Artist: Lounge Lizards

Accomplished musical alchemist Billy Martin has taken an opportunity away from Medeski Martin and Wood to rekindle an idea he had years ago - combining ragtime and funk with trumpeter Steven Bernstein. The two met while associated with John Lurie's Lounge Lizards years ago, but the fates never allowed their transfixing new sound idea to take hold. Until now. Combining [...]

Accomplished musical alchemist Billy Martin has taken an opportunity away from Medeski Martin and Wood to rekindle an idea he had years ago - combining ragtime and funk with trumpeter Steven Bernstein. The two met while associated with John Lurie's Lounge Lizards years ago, but the fates never allowed their transfixing new sound idea to take hold. Until now. Combining [...]

This week's edition of Nightclubbing features long time Stupefaction faves, The Lounge Lizards! Sit back and enjoy... "...they looked like they sounded: natty, a bit louche and darkly captivating. You just wanted to light up a cigarette and enjoy. Founded by saxophonist John Lurie and his brother, pianist Evan Lurie, the band roster read like a Who’s Who of downtown: new music royalty, with more than 35 members [...]

Welcome to the first of which I hope is many in a new series I'm calling Stupefied. I'll be asking some of the more interesting & tasteful folks I know for their top 20 tunes, and I'm kicking things off with Mr. John Lurie . He said to me, Fuck you - I get 21 tracks." Too bad for him one of them was "A Day In The Life" by the Beatles, and they aren't on Spotify. 01. Mosolov - Iron Foundry 02. Astor [...]

A feature film of a concert given at the Quartier Latin Club in Berlin, Germany, on March 28-31, 1991 with John Lurie, Steven Bernstein, Michael Blake, Oren Bloedow, Bryan Carrott, Billy Martin, Michele Navazio, Jane Scarpantoni, and Calvin Weston. Visit www.strangeandbeautiful.com .

John Lurie & Lounge Lizards - Live in Berlin 1991 Full concert by the iconic NY downtown jazz troupe Lounge Lizards. Live at the Quartier Latin Club in Berlin, Germany on March 28-31, 1991. Featuring the talents of Elysian Fields founder Oren Bloedow, and downtown’s Steve Bernstein among others.

Originally posted 29 January 2007 BIG HEART FAT HOUSE The Lounge Lizards Big Heart - Live in Tokyo Island : 1986 John Lurie, alto sax; Roy Nathanson, tenor sax; Curtis Fowlkes, trombone; Marc Ribot, guitar; Evan Lurie, piano; Erik Sanko, bass; Dougie Bowne, drums; E. J. Rodriguez, percussion. The Lounge Lizards  are a little hard to classify. Initially saddled with the self-proclaimed "fake jazz" [...]

• Lounge Lizards - Big Heart
• Lounge Lizards - Fat House

It's the height of summer and it's been nut-sweatin' hot outside. That means it's time to pack up my tackle boxes and go on my yearly backwoods fishing expedition. I'm always amazed at the sheer amount of fishing stuff I've amassed over the years: fly-tying material, exotic European glues, special lures, hooks, leaders. I'd really wanted to buy a new [...]

Pulled out some Lounge Lizards albums recently, and was happily smacked upside the head by a spunkiness that has aged very well. Then I put on their last album, which on the one hand is animated by a lovely sound palette and a gaggle of eager/excellent musicians, but now takes on kind of a tragic hue in light of John Lurie's subsequent troubles . Still, these sprightly tones are well worth enjoying, especially when paired with Lurie's album cover painting, which seems appropriate for nearly every moment of my day. [...]

• The Lounge Lizards - Queen Of All Ears

Friend of the blog, John Lurie, was recently interviewed by PunkDaddy.com. Read it here . And if you're so inclined, don't forget about my own interview with Mr. Lurie from way back in 2006 - find the link here . John Lurie music & art is always available at his website . Deer and Stop Light by John Lurie

From Lounge Lizards’ eponymous debut.  The roster includes John Lurie, Evan Lurie and Arto Lindsay among others. 

Purling Hiss - The Hoodoo from Philadelphia Philms on Vimeo . When I interviewed Purling Hiss over the summer, one of the points that all three members of the in-the-red garage power trio agreed upon was that the band was their main musical priority and that they were dedicated to upping their profile. That point is borne out by a currently in-progress European jaunt and an extensive US tour (with The War on Drugs) they're launching as soon as they return. Check the clip above, which features the full band lineup jamming [...]

John Lurie art - prints & paintings at the Varga Gallery , Woodstock NY thru Oct. 31, 2011

The Varga Gallery in Woodstock NY will be hosting a John Lurie paintings & prints show from Sept. 24 through October 31. If you're in the Catskills pay 'em a visit. For more on Lurie's art, click here .

Purling Hiss’s Lounge Lizards combines shredding guitar with rough production for tracks that sound like they’ve taken a page out of old school punk. Lounge Lizards is grubby and short- only six songs on the entire album- and sounds like a juke box play. It’s got classic riffs and some doo-wop vocals backing up Mike Polizee’s gritty, Richard Hell-esque voice. The songs aren’t too fast-paced, but it’s a high-energy album. If punk production was mixed with classic rock and roll riffs and some vocal lessons from Wu Lyf, the result would be Lounge Lizards. The album is unwashed [...]

Consciousness-raising , neo-noir oddball David Lynch has opened a nightclub in Paris called Silencio. The club is inspired by the eponymous venue from “Mulholland Drive,” and sports Buddhist cocktail bars, a dream forest and a library, among other bizarre curios. Refusing to play to type, it doesn't feature fuming canines or anthropomorphized industrial wastelands. The maestro reportedly micromanaged everything, from the level of sodium in the bar snacks, to the style of the furniture, designed to compel sitters to be alert and open to the unknown. "Silencio is something [...]

Purling Hiss — Been Teased To listen to Purling Hiss ’ Lounge Lizards is to come face to face with the spirit of Rock, only to have him spit on your shoes and dump his beer on your head. This is a soundtrack to bar fights and broken noses, the sort of music you hear echoing from smashed-up jukeboxes and pick-up trucks barreling through the desert in reckless abandon. If you’re willing to take the ride, “Been [...]

Philadelphia's Purling Hiss do snarling guitar rock so well that they almost seem like a concept project about shredding. Infectious as they can be, the song structures on their first two LPs were minimal point of hard rock caricature, and always seemed more of a frame for Mike Polizze's unchained, stream-of-consciousness guitar acrobatics than focal points in themselves. "Voices" a track from the band's new six-track EP on Mexican Summer , sees the frontman wielding his axe in more of an ornamental spirit, searing bluesy curlicues above a hulking power chord progression and some lackadaisically delivered lyrics [...]

MP3: Purling Hiss - The Hoodoo Hey dudes, check out this new video for "The Hoodoo", off the much anticipated " Lounge Lizards " 12 inch by Purling Hiss . Hope my copy ships soon - the ball is in your court, Mexican Summer !

Purling Hiss has a new six-song EP due out on Mexican Summer on June 14th called Lounge Lizards . The band performs at Hong King Garden on Saturday, June 18. You can download "The Hoodoo" below. The band also contributed a song, the crushing "Almost Washed My Hair" to our new Key Studio Sessions Compilation (which you can download here) . The original studio session that they recorded back in March can be downloaded here . The Hoodoo by Purling Hiss from Lounge Lizards [...]

• Purling Hiss - The Hoodoo