The story of punk rock in America would have inevitably happened without CBGBs in New York, but it certainly wouldn't have been the same. Giving credit where credit is due: Punk Rock influenced Mainstream Music and the entire world. CBGB owner Hilly Kristal played a role in it all. CBGB proprietor Hilly Kristal, music supporter and keeper of the punk rock flame for three decades, dead this week at 75. This is a tribute.. CBGBs - opened for business in 1973 [...]
Hilly Kristal at CBGB (photo: wikipedia ) Well, I return from vacation only to find it's time for yet another memorial tribute post. Hilly Kristal , who founded legendary punk and post-punk club CBGB & OMFUG in New York's Bowery, died Tuesday, following on the heels of Max Roach's death and Tony Wilson's passing . Kristal was just as important to the mid '70s punk, and late '70s - mid '80s post-punk, art rock, and punk-funk scene in NYC and the US as Tony Wilson was [...]
Per the Associated Press : CBGB founder Kristal dies By CRISTIAN SALAZAR Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads, has died. He was 75. Kristal, who lost a bitter fight last year to stop the club's eviction from its home of 33 years, died Tuesday at Cabrini Hospital after a battle with lung cancer, his son [...]
DOWNLOAD: The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Hilly Kristal - Rock N Roll Jackson (excerpt) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (naive Melody) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Patti Smith - Piss Factory (MP3) (clip) DOWNLOAD: Patti Smith - All Along the Watchtower (live @ CBGB) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Television - Elevation (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Dead Boys - 3rd Generation Nation (MP3) [...]
After watching Noah Baumbach's excellent The Squid and the Whale on dvd last year, it led me to discover his film debut Kicking and Screaming (not that lame Will Ferrell one about soccer). If you want a simple description of Baumbach's films, basically they're like Wes Anderson movies, albeit brutally honest, while also dealing with very troubled and flawed human beings. That being said, there is humor to be had that manages to shine through with great writing and terrific dialogue. [...]
The "Days of the week" Theme Songs has reached its final post. It's Sunday, and I had no problems finding Sunday-songs at all. I guess musicians like the lazy Sundays, and we like the music they make. Here is the last of the "Days of the week" mixes: SUNDAY SONGS. Please comment if you like it, hate it or if you would like to add something. Thanks for listening. The songs will be online for one week only. The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday [...]
Partindo duma ideia da BBC Radio 1, decidi postar sobre os singles, escolhidos por ano, dos últimos 27 anos da história da música, os mesmos que tenho em comum com ela. 'Atomic' foi o terceiro single para o álbum de 1979 dos Blondie "Eat to the Beat". O B-Side da edição original era a faixa 'Die Young, Stay Pretty', também do mesmo disco. Atomic - Blondie
Blondie and Blonde Redhead are perennial favorites. The young Debbie Harry and her shocking blonde coif bouncing to poppy tunes reminds me of summer. Kazo Makino's piercing echo set against the melancholy drums and guitars of the Pace brothers is the call of winter ushering spring. But what about autumn? I'm all over this duo from New Zealand who rightly call themselves " The Brunettes ." Heather Mansfield and Jonathan Bree are what autumn dreams are made of-- a flush of mellow guitar and piano melodies [...]
Today's discussion...the new Debbie Harry single "Two Times Blue". If you haven't heard it yet, click play below. What do you think, does the Blondie singer still have it or not?! If anyone chimes in and says the mp3s are trash, I'll slap you so hard Sean Ryan will feel it! Here's the opening tracks from an album that should be in all of your collections... Parallel Lines [...]
Heads up. You'll want to set those digital video recorders if you have plans Saturday night, August 11th, because at 9pm VH1 premieres its upcoming special NYC '77 :: The Coolest Year In Hell. It promises to chronicle the story of one of the "most astonishing pop culture years in American history." I'll [...]
A Week In Music Sunday Sunday is derived from pre-Christian Egyptian astrology. Well here we are at the end of an eventful weeks posting, and I get the chance to finish on a high. There are many great songs connected with Sunday and I wish I was able to offer all the ones that were on my shortlist. But unfortunately my lack of bandwidth says that this cannot happen. In 1933 Rezso Seress, the Hungarian composer, wrote 'Gloomy Sunday'; a [...]
Ok so there are a couple of reasons behind this post. First, there was the Mars proximity email which had been circulating the last few weeks, and which turned out to be a hoax . Then there was this weeks hilarious episode of Flight of the Conchords featuring several David Bowie dream sequences culminating in one of the most memorable musical segments of the season (embedded below for your viewing pleasure). So I give you my tribute to David Bowie and to Mars . Please note that the only reference [...]
UNKLE Matt's illuminating descriptions will be online later, but I see no reason to hold back the tunes any longer. Check back tomorrow for Matt's commentary! Download: MC Honky, "Sonnet #3 (Like A Duck)" (mp3) (Right-click/control-click link to download) Download: Candi Staton, "I'm Just A Prisoner" (mp3) (Right-click/control-click link to download) Download: The Meters, "Ride Your Pony" (mp3) (Right-click/control-click link to download) [...]
The Nerves - Hanging on the Telephone (from a 1976 EP; collected on D.I.Y.: Come Out And Play - American Power Pop: 1975-78 , 1993) - The original version of this oft-covered track, by the seminal and short-lived LA power pop outfit whose members would go on to form The Beat (non-"English" version) and The Plimsouls. In a just world, this would be the version that everyone is familiar with. Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone (from Parallel Lines , 1978) - The [...]
Happy Birthday To You A double birthday celebration today and a big hug and kisses to all my fellow members of the blogosphere. Tutu Vicar is back after a bit of layoff and itching to get posting. Thankyou for all of you that regularly dropped by only to see Asia once again at the top of the blogpile. Oh the shame of it - but I hope to banish the AOR scoundrels to the bottom before too long. I noticed that today in 1979 saw [...]
First off, as a Canadian, it was really difficult for me to type the word "colors" with no "u" in it. That said, best concert ever. It was just so much fun. Oh, and I wanted to mention that I didn't know ahead of time that Molson Ampitheatre had hired the Gestapo to run security, but I really think that was a bad business move. I mean, they're efficient and all, but they're not very nice. AHEM. cry me a river www.thecliks.com [...]
A wistful (or confused) Imogen Heap While Caleb was on the road between Nashville and Champaign, IL, today, I was spending a melancholy day on the couch, watching way too much sports for a guy whose jobs are to blog every few days and read the news over the radio once every couple of weeks. (I did, however, get to see a college baseball player from my hometown hit a huge two-run homer to put the UNC Tarheels up for good against the South Carolina Gamecocks (terrific mascot name), sending them [...]
I just felt intrigued by the idea of Debbie Harry, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse and Mutya Buena being under the same roof, in the same room, having a tea party. But since that probably won't happen any day soon, I'll make it do in the form of a blog post. You know, at the end of May, Blondie made an appearance on The Today Show singing 'Heart of Glass' with none other than Lily Allen (who's been covering the song in her gigs). It took a while for the video [...]
Lots of other blogs have talked about Lily Allen and Blondie's performance on the Today Show, but I haven't seen any with the YouTube embed, just the crap link to NBC. I won't say must about it- here's the YouTube: [See post to listen to audio] Blondie feat. Lily Allen: "Heart of Glass" [Via Culture [...]
In a pre-performance interview Debra Harry was asked "how do you stay relevant?" by host Meredith Vieira . I believe the answer to that question comes in the response of Harry and the band playing the same song they've been playing for almost thirty years. Relevant, Meredith, really? Lily Allen came out following a performance of "One Way or Another" and laid down her part to "Heart of Glass" and made us all remember of how Harry used to be young (it's true she was!). [...]
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