Hope & Anchor is a pub in the Islington borough of London. In 1977, they held a series of concerts dubbed The Front Row Festival. Performances from those concerts were then culled to create a 2LP concert album that was a record for the ages. It's a crazy album with a wildly diverse set of artists, a line-up that shows a bygone era where an amazing assortment of diverse bands and genres co-existed in an open and free environment. Not only are a wide arrange of punk of and new wave artists featured on the album, but a good majority [...]
Now that I have a great turntable and pre-amp, I've been visiting the archives to see which albums and singles deserve to be re-recorded and re-posted. Obviously, the soundtrack to Urgh! A Music War was one of the first on the list. These new recordings sound light-years better than my last attempt, and I highly recommended you download them even if you have an older copy I posted. I've talked about Urgh! several times over, so I'll keep the intro brief. It's an amazing document of a time period in music, when the punk [...]
999, "Feelin' Alright With The Crew"
I'm a HUGE AC/DC fan, have been every since I was a kid and saw " Its a Long Way to the Top " video. The Austrian band played a huge part in how rock music could be delivered like a hot steak at a strip club and still does. And crazy enough if you haven't seen the local tribute band Hells Belles knock you down and take your lunch money you absolutely need to. The group hasn't played a local show since last year and like roller-derby with guitars their getting ready to [...]
Allow me to offer a brief apology to DC's independent record shops: I haven't graced your doorways in a while. I'm ashamed and I apologize. Oh, it's not for not wanting to, or should I say needing to. It's a balm to my psyche to be thumbing through your stacks of sheathed LPs. It's that, well...as we've been planning the 3rd installment of The Washington DC Record Fair this coming Sunday at Comet Ping Pong, I've felt the need to keep my wallet close by my side. I mean, I know what we have planned [...]
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The music event that Apple is launching in a couple of hours has leaks some info. This above, my friend, is the new iPod Nano. They are sleeker and the white one comes with black turn-wheel. The Nano comes in 5G. Also, it will be available with a sexy 16 GB storage space in many different colors. Meanwhile, the new iPod Touch is looking more and more like an iPhone. It comes in 3G now with a camera and looks thicker, no? This is the third generation so its functionality must work better. [...]
Je n'ai jamais rien eu à dire les 09/09/09 alors 999 Emergency (1978) si tu clic sur le premier 9 du 999 de la pochette tu seras chez eux et si tu clic là ils peuvent être chez toi sinon un peu d'histoire ici (et c'est pas mal)
En marzo de 1966, John Lennon -en interviú con Maureen Cleave- se aventuró a decir que su grupo era más popular que Jesucristo. Aquella declaración despertó el encono de una turba, pero tampoco faltó quien le diera un sentido menos sacrílego y más humano: el Cuarteto sí que era un mesías, pero no uno religioso, sino musical. El tiempo parece haberle dado la razón a la susodicha metáfora, pues hoy el calendario marca la segunda venida de los Beatles. [...]
SomaCow Media is proud to present ComaSow , brought to you by Toy Gun Cowboy . Geoff listened to them a while back and said that they were great but we ignored him so I finally played it. The first song we played was "Blowing Holy Smoke" which ended in crickets. The live chatroom thought it sounded like Beck/Cake/Butthole Surfers. It did, but yet their own sound if that makes sense? The second song we played was "99.9%" and again we both liked [...]
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999 - Homicide (mp3) The Killing Of America (out of print documentary - 1982) (divx)
No sense in beating around the bush here. I've been feuding with the world lately. The cable company who's screwed up my channel lineup and can't seem to figure out the problem is making me hate every person in every call center in every part of the world. The phone company who's unable to explain why my iphone goes completely black 1 outta 4 times when I remove it from my ear to push in additional numbers (impossible when the electronic keypad won't appear!) has pushed me over the edge. Even the beautiful weather here in Chicago is pissing me [...]
First things first - RIP Lux Interior... Now, onto the business, and this business was much, much delayed. In April of 2006 I put up the soundtrack Urgh! to much fanfare around the blogosphere (God I hate that "word") so much so that I had to get a server upgrade. Unfortunately, as it was pointed out to me several months ago those files were recorded on a turntable that spun too fucking fast. Since then I had been meaning to re-record the tracks and repost them, but life can be a bitch. Well, I [...]
Here's 999's 78' single for Emergency. This record is not just a great punk record, but an all-around fantastic slab of vinyl. "Emergency" takes a ton of calls from past and combines them with the spirit of the time while the flip "My Street Stinks" is a great straight-forward rock n' roll song and really round this record out. Why doesn't 999 get more credit? You'll be asking yourself the same question after listening to this record. This post has: 2 MP3's
Today in Music History: In 1998, during a gig in Tuscon, Arizona, a bottle thrown from the audience hit Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson. A security guard was then stabbed trying to eject a man from the crowd. 999 are an English punk band which formed in London in 1976. They are also one of the longest-lived groups of the English punk era. In the beginning they went through numerous name changes - the Dials, Fanatics and 48 Hours - until finally settling on [...]
Here's one recently heard on Sirius Satellite's Punk channel . As much as I've enjoyed the Clash and the Sex Pistols, I haven't had too much exposure in my life to other UK punk bands of the era (the late 70's punk "revolution"); bands like the Damned, the Buzzcocks, and this group: 999 . Formed in London in December 1976, the band was originally made up of singer / guitarist Nick Cash, guitarist Guy Days, bassist Jon Watson, and drummer Pablo LaBrittain. All but Watson are still going strong to this day, and should have [...]
This post goes out to Greg, the childhood buddy who introduced me to punk back in high school and in the process saved my rock 'n' roll soul from the likes of Journey, Styx, and REO Speedwagon. Thank you, Greg. I am forever indebted. The thought of tootling around town as a 43-year-old to the strains of You Can Tune a Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish gives me the willies. One of Greg's favorite bands back in the day was 999, a bubble-gummy Brit punk outfit who [...]
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