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 [...]
DISTRO HAS BEGUN! SIDE A LACO$TE by Daiana Feuer HANNI EL KHATIB by Lainna Fader DEATH by Kristina Benson GANG OF FOUR by Lainna Fader TEEBS by Kristina Benson OFF! by Chris Ziegler TOM TOM CLUB by Daiana Feuer FORT KING by Dan Collins LUIS & THE WILDFIRES by Lainna Fader MY DRY WET MESS by Lainna Fader BEST COAST by Dan Collins WANDA JACKSON by Daiana Feuer WHITE FENCE by Daniel Clodfelter [...]
DISTRO HAS BEGUN! SIDE A LACO$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 [...]
Cherie Currie's Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway , the book on which the recently-released The Runaways movie is based, is one of the most depressingly sordid memoirs I've encountered since surreptitiously reading Go Ask Alice in the eighth grade. Reading more like torture porn than a new addition to the prosopography of a famous all-girl rock 'n' roll band, the book consists primarily of detached and detailed recitals of traumas that include parental abandonment, rape at the age of 14, constant verbal abuse from manager Kim Fowley, a descent into drug addiction, battles with [...]
kim fowley - "motorboat" (download) Kim Fowley is best known for being the man who conceived and created The Runaways , but he also had a cult following of his own, due to a number of bubblegum/glam (bubbleglam?) singles in the 602s. He is still, to this day, a very eccentric man. This is from his 1978 release Living in the Streets. website buy
Oh, folks. Have I got a tale for you. As a matter of fact, now that I'm thinking about it, I don't have a tale for you. Because words cannot accurately render how incredible last night's screening of The Room was. It was without a doubt the greatest movie-watching experience of my life. Setting aside the beers at Golden State, the beers at Surly Goat, the bottle of wine consumed while waiting in line, or the bottle of Jack Daniels consumed in the movie theater, I haven't laughed that hard in God knows how long. If [...]
The only way to follow up a night in which you stumble into bed at 3:30 in the morning is to stumble into bed at 4:30 in the morning. It's been a long weekend, folks, and all the over-the-counter pseudoephedrine in the world couldn't keep me from crashing before my work-day ended. I was a busy bee, productive as all hell until about 90 minutes before my shift ended. Then I totally crashed and couldn't function any more. I was so anxious to get out and go home that I left without my computer. Good thing Nicci doesn't [...]
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From the venerable FM Shades : "Rare release by the legendary Kim Fowley under the guis of a non-existent son. Pretty amazing and out there material on this release. Starts off with a few great rockers then lots of Synthesizer stuff with his rock scene L.A. poetry. I can't find any info on this record but found it last year and digitized the LP. No Reissue in sight as far as I know. Kim Fowley if you don't know is a legendary and eccentric producer from L.A. who's written songs for KISS, pretty much formed [...]
Number-one hits get all the glory, but what about the runners-up, the second-best, the popular-but-not-quite-popular- enough? You might be surprised what classic singles stalled at #2, and what forgotten yesterhits kept them from the top. Cover Me salutes the silver medalists as a reminder to the kids: winning isn't everything. As long as you come in second. Sebastian Cabot – Like a
Kim Fowley - Animal God of the Streets Plenty of recent praise has fallen upon Fowley what with his most famous product getting a Hollywood makeover but despite his illustrious producing career its easy to forget that the man actually recorded a few gems himself. Say what you will about his self aggrandizing, the man did have a way with song and aside from the classic International Heroes this is best illustrated on the album Animal God of the Streets . Comprised of tracks written and recorded in New Zealand [...]
The Runaways is less of a juicy story than it is an after-school special
I saw The Runaways this weekend. (Yes, I'm aware they weren't a metal band, but whatever.) For roughly half the movie, director Floria Sigismondi manages to steer clear of all the typical rock biopic clichés and make a movie that's insightful and fun and interesting; then it devolves into a pretty typical anti-drug PSA and [...]
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Tall, flamboyant of dress, profane as James Joyce and possessed of a legend that rolls out before him like the fog at Dracula's feet, Fowley is a man for whom literally everybody in the L.A. scene has a pre-set opinion. This interview by Ron Garmon.
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