The King Khan & BBQ Show's break-up last week in Daegu, South Korea was raucously entertaining, much like the garage-rockers' renowned shows. Jay Mattson provides his first-hand account of the chaotic scene at Bar Guess, where Arish Khan and Mark Sultan have appeared to part ways after over a decade of working together.
The result of the 2008 Irish Lisbon Treaty referendum On the first Friday in October, about half of the Irish electorate will go to the polls in an attempt to pass the Lisbon Treaty into Irish law, having already failed to do so in June 2008. On that previous occasion, a turnout of 53% of the electorate rejected the 28th Amendment to the Constitution by a margin of nearly seven per cent (53.4% against the Treaty as opposed to 46.6% in favour). The Lisbon Treaty is a replacement for the failed European Constitution that was rejected [...]
The Shadows Of Knight were a genre-straddling garage punk band from mid 60s Chicago. Taking their cue from The Yardbirds, The Who, The Stones, The etcs etcs blah blah blah, they are as well known on the northern soul scene for ' Shake ' as they are on the garage circuit for their feedback soaked version of Them's ' Gloria '. Lenny Kaye's Nuggets album included this , their version of Bo Diddley's 'Oh Yeah' . A garage stomper of a track, guitars drop in and out of the mix. The rhythm [...]
A mixed bag in the Jukebox this week. To be sure there's plenty of fuzz but also a cool bit of haze. Some names that might be familiar and others not so, but all with that scrappy bit of swagger that gives 60's garage its undeniable pull. [MP3] Shadows of Knight - Gospel Zone One of my favorite Shadows tracks that despite its name, has not a trace of gospel in it. On the contrary, its a hard shuffle with a nice mid section breakdown. Bring on the handclaps. Can't [...]
As suburban children we floated at night in swimming pools the temperature of blood; pools the color of Earth as seen from outer space. We would float and be naked - pretending to be embryos, pretending to be fetuses - all of us silent save for the hum of the pool filter. Our minds would be blank and our eyes closed as we floated in warm waters, the distinction between our bodies and our brains reduced to nothing, bathed in chlorine and lit by pure blue lights installed underneath diving boards. Sometimes we would join hands and form a [...]
A few more chunks of garage's past up for grabs on the Jukebox this week. Some of the names might not be as far out, but these are some sorely overlooked tracks from each and every band. [MP3] Mouse and the Traps - I'm A Man Mouse and co. could be pretty soft in places but when they fired their grit and vigor up just right they spit out some pretty sweet little pieces of garage r'n'b. They do just that in their take on this oft covered [...]
...then it's a Nugget. So says Lenny Kaye, as regular reader Ace K points out... "During my "career" at a law firm that was slowly eroding me, I would play hooky on extended lunch breaks at the great used music stores in the Boston/Cambridge/Somerville (Massachusetts, USA) area. One afternoon at the old, underground (literal) store Nuggets in Kenmore Square, Boston, Lenny Kaye strolled in. He signed the wall "If you dug it, then it's a nugget," chatted with the clerks, probably bought something, and left. I still kick myself for not busting my budget, buying their [...]
The music world lost a legend last week when Bo Diddley passed. Creater of the famous Diddley beat and player of the almost-as-famous square cigar-box guitar, he never got the respect of his peers Little Richard and Chuck Berry, but his music lives on. And if The Raconreurs did it on Conan , we can here, paying tribute to both the man and his beat. The Animals - The Story of Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley) One of those covers that does way more than the original, Eric Burdon [...]
May 17, 2008, 12:38pm
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Shadows of Knight - "Dark Side" [1966] Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Safe as Milk (Buddah 1967) YOU CAN ZIG! YOU CAN ZAG! Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - "Zig Zag Wanderer" Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - "Electricity"
The long and short of it is that I've made you a summer mix tape. I woke up all excited for a nice summer day of tennis and bbq and things like that. Then the sun went away, the grey came in and the rain started. There will be no tennis today. There will be no bbq today. And so I find myself with some extra time on my hands. And that's the story of the radnauseum summer mix tape.... mix mp3 collection... whatever. Plus... to make things [...]
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