A lot of people have a lot of things to say about McLaren, and he could talk bollocks with the best of them, but mark my words...one day he'll be acknowledged as a great artist. Hat tip to Glen Friedman
Today is the 30th anniversary of the release of The Smiths' first single, the enduringly excellent "Hand in Glove." The song failed to chart — but it was later covered, curiously enough, by British pop singer Sandie Shaw, whose version reached #27 in the UK charts and helped a great deal in introducing the general public to the band. The idea of female singers covering the Smiths and/or Morrissey is interesting, simply because their songs are so quintessentially male in their own effete way. And so, in a repeat of the thought exercise we carried out with Leonard Cohen [...]
I'm not going to gild the lily here, partly because I'm a straight shooter, but mostly because I am neither a metallurgist nor a botanist. For the past year or so, we've been receiving an increasing amount of traffic here with each month attracting more hits than ever before. It seemed as though the good times would never end. However, something has happened in the last week. Traffic here has plummeted to less than half of what it had been over the last six months. In the corporate world, this situation would [...]
Back again with another 802s playlist for the forth of July. Happy 4th! New Order - Blue Monday Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance B522s - Rock Lobster ABC - The Look Of Love Alphaville - Big in Japan Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me B Movie - Nowhere Girl (12" version) [...]
Sure, Annabella may have forgotten her clothing . . . Bow Wow Wow (1982) The Strangeloves (1965) It's hard to imagine too many people who dislike Bow Wow Wow's "I Want Candy" - it's one of those songs that's cool enough to appeal to the most stalwart indie rock lover, while being harmless enough (at least now, 30 years after its 1982 release on their I Want Candy album) to be found on the MP3 players of the most casual mainstream music listeners. [...]
I'm adamant that this is a photo of Adam Ant. One of the more amusing characters to arise at the beginning of the '80s was Adam Ant. Part punk, part glam rock, and a little Elvis Presley, Adam and the Ants were eventually one of the more popular groups to come out of the latter part of the British punk movement transitioning into New Wave, coming up about the same time as Siouxsie and the Banshees and (primarily because Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren stole the original "Ants" away from Adam to help create them) [...]
80s punk popsters Bow Wow Wow will be touring the UK this spring for the first time in about three decades. The 2012 version will feature Annabella and bassist Lee Gorman from the original act - drummer Dave Barbe couldn’t be persuaded and guitarist Matthew Ashman sadly passed away in 1995. Dates: APRIL 19 – Southampton The Brook 20 – Oxford Academy 21 – Birmingham Academy 23 – Wolverhampton Robin 2 24 – Leeds Brudnell Social Club 25 – York Fibbers 26 – [...]
Bow Wow Wow: Fools Rush In [ purchase ] 14 year old Burmese Londoner Annabella Lwin had been working in a dry cleaners when punk impressario Malcom McLaren recruited her and three members of Adam and The Ants to form the Burundi drummers-inspired Bow Wow Wow. Two years before their cover of the Strangeloves' "I Want Candy" hit the UK Top Ten , they released a poppy cover of this forty year old Johnny Mercer/ Rube Bloom standard, originally sung by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Ray Eberle and Billy Eckstine. [...]
Now that I've wasted so much time here establishing a few traditions, I'd be remiss to honor not them... Almost every artist in the history of mankind has at least one title in their catalog that is a compilation, a stopgap collection meant to maintain interest between releases (often to boost holiday sales) or to fulfill a contractual obligation. This is the former, a chance to make use, one more time, of a lot of wasted time over the past twelve months. Three years ago, I reflected on the annual, childhood tradition of [...]
One of the cable stations is running some week-long airing of the movies in the Rocky series. I remember seeing the first movie in the theater in '76 when the film was captivating the country and I've never seen an audience more electrified . It's a stellar movie. Numbers II and III were decent popcorn flicks, but by the time I got dragged to number IV, things had reached a cringe-inducing point. That aside, I had to watch the opening montage to Rocky III when I happened across it if [...]
A few weeks ago, I was playing The Clash’s Combat Rock in the record store (where I work). When the song “Straight to Hell” came on, the clerk I was working with gave me a look and said something along the lines of “I didn’t think you liked MIA” (in reference to MIA’s song “Paper Planes”, which features a sample of "Straight to Hell"). For the record, I don’t like MIA, but I quickly corrected her as to what it was we were listening to. She responded, “Ah, I knew it sounded familiar, but the tempo was different.” This got [...]
The eventual huge hit (and much more well known) cover versions of these originals seem so obvious that I'm not even going to post the "After". These are songs that, believe it or not, every once in a while I'll meet someone who didn't know they were cover songs. Before - The Strangeloves "I Want Candy": Before - Gloria Jones "Tainted Love": Before - the Paragons "The Tide Is High": Before - Neil Diamond "Red Red Wine":
Before - Mahotella Queens "Umcolo Kawupheli" (No End To Music): After - Bow Wow Wow "Jungle Boy":
Several months ago, one of the cable stations burned an weekend showing episodes of The Twilight Zone . I, not wanting to appear ungrateful, burned an entire weekend watching episodes of The Twilight Zone . This continued a tradition dating back to college when - fall semester, sophomore year - I had to skip all classes that interfered with me watching Rod Serling's visionary show on WGN (it aired weekedays, noon 'til one o'clock). One of the classes that I often missed due to this unfortunate scheduling conflict was a class on the occult [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Rockers and politicians are no strangers to each other of late, with top artists like Bruce Springsteen , Pearl Jam , R.E.M. , Will.I.Am and more campaigning during the last two presidential elections. But punk and heavy metal icons like Slash , X 's Exene Cervenka , Motorhead 's Lemmy , Kiss ' Ace Frehley , Nashville Pussy 's Corey Parks, Billy Corgan and the Runaways [...]
Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens - “Umculo Kawupheli” Malcolm McLaren, best-known as the manager of the Sex Pistols, passed away recently. Although a fan of his music—1983’s Duck Rock is a visionary and enthusiastic work of genre-hopscotching—I can’t help but feel ambivalent about his career. Perhaps Tom at It Took Seconds put it best when said the McLaren was “a good businessman but not a good businessman”. After the Sex Pistols, he recruited 3/4’s of Adam and the Ants to [...]
Londres, la boutique SEX, Vivienne Westwood, Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious... La scène la plus célèbre de la carrière de Malcolm McLaren, vous la connaissez tous par coeur. Les New York Dolls puis les Sex Pistols, des noms à consonance bien trop familière pour qu'il soit utile de revenir une énième fois sur les fameux faits d'arme du manager le plus célèbre de la planète rock, décédé brutalement le jeudi 8 avril 2010 à l'âge de soixante-quatre ans. Plutôt que de ressasser ce que vous avez déjà lu dans tous les journaux, Hartzine a préféré, pour lui rendre hommage, revenir sur [...]
Malcolm Mclaren Tribute Mix by Dj Premier Blog Radio on Mixcloud Download Mix Tellement fou! Les samples "Premier! Dj Premier!" sur les Sex Pistols! Enjoy. And RIP Malcolm... tweet
DJ Premier , y'know the guy who defined what fundamental NYC Hip Hop production sounds like by producing Ganstarr, MOP, Group Home, Biggie, Nas and a zillion other peoples classic record pays tribute to punk/fashion antangonist Malcolm McLaren who passed last Thursday at the age of 64. Premier's tribute splices soundclips of McLaren stumbling up Hip Hop in the early 80's because "a big black guy"" was wearing a Sex Pistols t-shir so McLaren struck up a convo with him. That man turned out to be Afrika Bambatta. The mix follows through the 80's and his [...]
pic Candy , specifically sugar candy , is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants are added. Candies come in numerous colors and varieties and have a long history in popular culture. The word "candy" comes from the Sanskrit खुड् "çahn-da", meaning "piece (of sugar)", which again perhaps from Dravidian (cf. Tamil கன்டு kantu "candy", கட்டு kat tu "to harden, condense"). [1] In North America, candy is a broad category that includes candy bars , chocolates , [...]
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