Hindu Love Gods: Wang Dang Doodle [ purchase ] In 1984, vocalist Bryan Cook along with Bill Berry, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills of R.E.M. played three shows in Athens, Georgia under the name Hindu Love Gods. At one of those shows, the original quartet was joined on stage by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and singer songwriter Warren Zevon. The group recorded two songs with Cook and Zevon in 1984 and played one more gig in 1986 with Cook and Stipe. That was pretty much it. Then, [...]
Four acts from the Twin Cities get the cover treatment as Town Full of Losers' first competition goes to a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hindu Love Gods: Raspberry Beret [ purchase ] In the mid-80s, while three-quarters of R.E.M. were helping Warren Zevon record his Sentimental Hygiene album, they banged out an album's worth of covers one night. In Several years later, the results of that night were released as the Hindu Love Gods one-and-only album. Most of the songs on the album were covers of blues standards, but the standout was this rockin' take on Prince's ode to scarlet headwear. It's a fun track, but the real reason I picked this [...]
Interesting heads up on something I learned about yesterday from USA Today's Pop Candy blog ... MTV has just launched a website that lets you watch all the videos you used to be able to watch on the network itself. You can find the site at http://www.mtvmusic.com/ . Here are a couple of samples of what you might find there... Son Volt: Drown Son Volt MTV Music R.E.M.: Orange Crush [...]
Hindu Love Gods don raspberry berets and, if it continues to be warm, won't wear much more.
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