This is priceless. Kim Fowley was one of the sleaziest figures ever to be associated with the '60s psychedelia scene, and this song is the perfect illustration of that. Listen to the hideous insincerity as he introduces it with the words "Summertime's here kiddies, and it's time to take a trip." Culturally, we're a lot more savvy regarding Fowley's particular brand of creepy opportunism than we were back then. I doubt he could get away with that sort of behaviour these days without being labelled a nonce. Anyway, here he is positioning himself as your [...]
luke mcgarry Decades before rich Westsiders started calling Silver Lake “East L.A.,” the real East L.A. was far hipper than an Elliott Smith mural would suggest, and had far more dedicated rock fans, too. Brown-skinned kids in Beatle boots, white-skinned kids in Nehru jackets, and mod-a-go-go girls and boys of all shapes and sizes under age eighteen went apeshit on Whittier Blvd each weekend, set loose on a rhythm-driven rampage. The 60s in East L.A. were a time when teens would pack themselves in by the hundreds and thousands into ballrooms and armories to [...]
El gran sello de I'm a Cliché nos trae una de las sorpresas de la temporada, una brillante sorpresa, pasado y presente, la colaboración del genio de Kim Fowley con el dúo francés de Bot'Ox , hablar de Kim Fowley, es hablar de la historia de la música, de un genio creativo, nacido en 1939, ha sido el manager de The Runaways, empresario, músico, cineasta, actor, artista... y nombre de culto de la historia de la música con su personal visión con sus [...]
Kim Fowley, so the story goes, was a fraud. He was a huckster, a charlatan, an opportunist. In under a decade he went from Alley Oop and Nut Rocker , through psychedelia, and straight into the proto glam racket of his 1968 album Outrageous . If you listen carefully, you can even convince yourself that you can hear the sincerity. You'd be kidding yourself; Fowley's masterful pastiches of '60s counterculture were only ever imitations of life. Looking at things from the outside in, it's just another bloody novelty record. [...]
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Ah, sweet unheralded psych pop magic. Bless the people at Rhino for their continued curatorial prowess. Pulled out this adjunct to the Nuggets series and was charmed anew by nearly every track. I couldn't share just one. I don't know what I like more about this first song — the easy grooviness or the fact that it came from a has-been rockabilly guy reconstructed for the psychedelic era. At this distance, quality wins over authenticity, and who really cares if this Baker Knight was cynically cashing in or having [...]
Kim Fowley - Outrageous Kim Fowley is nothing if not a notorious figure of the 60's and 70's rock scene. Anyone who can connect dots between Zappa, The Runaways and The Soft Machine deserves to be recognized and though his solo records never received the acclaim of those he penned songs for (The Byrds, Beach Boys, Them, Cat Stevens) his 1970 album Outrageous is a ramshackle classic that's deservingly back on vinyl. The album, which sees Fowley backed by various members of Steppenwolf, is a punk-blues ripper that [...]
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INTERNATIONAL HEROESKIM FOWLEY (EUA)Edição original: CapitolProdutor(es): Jeffrey Cheendiscogs allmusic Ajudou um número quase infindável de artistas, enquanto produtor, compositor de canções, manager, editor e tudo o mais, tanto na América como em Inglaterra. O rock'n'roll nunca teria sido como foi se não fosse esta personagem frequentemente esquecida, que aos 72 anos ainda continua por aí a
kim zuniga The ennui of off-season cheerleading practice, lifeguarding to save up for a longboard, scheming to elope to Tijuana with my summer camp sweetheart: I can just recall July at sixteen. Neverever have made themselves strangely at home in that moment. While debut Angelic Swells (Slumberland, 2010) was rife with school year angst, the band’s new EP evokes the agony and ecstasy of summer vacation. But in the tradition of fellow Angelenos Suburban Lawns, Neverever’s kitsch is freed from nostalgia by the grotesque realities of adolescence. [...]
Have a listen to "Cool Vapors" from south Florida rockers Jacuzzi Boys' forthcoming sophomore LP Glazin' , out August 30th on Hardly Art . A preorder is now available for the first 300 LP orders, which will come stuffed with a bonus one-sided 7" of the Boys doing a Kim Fowley cover. The album is a follow up to their 2009 release No Seasons . Have a listen and snag "Cool Vapors" below and have a peek at the tracklisting for Glazin' after [...]
The old masters are still cooking and making hot roots music for the summer of 2011.
Filed under: Exclusive , Northern Exposure Courtesy of the Details Northern Exposure is Spinner's MP3 column highlighting the best in new Canadian music. This week we feature some of the finest acts at Toronto's North by Northeast festival (June 13-19). Most indie bands would kill for the kind of eyebrow-raising backstory Winnipeg quartet the Details boast in their bio -- turns out the [...]
Download: Moon Duo "Mazes" (from Mazes out now on Sacred Bones) Wooden Shjips guitarist and singer Ripley Johnson assembled Moon Duo (with keyboardist Sanae Yanada and samples pried from a bunch of primitive drum machines) to channel even more powerful drones and tones from the forbidden zone of rock ‘n’ roll. Moon Duo will play the Echo on Tuesday. This interview by Chris Ziegler. Is the ‘J’ in ‘Wooden Shjips’ from a typo on the [...]
themegoman Download: Hunx and His Punx "Lovers Lane" (from Too Young To Be In Love out now on Hardly Art) Hunx blew out of the desert right into the hearts of millions of teenagers everywhere, hyphenating years of admirably trashy Rip Off-style rock ‘n’ roll with his world-famous stint as one of the four heads of Gravy Train!!!! His new record on Hardly Art is all Kim Fowley-cum-Phil Spector teenage tragedy rock and it [...]
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DISTRO HAS BEGUN! SIDE A LACO$TE by Daiana Feuer HANNI EL KHATIB by Lainna Fader DEATH by Kristina Benson GANG OF FOUR by Lainna Fader TEEBS by Kristina Benson OFF! by Chris Ziegler TOM TOM CLUB by Daiana Feuer FORT KING by Dan Collins LUIS & THE WILDFIRES by Lainna Fader MY DRY WET MESS by Lainna Fader BEST COAST by Dan Collins WANDA JACKSON by Daiana Feuer WHITE FENCE by Daniel Clodfelter [...]
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