Late in 2017, in famed tobacco town Winston-Salem, in a jam box perfumed with stale beer, manly sweat, smokes that “taste good like a cigarette should,” a glass pipe of skunk grass, and the occasional splash of moonshine, Crenshaw Pentecostal began their American saga. It was a low-light grieving session. This group of friends happened …
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By most odds, the singer should’ve been dead over 40 years ago. Then quite obese – yet energetic on stage – part of the “Bat Out of Hell” phenomenon in the late 1970s were fans fearfully speculating that every concert would be his last. And Meat Loaf was a true phenomenon; his solo debut was …
Jim Steinman had “IT.” Writing a musical at 18? His German musical version of “Bat Out of Hell” starred Franziska Schuster. Bat Out of Hell (musical) | Jim Steinman Wiki | Fandom Ms. Schuster is the vocalist in a band called The Huggee Swing Band. It’s song, “Peel Me a Grape, has THREE Youtube (YT) views. …
This is an incredibly good ’87-’96 tribute: Pixies, Posies, Replacements, Nirvana, Weezer, Matthew Sweet, the theme to “That 70s Show,” and (my favorite Seattle band of the era) Flake, all in a single song. What’s more, the official music video, below, is packed with dozens of smile-inducing visual homages to ’90s slacker film and TV. …
Did I say it might take me a while to keep up with a thread? I just wanted to respond to your comment, most excellent Theophilus, that I was really happy to get excited about a new band in this case. Unlike you, I liked the new music coming out in the ’90s, but I’ve …