So what you want to know is: Can we start hating The Horrors (myspace), yet? Perhaps the reason I finally got to see The Thermals is that I wasn’t actually going to see them. I’ve wanted to viddy The Horrors ever since Ultragrr

It must be that time of the month again, because I’m feeling some Cramps coming on… (Yes, yes, that was a terrible joke. Deal with it.) “ TV Set ,†from 1980’s Songs the Lord Taught Us , is a rip-snortin’ track celebrating love, household appliances, and acts of unspeakable violence. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Lux Interior is a very terrifying individual, as this clip from Urgh! A Music War clearly illustrates. I have recurring nightmares about being suffocated by [...]

Halloween is right around the corner. Enjoy this mix. Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper I Was A Teenager Werewolf - The Cramps Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo Season Of The Witch - Donovan I Walked With A Zombie - REM Scary Monsters - David Bowie [...]
It's punkypowerpop time. What could be better then some killer stuff from Irealand. And behind the engineer nobs we find no other then the druid Clive Culbertson if that's not a... Punk | Powerpop | Mod | Hard Core
I went a little overboard on this one, kids. Fourteen songs! But that's nothing, really; when I was first making up the playlist, there were forty! In the singing-in-front-of-my-mirror category: Cabaret - Don't Tell Mama . I am Sally Bowles when I sing this song. Not only do I belt it out in front of my mirror when no one's watching or listening; I have also been known to sing it at karaoke. It's kind of impossible to listen to this song without wanting to buy yourself a pair [...]
Since this is about two weeks overdue I'm not really going to go into depth - because I can't remember the details. So anyway The Cramps played the Labor Day Motherfucker party at Avalon. The place was super packed and it was damn near impossible to find a comfortable spot. I was upstairs when they started their set so I headed downstairs. On the way down the steps I got stuck. There were people

A brief appearance tonight, Dear Friends, but I am indeed back. Thank you so much for the kind comments on my last post- I will answer once I get back in the saddle. And though T did reveal the gist of the secret in his scribing below, I will fill in more details as soon as I can - things are hectic. But let me break radio silence by drawing your attention to the latest Contrast Podcast . This week the theme was, quite simply, "What." The sole criterion for submission was that the song had to [...]
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Since I was lil tyke, the genre of choice that's defined my musical taste has progressed from Barney & Company to ghetto music to classical then jazz and finally rock - yeah it's sort of messed up, especially with that Barney to ghetto music jump. The easiest transition to make was jazz to rock. Don't ask me how, but the likes of Nina Simone transmogrified into acts such as The Clash practically overnight. Now the French must know about this semi-freakish genre jump, because somewhere, sometime ago, Nouvelle Vague was born. The idea was simple, take some classic [...]
the 1st 2 are a little bit different. ever since i first heard jerry lee lewis do it, ive been a sucker for a singer name dropping their own name in a song. the cramps - cornfed dames 'Lux means bux, remember the name!' *swoon* doesnt that voice just make panties FALL off!?!?! the white stripes - lord, send me an angel 'new way of loving swear to god it must be best these [...]
This is my daily routine: come home from work, embark myself in my bedroom studio and play until my fingers bleed. It gets really hot in there as well as I have to have all windows and doors closed. So today I had to cut off a pair of nylon stockings, make little holes for my fingers and use it as a glove on my left hand because my palm was so damp and I couldn´t change the chords fast enough and kept getting stuck. Not very stylish I tell you, but it worked! Anyway, I [...]
The RSJ podcast has moved to its own little section of the internet. It has its own page over at Podomatic. I’ve decided to save myself bandwidth and just set up that Podomatic page for my podcast. I’ll still post to it over here, but if you have iTunes or ...
The History Lesson is a weekly feature here on Out the Other, offering one historical tidbit for every day of the upcoming week, paired with a song that usually has nothing to do with history. Check out last week here , and all previous weeks here . July 2, 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanish over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator. Peter Adams - " The Disappeared " [...]
Back at work after a short vacation, and in no shape to wax euphoric. No, today we dwell on the flip side of YouTube's pleasure chest, into the clips that once tracked down, were revealed as pretty lousy. Now, these aren't the absolute worst things I could find. With a mindset of seeking out history's rock bottom, I could have found vids to inspire Oedipal eye-gouging, surely. Just a set of anticipated footage, that once seated with laptop on lap top, left me surprisingly unsatisfied. Let's spread the bad cheer, shall we? [...]