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 …
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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 …
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 …
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies at 80 – Yahoo! News So the ol’ goat finally kicked off. World will be a bit duller, sans doubt! I’ll never forget his greatest quote, offered up during the 1981 World Series, when I was amidst a ton of New Yorkers during my first month at Brown. That was …
By Tom Kipp “If I had to boil down for a Martian what “it” IS that made rock music the joy of my life, there could be no finer aural aid than this [The Sonics version of “Louie Louie” ] guitar/vocal Tandem Scream from the Id. They say Grunge was “raw”, but it may as …
7/01/2010 – from the great Tom Kipp: I always suspected ol’ Bob would bow out in the anniversary month of CG. [July 1969 seems longer ago than EVER right now.] And, after the conversation we had about Consumer Guide in 2006, driving back to his hotel from Greil and Jenny Marcus’ dinner party at the …
WATCH VIDEO HERE The Chemical Brothers – six-time GRAMMY® Award winning electronic duo – have released a video for “Skipping Like A Stone” – their recently released collaboration with Beck. Directed by New York based duo Pensacola, Skipping Like A Stone is a Lynchian trip that follows a stone on a journey from the riverbank to the city and beyond. During its travels, …
Today, The Chemical Brothers – six-time GRAMMY® Award winning electronic duo – release a new track from their forthcoming tenth album For That Beautiful Feeling to be released September 8th. “Skipping Like A Stone” is their second collaboration with Beck (following 2015’s massively successful “Wide Open”). The perfect union of celestial melody, warped noise, country-soulful vocals and relentless rhythm, “Skipping Like A Stone” is a …
Laugh in the Dark by Tommy Keene catches you by surprise and reminds you of fun as would a county fair stop on your way to a funeral. On “All Gone Away” Keene delves into the brief, transitory nature of our existence and asks “27 minutes left for you, how do you want it to …
There’s something faintly surreal about seeing Tim Midgett and Andy Cohen together onstage again. Five and a half years after Bottomless Pit played their last (and first) Seattle show, their recent Northwest engagement—Friday, April 13 at the Sunset and the following night at Bellingham’s Shakedown—felt like a long time coming, but it also felt as …
While he may have been a choirboy in real life (and good singers belong in the church choir), Eddie Money’s public persona always made him seem as if he were half musician and half underworld figure. Hence he was especially popular in Chicago in the late 70s, a time and a place when the culture …
I’m sure that an editor or two – and possibly a few peeps – might be curious as to my thoughts on Hugh Hefner’s passing. And so, on a borrowed laptop while on vacation, here goes: One has to be of a certain age, startlingly enough, to realize the influence of Hefner’s Playboy magazine in …
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 …
Hello, dear readers. August 5 proved to be another hectic day for Mr. Renton. Sunday began by covering the Seafair Cup races at Lake Washington, including another mindblowing aerial display by the Blue Angels. Nighttime found yours truly catching, simultaneously, JESSE SYKES at Gainesbourg and KASEY CHAMBERS at The Triple Door. In between, Mr. Renton …
One of the teachers in our high school, a Mr. Blake, was a former actor and knew Jonathan Frid (of TVs’s Dark Shadows) from those days. One day, Frid came to visit Mr. Blake at the school and to talk to his classes. My Humanities class with Mrs. Bertaccini met in one of the rooms …
Today is the 40th Anniversary of the release of Led Zeppelin IV, the high water mark of the rock era. Thanks to Sir Tom Kipp for notifying me of this momentous release date anniversary. By “high water mark,” I mean the point where the wave crested and broke. It’s not that there would be no …
This question comes from an unnamed source via Daniel Housman – Just how many brilliant obscure singer-songwriters were there in the early Seventies? I’m still getting over rediscovering Emmitt Rhodes — and now here’s David Ackles. Nobody was listening to this stuff, yet “Gimme Dat Ding” went Top 40? Tom Kipp – Let us add …
http://youtu.be/qAkubiZhly4 “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest …
This poetic little nugget (sent in by Mark Erickson) comparing and contrasting the Burst Beat with the Blast Beat, may be the most expansively cosmic piece of music writing ever. Titled, “Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism,” this ponderous net-ifesto has ignited controversy wherever it has been read. The author, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, said …
One thing not be taken away from The Who, they had the best rock documentary for miles and miles… However, Tom Kipp cautions, “The film does seem a lot sadder now, though, as opposed to celebratory, given what’s happened to those still alive when it was released…”
This is one of a million curios I missed between 9/11 and 2010: Alison Krauss singing a country-inflected version of John Waite’s 80s tune, Missing You, with a surprisingly young-looking John Waite singing along. As can be expected on any remake of a classic, this version produces mixed, though generally positive, responses. “It’s listenable. i …
Drummer Jimmy Cobb, alto saxophonist Sonny Fortune, bassist Buster Williams and guitarist Mike Stern range in age from 82 (Cobb) to 58 (Stern). Miles Davis, the man they play to honor, would have been 85 on May 26th. Sitting across from me at Seattle’s Jazz Alley, Tom Kipp wasn’t completely sure if four sidemen from …
Every conversation about music by everyone over the age of 25 goes like this. “I’m with Peter Stampfel. I’d say that “Pop Music” [in the post-Beatles sense] peaked in 1966. Though I think it [and commercial radio] did enjoy a glorious last hurrah in 1984!” – Tom Kipp .
Justin Soileau is a 23 year old, independent singer-songwriter from Texas. He’s currently living in Costa Mesa, California and striving for his big break. His music has been featured on the MTVu program, “The Freshman,” KROQ.com, and college radio stations at UC Irvine and UC Berkeley. His debut EP, “The Heat” was released on iTunes …
“Clearly the best video of all-time.” – Kurt Bloch “Could Jon Lord be just a little more Mod, please!” – Tom Kipp
Just in case you didn’t see this today: JOHN LYDON’S TOP OF THE POPS ROOTS REGGAE PICKS: http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/john_lydons_top_of_the_pops_roots_reggae_picks/ It’s been interesting to read in the Keith Richards book how very deep into reggae he was/is too. Of course, I knew about Peter Tosh opening for The Stones, living in Keith’s house, and Keith’s pad in …
Critic’s Roundtable, Part 4 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Behold! http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop Look carefully and you’ll see a ballot from yours truly. Almost nobody else voted for my picks, but I expected nothing less. A few observations: those rascally Posies finished at 190, beating out, …
When you answer “Beatles” to the question, “Beatles or Stones?” it shows that you don’t understand the question being asked, and if you don’t get it in 2011, you never will. – East Portland Blog Critic’s Roundtable, Part 3 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 …
Critic’s Roundtable, Part 2 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Tom is, as usual, generous, judicious and fair in his evaluation, and that’s why he always would have made a better rock critic than some of us of stronger, more strident opinions. But there are …