I’m going to guess that this has already been posted many, many times, but forgive me – I just got sent the link. Nice prank from a TV show at the Coachella festival, in which drunk, stoned and stupid concertgoers are extremely excited (and sometimes quite knowledgeable) about bands that don’t actually exist.
In an exclusive in ELLE’s May issue, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon talks candidly about her next chapter, and what really happened between her and Thurston Moore.
This is almost certainly the first and last time I’ve ever linked to ELLE magazine, but it’s a great piece about an intense, iconic and extremely interesting woman.
I recall a surreal moment in which she and I got within two or three feet of each other; way back in 1988, Mudhoney crashed on my college rental house floor, and Mark Arm left his sweatshirt at our house.
That’s OK, the next night Mudhoney opened for Sonic Youth in Los Angeles at The Roxy, so I brought the shirt to the show, and the bouncers or whatever let me backstage.
I bounded up the stairs, turned the corner into a tiny room, and totally made a sitting-on-the-floor-indian-style conversation between Kim, Thurston, Lee Renaldo and Mark Arm crash to a halt, with me nearly stepping all over Kim with my clumsy, unbalanced entrance. Her eyes just locked in with mine, and it was clear that her expression was caught between “that’s so nice of you to return his shirt” and “who the hell are you?”.
I mumbled a hello, thanks, really glad you’re playing here in LA, OK, thanks, gotta go – and tripped back down the stairs, back with the common people, where I belonged. Great night – and that show was captured on a widely circulated bootleg as well. Anyway – totally love Kim (I can call her Kim, you see), and this article’s well worth a read.
Was iTunes just a stopgap in the music-consumption revolution?
A good piece on yet another undeniable turning point in the consumption of music. I think he’s got it a little wrong in some cases; ownership, even of an mp3 file, allows you to do so many more things than a stream from Spotify – like, say, create a podcast like Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio.
can – the documentary http://tinygrooves.blogspot.com/2013/04/can-documentary.html
Great overview on the demented doofus-rock of South San Francisco’s THE BRENTWOODS, taken from Wipe Out fanzine #9. The band featured Darren and Karen, immediately post-Supercharger, as well as Danielle from The Trashwomen and the resplendent “Patty” on vocals.
LIVE SKULL, circa 1986 and featuring Thalia Zedek (previously of Uzi, later of Come), scanned from the pages of Forced Exposure #11.
Great late 90s Belgian garage punk fanzine called BAZOOKA, published by Tom Arnaert.
Before SUB POP was a record label, they put out cassettes by Northwest punks and art-damaged bands. This is an ad from 1983.
THE GIBSON BROS, scanned from Wipe Out fanzine, during their visit to Sun Studios in Memphis around ‘92 or so.
AGONY SHORTHAND 