Teenage Head - Teenage Head Canadian punks Teenage Head never achieved their deserved level of success outside of their home country. Though often seen as Canada's version of The Ramones, the band seemed to not be able to cross the border and bring the bounce stateside. The band actually formed after some local gigs by The New York Dolls and The Ramones and picked up their name from the classic Flamin' Groovies track. After an initial single they recorded this debut packed full of taught rockers that never feel as loose as their [...]
Dave Rave is a name that should be familiar to anyone who's been around the Toronto underground music scene, mostly for his work as the guitarist for the influential punk band Teenage Head. Rave has a solo album out now, titled Live With What You Know. He's giving away the album track "Anne-Marie" as a free download. Grab it here. Dave Rave will play Toronto as part of International Pop
For this week's In the Window , I head over to Queen West's Neurotica . Described by the owner, Scott, as "the anti-Chapters," this is a great place for hidden gems and general record bin searching. With vinyl, CD's and DVD's covering every surface of the store, you could spend hours poking away at the stock. This Queen West location has been around for almost 15 years, and is the third and longest standing iteration of the store. Scott tells me that he prefers to stick to the older vintage stuff because he believes [...]
Last summer a guy who usually runs a site called The Teenage Head (coolest name ever) called Eddie O'Keefe (still a pretty cool name in itself actually) got it together to actually make a short movie that features his loves: pretty girls, patty melts, rock 'n' roll, garage rock etc.
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I haven't posted very much over the last few months so here's a gift, southern ontario punk rock from the late 1970's. These bands all formed in '75/'76, the colonies/the poor northern cousins answer to DIY bands coming out the US and the UK. It seems that there was a seed in music in that time period that germinated at the same time in western speaking countries. Why?, ( in Canada it was CANCON ) who knows but the late 1970's was a very rich time for music and the [...]
A wide and varied collection of Canadian artists for you on Canada Day 2009, One Hundred and Forty Two years old... Happy Birthday Canada. Viletones - I hate You-Without You The Real McKenzies - Ceilidh Cancer Bats - Sorceress Die Mannequin - Do It Or Die Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown Neil Young - Tonights the Night [...]
1971 Kama Sutra 2031 A deep west coast groove for your music Monday. A rare time when Flamin' Groovies layed down a straight blues riff - super chunky and a villainous rock star lyric to boot: "Got a woman, she's my hopped up high school queen. She's my woman, she's a teenage love machine. " Every father's nightmare, really. Beware of rock bands. Off to work. Teenage Head Tagged: 1971, Flamin' Groovies, Mp3, Side A, Teenage Head
For my money, the Stones' brand of booze-soaked blues and roll was perfected not by a group of British lads, but rather by a kick-ass cult band out of San Francisco called the Flamin' Groovies.
Not sure what radio is like in other countries, but Canada has a rule that we call CanCon (Canadian Content) which has been around since 1971. To give you a quick overview of what Cancon is, presently Canadian radio stations must play at least 35% Canadian talent . (back when the CRTC implemented it in the 70's it was around 20%)They use a rule called MAPL , that breaks down how talent can be classified as Canadian. There have be fights left right and [...]
I'm feeling a little woozy from all the candy I ate last night and still have a ways to go getting the house in order before the wife gets home, so here's All Saints' Day linkblog post in lieu of actual content. The best political commentary of this election season. Satire is not only merely dead, it's really most sincerely dead. Dorian celebrates Dario Argento's works in all their uneven glory. Bully explains why ham should not be [...]
Losing Frankie the other day, made me want to listen to my Teenage Head albums again, so last night I setup the TTUSB and ripped their self titled first album "Teenage Head" Enjoy Teenage Head - Picture My Face { buy }
It is with great sadness that Gord Lewis of Teenage Head announces the tragic passing earlier today of Canadian icon Frank Kerr aka Frankie Venom of natural causes. Frank was the lead singer of ... View Original Article
It is with great sadness that Gord Lewis of Teenage Head announces the tragic passing earlier today of Canadian icon Frank Kerr aka Frankie Venom of natural causes. Frank was the lead singer of ... View Original Article
Some sad news coming out of Hamilton today. Frankie Venom, singer for the legendary Canadian punk band Teenage Head has died. R.I.P. Frankie Venom
Girls, Girls, Girls!!! One more time, in case we still have visitors. (Hopefully you haven't noticed our recent AWOLitude.) Here's what we've been up to. How 'bout youse? Teenage Head - Top Down mp3 The Girls - Transfer Station mp3 from Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No - Thanks to Pitchfork.The Ettes - Marathon mp3 - off the forthcoming release Look At Live Again Soon - Thanks to Alyssa Kleven at
"The Final Chapter!" from Amazing Spider-Man #33 (February 1966) is the appropriately-named conclusion to a three-part story arc that served as a pivotal moment in the title character's Lee-and-Ditko-produced Bildungsroman . In order to save his beloved Aunt May from a severe recurrence of chronic Pestilentia Melodramatica , Peter Parker suits up as Spider-Man and goes toe to toe with Doctor Octopus in order to retrieve the serum that could cure his ailing aunt. Things take a turn for the crappy, however, when Doc Ock's undersea lair collapses, trapping poor Spidey beneath a couple dozen tons [...]
Ain't that the way of things -- just when you think everything is going to be all right, the fates take a carefully aimed Parthian shot just to keep things interesting. If there is a higher power, I suspect that it's a really big fan of William Sydney Porter. Even if my present setback amounts to a inconvenient short-term prelude to better days, I'm having a hard time looking past looking past the excruciating now...mainly because it's difficult to see the grand horizon when one is bent over the bathroom sink in a state of intense pain. [...]
Before I wrote these words you're reading I had written a bunch of other words. I was trying to articulate the connection I find between Teenage Head 's "Bonerack" and Roky Erickson 's "Starry Eyes". The first is full of dumb sex, self-destruction and, ultimately, permanent brain damage (courtesy of the gun-wielding protagonist) and the second is a love song that I've always interpreted as the singer longing for his own brain back. So maybe that's the connection. Listen for yourself. Mp3s: Teenage Head-Bonerack [...]
Today in Music History: In 1985, UK producer and keyboard player Paul Hardcastle was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with '19'. The title referred to the average age of American soldiers in the Vietnam war. The Island hosts a phenomenon that I have never seen anywhere else. I call them Jumpers . Not the kind that go splat off a high rise, these jumpers start out innocently enough as pedestrians. Maybe it's something about walking that turns them into idiots, or maybe it's the breeze [...]
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