’s good enough for Kim Fowley is …
To borrow from Steven Tyler (or Gene Autry), Trentalange is back in the saddle again, after a four-year semi-hiatus from recording and performing — and the wait will be worth it, trust me. Her new album is due on shelves Jan. 28. Often twisting the knob a quarter-turn from the darkly tinted atmosphere of previous …
Behold Barbara Trentalange’s video for her new song “Same Illusion.” It’s a nifty little kaleidoscope, a cascade of arresting synaesthetic images which project a brave and cool new world, rearranging the old world of black and white coolness and making it new by injecting a steamy, red-lipsticked blush of carnality. Fear not, Trentalange has an …
A bright beam swept the night skies of Britain’s East Anglia for decades, looming large in genius-musician Thomas Dolby’s memories of childhood. It was doomed to darken, it’s supporting tower about to literally crumble into a sea that will eventually claim Dolby’s ancestral land, as well. This poignant aspect of Dolby’s homecoming — after spending …
Юлия Беретта – Подруга-Крокодил – Julia Beretta – Girlfriend-Crocodile I kinda like this Russky chick band – for all the obvious reasons – but also for their catchy Crocodile song – and models or not, I think they may well actually be able to play their instruments – they’re not faking it in the way …
A friend and trusted contributor has lamented the recent nomination of Kiss for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame saying, “In that same nomination group is Nirvana and the Replacements. Wrap your mind around that. A talentless marketing phenomenon anchored in heavy makeup pitched against the very essence of substance over style. …
This pleasant little video reminds me of summer camp at Covenant Harbor on Lake Geneva in Wisconsin during the sacred seventies. If you visit the band’s
This one is so low-budget itz awesome. Imagine a 25 year old woman stuck re-living her 13th birthday party and you’ve grokked Athena…
Seattle’s Studio Seven Hosts All Things Macabre with Koffin Kats and Stellar Openers, by Holly Homan
It’s a chilly Saturday night in Seattle and I’ve headed south of downtown (SODO) to Studio Seven to catch a night of five northwest acts plus the legendary Koffin Kats from Detroit as headliners. I arrived to find two dudes on stage. One was front man for Hard Money Saints, Jack Rainwater, and some other …
This here Moonshoes “If You Want to Do It” video/single item definitely correlates (in its way) with one of the most unexpectedly delightful prizes ever to emerge from both the notorious K-Tel label and Robert Christgau’s Village Voice Consumer Guide column, in 1996— Robert Christgau— Roller Disco: Boogie from the Skating Rinks [K-Tel, 1996] Was there such a thing as roller …
Nothing at all creepy about a father and daughter singing about incipient adultery. Yet the clavinet somehow takes the funkiness of the situation, makes it literal, and all moral queasiness is banished: Alchemy. – Tom Fredrickson is the proprietor of the unparalleled music blog, Lost Wax Method.
Hi Marc: Thanks for brightening my return to work, after clocking less than FIVE days during the whole of September! I mean, this is “The Audio Fidelity Collection”!! Containing all FOUR studio albums of "Pantheon Purple"!!!! On GOLD!! The World’s (presumably few) remaining Ritchie Blackmore-ites must be spontaneously JIZZING! LOL Thanks again, – Tom Kipp —–Original Message—– …
David Bowie is a staple on classic rock radio, and deservedly so. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (and my Rykodisc extended version) is clearly a four-star album. I am also quite fond of Outside (1995) and Earthling (2007), among other releases. Bowie has had duds. I listened to …
For your viewing and listening PLEASURE, courtesy of your loyal, rock-obsessed, friend and colleague, TK: http://www.amazon.com/Mullets-Rock-Too-Love/dp/B000NDEXHU http://www.amazon.com/Mullets-Rock/dp/B00008J2QP And thus, a musical “genre” was named! LOL Still out there awaiting my hard-earned dollars, yet more 2cd “Sludge” Extravaganzas, these courtesy of the Doom Rock/Industrial Music specialists at Cleopatra Records! http://www.amazon.com/This-Mullet-Rock-Various-Artists/dp/B000BITTF8 http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Mullet-Rock-Various-Artists/dp/B000OYLT2A Happy to loan out #1 & #2 …