You know what is serious blackmail material? Having a friend who is now a minor league MMA/Ultimate fighter, but in his past life was one of the 'Nasty Boy' dancers in Janet Jackson 's Nasty video. That said I'd probably get a serious roundhouse to the chops if I squealed. So until I get a better dental plan, I'm keeping mum (and well away from the fucking Octagon ). But speaking of Janet, got two covers of Ms. Jackson's Nasty for you today; a homegrown funk [...]
There we were. Gail and me. Eye to eye. Toe to toe. Penis to vagina belly (she's only 52 63). Who would crack first? Would she turn and run? Would she prematurely reach for her rape whistle? Would she rush towards me and embrace me. Could she cry into my shoulder and say, "Evan. You found me. I love you."? The answer, of course, is none of the above. After all my hours roaming the streets of New York City this week I have exactly ZERO Gail Simmons sightings about which to boast. If I'd known ahead of time that [...]
Lo and behold, the iPod shuffle has chosen once more. In this again rather diverse edition of Wild Weekend we pay visits to Alabama, Düsseldorf and Whiskey Boot Hill, and see how three charming English ladies get their groceries. And that´s not all, folks. "Do a runner! Do a runner!" Or: my fave all-girl combo the Slits goes shopping the proletarian way, with a great postpunk reggae riddim on the side. "Babylon won´t lose much, and we´ll have dinner tonight". Meanwhile back in ´68, former Byrd Gene Clark teams up [...]
WFMU is my favourite radio station in the world, but for some odd reason i never listened to the show Shut Up, Weirdo before this past couple of weeks, when i seem to have listened to about 20-odd episodes (odd being the operative word). Anyway, the SUW binge got me flicking through some of FMU's other webspaces. While browsing the 2010 marathon 1 Flickr gallery, i was reminded of the genius of today's song of the day after seeing the Knuckles the Dog velvet painting : [...]
was reminded this week of the giddy joy of brainiac. which in turn, sequentially, with hideous logic, with inexorable chronological certainty led to sad sad youngold man reminiscing of halcyon punkrock juvenilia. which inevitably led to touch and go records . reductionally, touch and go records is an independent record label based in chicago, illinois, usa. expansionally, the perfect marriage of squalid chording (back then) and punk rock business spunk. and, along with dischord as a way to run a record label (no matter which side of the t&g / butthole surfers fence yr sitting [...]
said some old crooner. and i like christmas time. crabbit bastard that i am. when that old month of december rollsrightaround and i get to open the first door on my spiderman chocolate advent calender i get a nice warm sensation deep down in my guts. not from the jagermeister. well not all of it. filled with joy i am. i love the toomuchness of it all. the ugly excess. the debt. the twentythird mince fucking pie. that old school pagan shit of dragging a too big norwegian fir into yr goddam lounge and lighting it up like . . . well like [...]
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The following recording was taken from WFMU's Beware of The Blog , and I have no shame in posting the files here because I will be providing their blog with fresh content later today! I think that's a fair trade-off, right? I blog for them, I can extract from their audio goldmine the occasional in-studio performance. Everybody wins. Except for the WFMU blog readers who have to grin and bear my verbose drivel every other Thursday. On October 13th, 2008 I went to see Killdozer at The Echo in Los Angeles . Less than a month [...]
Along with the likes of SST, Chicago based label Touch & Go was the citadel of hardcore / punk / noise rock in the 80s, with such luminaries as Butthole Surfers, Big Black, Killdozer and Laughing Hyenas filling the label's roster. Unlike SST, however, the label didn't gave up its original direction and by the end [...]
"Killdozer" was a bad 1974 movie about a bulldozer being used to try to dig up a meteor by a construction crew. The bulldozer took on a life of it's own and started running over everything in site and killing all the people that got in it's path. And damn, if you've ever heard some of the messed up covers by the band Killdozer, the name seems kind of fitting... they bulldoze through the songs and they take on a life of their own. Killdozer were pretty much a grunge band before there ever was such a thing... [...]
I don't like psychics. I've only ever visited with one, and she scared the shit out of me. That was in New York, after my freshman year of college. My mother took my sister and I to see some Broadway show (I don't remember which one it was), and after a delicious dinner at Patsy's we still had some time to kill before the theater doors opened. Walking somewhere in the vicinity of 56th and Broadway we saw a sign for a palm reader. I remember the lady bringing us up to her apartment on the second floor. I remember [...]
With the internet here in town being down almost the whole day it gave me time to fool around and rip this gem of a split 10-inch featuring Killdozer and Ritual Device . Better yet, for those that haven't heard this before, the split is nothing but Zep covers. Killdozer doesn't disappoint (as would be the case with about any cover they ever did) with their version of "When the Levee Breaks" and Ritual Device lays down a pretty solid version of "No Quarter" that probably is my favorite cut from this pairing. [...]
OK, I'll admit that I did a cartoonish double take over my Thanksgiving leftovers when I read that THE JESUS LIZARD ARE REUNITING "for a very limited series of live dates in 2009," according to the band's former label Touch & Go, which will also be reissuing four classic albums from the group. This [...]
On a landmark day for the country, I welcomed the midwestern band that makes my heart swell with American pride like no other. Birthed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1982, Killdozer sludged through such classic LPs as Snakeboy , Burl , For Ladies Only , and Twelve Point Buck before calling it quits in the late 1990's. They returned briefly for Touch and Go's 25th label anniversary bash, and graciously agreed to perform (and put us in the Election Day mindset) this week on my show . As we [...]
If you like noise rock and you live in or near New York City, the next week-and-a-half will melt your genitals clean off. You read right. The molten manmeat madness starts on Sunday, when Harvey Milk headlines the (now Tombs-less) Beasts Of The East festival at Club Europa in Brooklyn. The event starts at [...]
Last night I was rendered speechless by yet another incredible live performance. It seems like the past few months have given me opportunities to witness some truly awe-inspiring bands. When I read in August that Madison, Wisconsin's Killdozer had a handful of tour dates scheduled for 2008, I nearly shit my pants and died. Sure, their first album came out when I was but one year old, and split for the first time when I was seven years old...but that doesn't mean I can't call myself a fan, right? Their songs are so rich in technical nuances and humor (see: [...]
Oh weekend, you're back again... Hearts of Palm UK on "Demolisten" tonight. Julieta Venegas and Ceci Bastida at the Nokia. Stop by the Peterson Automotive Museum for the 11th Annual Fresh Faces in Fashion show hosted by Mandy Moore kicking L.A. Fashion Week. Hotel Cafe tour kicks off at the Hotel Cafe with Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, and others. Love Grenades and Pop Noir at The Echo. Imaad Wasif
Killdozer - Forward Music Fest I knew coming into this past weekend that Forward Music Festival (FMF) would be fun and a chance to return to the city of my college years, but I was also impressed at how easily that fun was had. It was one of the better weekends that Madison has ever had to offer me, and that's coming from a city that has two of the largest parties I have ever seen in Halloween and the Mifflin Street Block Party. Maybe it has more to do with my tendency to [...]
The result of AmRep poll are in...and the winner is...*drum roll... Melvins - with 9 votes. The rest of the band got the following amount of votes: Hammerhead - 4 votes Today Is The Day - 4 votes Cows - 3 votes Killdozer - 2 votes Unsane - 2 votes Cosmic Psychos - 1 vote Halo of Flies - 1 vote Surgery - 1 vote Mog [...]
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