November 2011
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Stoned Immaculate. Aphex Twin’s Remote Control Orchestra live in Poland.
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Mark Arm, Megan Jasper Redbull Music Academy lecture. Some topics: grunge era, post-grunge era.
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Beavis and Butthead are back!
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Various Artists- Tha East Comin Thru EP (1994)
Some overlooked rap music from Brooklyn, New York. This is an EP through East New York Records, which only had another EP in 1999. A true lost classic.
A1. Madman Shawn - Walk Thru Hell (Street Version) A2. Tha East Click - S.O.N.S. (Street Version) (Feat. Full Clip , Madman Shawn , Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard) A3. Full Clip - Do You Hear A4. Hasani Baby Be Mine (Feat. Red Bandit)
B1 - Madman...
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The 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind arrived with much fanfare last month. But rarities from the Seattle grunge legends continue to hit the Web and the Boston Phoenix has got its hands on a recording of of the band’s show at now-shuttered club ManRay in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 18, 1990 — before Dave Grohl joined as the drummer.
The crowd only numbered between 60 to...
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Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain - Acid Dreams: The...
Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain’s exhaustively researched and astonishing account-part of it gleaned from secret government files-tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early l950s and launched a massive covert research program, in which countless...
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God Bullies - Kill The King (1994)
The very name strikes fear into the hearts of penitent types everywhere. God Bullies. Hailing from Kalamazoo, Michigan, home of the state’s largest mental facility and some particularly noxious ground water contamination (both coincidences, we are assured). God Bullies. Midwestern weirdness from the region that invented the name. God Bullies
Formed in 1986, the...
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Punk, disco, hip hop, the blackout, Son of Sam, Tony Manero, CBGB, Studio 54, Max’s Kansas City, Show World, Paradise Garage, cocaine, polyester and leather—1977 in New York City was exhilarating, a nightmare, fun, dangerous and never boring. It was the year I arrived in downtown Manhattan with a beautiful woman, no money and a rock and roll band. I hit the streets running and never looked...
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Quotes: Grunge
This year is the 17th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s suicide. In the years since his death at the age of 27, the loss of the Nirvana frontman has been mourned by his family, friends, and colleagues: his widow, Courtney Love, his former bandmates, and artists who perform a dark, grungy style of music that’s similar to Cobain’s, like Neil Young. But Cobain has also been eulogized...
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