Easy Action Records in the UK have released some pretty incredible live recordings of The Stooges, Iggy Pop, MC5 and Sonic's Rendezvous Band the past few years and now they bring us this monumental live Hawkwind document. Leave No Star Unturned captures them in January 1972 headlining a show that also featured performances by the Pink Fairies and Syd Barrett at a venue called the Cambridge Corn Exchange. Pretty cool line up. I can only imagine how fried everyone was but their lids must have really flipped once Hawkwind blasted into their intro song "Technicians Of [...]
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill Its hard to understand sometimes how every college freshman owns a copy of Dark Side of the Moon and maybe a few even go so far as to throw in Yes or a little King Crimson, but Hawkwind fails to wind up on the recommended listening list. Hall of the Mountain Grill , widely considered one of the band's pinnacles at least as far as studio albums go, is perfectly positioned to nab the most ardent Floyd fans. Its a superb mix of [...]
With Beavis and Butthead back on the air after nearly a decade-and-a-half hiatus, I thought I'd take a moment to offer my belated thanks to these two badly-drawn boys for turning me on to a couple of bands that otherwise would have escaped my attention. Even before MTV got out of the music video business, Beavis and Butthead were airing videos that would never have gotten any airplay via mainstream channels. Presumably channeling Mike Judge's musical tastes, Beavis and Butthead provided US viewers with the first glimpses of several well-below-the-radar bands including the Dead Milkmen, the Cramps, Daisy [...]
Toronto - A few songs in to Wooden Shjips set at The Horseshoe, I remarked to a friend that it was the best thing I've seen since Hawkwind. Now obviously I've seen tons of great bands since, many just as good or perhaps even better, but nothing that had quite the same feel as when I caught the space rock masters in France last June . My friend was equally impressed, but less versed in Hawkwind, but my opinion was validated by some random guy outside who made the same comparison. They share a simlar vibe - spacey, droney, psych heavy [...]
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Farther In This Fairy Tale by Sky Picnic DOWNLOAD : Sky Picnic - "The Unknown Regions" (from "The Unknown Regions" EP) DOWNLOAD : Sky Picnic - "Astronomy Domine" (from the Synesthesia sessions) Sky Picnic released their first full length, Farther In This Fairy Tale early last year and the band just signed to Nasoni-Records who released a limited edition vinyl version of the disc (100 copies on colored vinyl and 400 copies on black). I can't [...]
Clisson - Our top story tonight: Phil Lynott is still dead. Yes, I just referenced a 36 year old Chevy Chase joke. Not exactly the most topical, but then neither are Thin Lizzy . The Irish rockers recently reunited sans their departed frontman and were playing at Hellfest , a metal festival situated just outside of the small French town of Clisson. Billing themselves as a tribute to Lynott and featuring a mix of original members and new additions, this new version of Thin Lizzy seems pretty clearly to be an exercise in nostalgia, both for the fans [...]
By Brian Correia Moog gets all the credit. The iconic American company is pretty much synonymous with the synthesizer and the genesis of electronic music as we know it today (despite the fact that few people even know how to pronounce "Moog" correctly). The name pops up fifteen times in the Wikipedia article for "electronic music". But Moog is not the only synthesizer game in town. In fact, all over the Western world, scores of composers and inventors had begun experimenting with electronic music [...]
21 May, 2011 On it's third trip outside of London, Stag & Dagger feels a bit jaded. Possibly it was the wet weather dampening down enthusiasm but even wristband collection is a downer (and where is the mention of the free shot?). Times may be hard too as I'm convinced the wristbands were left over from last year seeing as they were the same colour and didn't think Firetrap were a sponsor this time round. Free ad for them then if they weren't. [...]
I was bummed last month when I heard that FUBAR's Dean "Deaner" Murdoch (Paul J. Spence) was detained at the Canadian border and would not grace the SXSW Film Festival with his presence. So, I took matter into my own hands and tracked the one-balled mustachioed metalhead down and asked him for some sticky pearls [...]
hawklords - "psi power" (download) Hawklords formed during one of Hawkwind's inactive years. They only released this one album, 25 Years On , and this song "Psi Power" is actually a slightly different version than the Hawkwind original . I prefer this version because it has a sort of Lou Reed Transformer -era vibe to it. buy
This week The Cargo Culte is featured on the "Anatomy of a Blogger" program over at BreakThru Radio. Listen and laugh as theallseeingi stutters, stumbles, rants and rambles through a hard nosed interview…weep with joy at the delivery of another sublime playlist…. 00:00 Intro 01:21 Interview with Isreal part 1 04:29 Mighty Mighty - The [...]
And now a playlist of my favorite random new-to-me tracks I downloaded in the last month. Most are from new releases or yet-to-be-released albums, with a couple classics tossed in for good measure. Shout out to the Cargo Culte for hipping me to three of these tracks ( Fugiya & Miyagi , Hawkwind , and Spacemen 3 ). Also, the Atlas Sound track came from a great mix by Kenny Bloggins at the Decibel Tolls . (I've been remiss on checking out much Atlas Sound due to being only lukewarm on Deerhunter, but "Quick [...]
At 7:20 a.m. Saturday April 24 2010, former Nazi and cult leader Paul Schäfer died of heart failure in a Chilean prison hospital, closing a decades-long story of torture, tax evasion, and child sexual assault. Schäfer had served five years of a 33-year prison term, which included 20 years for the abuse of 25 children. [...]
Hawkwind - Down Through The Night
W hat can you say about the best english space-rock band in the world.... The dude at 'The Dreaded Press' wrote a great review about Hawkwind's 'Love in Space' and thats cool because the people overthere are beter writers then i am. [mr.A] Love In Space is the last truly great live album from Hawkwind. Augmenting their surprisingly versatile and headstrong trio line-up of Dave Brock (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Alan Davey (bass, vocals, synths) and Richard Chadwick (drums, vocals, synths) was previously unknown vocalist [...]
michael moorcock's deep fix - "time centre" (download) Michael Moorcock's Deep Fix was a project between science fiction writer Michael Moorcock and members of psychedelic prog rock legends Hawkwind . They recorded a few things together, but none of their work has seemed to top the B-side to this single that they released in 1982. The A-side, " Brothel In Rosenstrasse ," was named after one of Moorcock's novels, and " Deep Fix " was named after one [...]
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