> A LIFE ONCE LOST vocalist Bob Meadows has launched a side-project called NO PEOPLE. The band is rounded out by Nate Localio (guitar) and Colby Chase (drums) of avant-metal band Jekylnhyde along with Philadelphia musicians Will Schaeffer (guitar) and Josh Gowton (bass) with a sound that can be compared to MESHUGGAH and DILLIGNER ESCAPE [...]
The Monks/Roland Alphonso - Rock Me/Hip Hug Her label: Sir JJ jaar: 2007 kant a: The Monks - Rock Me kant b: Roland Alphonso - Hip Hug Her "The Champ" (uweetwel: "Champ! Tutuudu Tutuudu Tu Tu Du Du Tu") is veruit het bekendste nummer van The Mohawks , maar deze schuiver "Rock Me" mag er ook wezen, m'neer, ook al istie dan uitgebracht onder de naam The Monks. Ook gebruikt door Phyllis Dilon in [...]
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I came across this video on the recommendation of a friend of a friend , and as quirky as it seems when you first click play, there's an urgency and an animal primacy to the music that belies the sweaters and the bobby socks of 1965. I had never heard of The Monks before this video started rolling; a google search of the blogs and sites I read turned up one reference on Pitchfork , but P-fork writes about a lot of stuff that flies right over my [...]
Be it a well-timed reissue, a key appearance in a film, a new music documentary, or just general luck in the musical zeitgeist, classic gems from the radio era continue to be rediscovered and garner new relevance today. In lieu of a best reissues of 2007 list, we've scoured a host of popular music blogs, mostly using The Hype Machine and elbo.ws , to pin down many of this year's most resurgent tracks. It's always exciting when one of these gems finds an overdue reappraisal, proving its time-worn strength and offering hope that a perfect [...]
Am Sonntag, den 16. Dezember (21:15 Uhr) strahlt 3sat die Dokumentation "The Transatlantic Feedback" aus. Im Mittelpunkt des feinen Filmchens steht die Geschichte der Beat-Kappelle The Monks. Die Band bestand aus fünf in West-Deutschland G.I.s, die sich nach ihrer Entlassung aus der Army schicke Tonsur-Frisuren zulegten und sich ausschließlich in Schwarz gewandeten. Statt einer Rhythmus-Gitarre setzte man auf ein Banjo, für dass es damals natürlich keine adequaten Verstärker gab: Also wurden flugs zwei Mikrofone in das Banjo eingebaut. Nebenher erfanden die Monks überigens Punk, behauptet zumindest Jello Biafra, einer ihrer größten Fans. Kürzlich erschien ein Tribute-Sampler, [...]
Red Pony Clock - "Don't Forget Who Your Friends Are" Red Pony Clock have returned after a couple years away (when they released one of 2005's best albums ), and they've grown up a little bit. David Barclay is in the band now, which is proof that they're very aware of what's good for them. They've shed their lo-fi fuzziness for undersea xylophones and warm brass bursts. The self-loathing is still rampant, even moreso, on this album. Sometimes lyricist Gabe Saucedo gets me a little worried about him. Seriously, Gabe, [...]
MES really loves The Monks and who can blame him? A truly nuts bunch. This cover is yet another inspired interpretation of the already warped original. The melody is forsaken for a series of weird chants - 'lil lil loo hoo', ''wah wah wow wow' and the like, along with various snippets of speech and the shouts of 'shut up, don't cry' to create a joyful noise.
Thanks to our friend Bill for telling me about The Monks , a band of 5 American GIs stationed in Germany during the mid-'60s, whose short-lived career resulted in some of the weirdest recordings ever and a bunch of confused German kids. They've been called "the first free-floating building in the history of rock 'n' roll," and while it'd be obvious to say that a band this innovative and weird was ahead of their time, it's almost unfathomable to me that these guys existed in 1966. mp3: [...]
SIDE A 1. Something To Say - The Action 2. Snowblind - Judy Henske & Jerry Yester 3. Morning Sunshine - The Idle Race 4. Love Came Tumblin' Down - The Monks 5. Little Baby - The Blue Rondos (Joe Meek) 6. The World Ain't Round, It's Square - The Savages 7. White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground 8. Gather 'Round - Love 9. [...]
Boy did I get drunk last night. Bear Republic Big Bear Black Stout, you are no longer my friend, no matter how deliciously alcoholic you might be. There was a period of time when I found myself "falling asleep" (blacking out?) on a pillow-covered floor for one or two minutes at a time. I don't remember stretches of conversation that occurred between myself and the person with whom I was hanging out, but I can always pretend my cognitions were fascinating and insightful. Now here's the music! RULES for uninitiated noobs : With 100MB of webspace, [...]
The open road, the open sky It was time again for another road trip up to Northern California (“affectionately” dubbed NorCal). Work was slow, I felt a comfortably confident about my place in class, my legs were itching to see the highway and I had lots of good music and I need even more good music. I headed to Santa Rosa and Berkeley this time around to visit some close friends. There are some great music and movie stories there too. However on the way up I had to stop at Best Buy (there are none [...]
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Although the Monks only released one album in 1966, over the years they have become one of the most influential 60's groups to emerge. The Fall have learned a lot from them (also, they have overed their songs numerous times), and the Silver Monk Time tribute album features groups such as Mouse From Mars, The Raincoats, Jason Forrest, Faust and others. Among the many garage bands of their time, they also belonged to the most original ones. Just listen to those raw, repetative riffs. Three tracks off Black Monk Time. [...]
The more I listen to forgotten garage rock bands, the more I see their impact. These were the kind of bands that didn't really chart but taught their local scenes what rock n' roll was really all about with their ferocity. These are the bands that make the coming of punk seem completely natural. Many bands are often given a lot of credit for influencing punk even though their releases were relatively obscure at the time they came out.. While they may not have directly influenced the bands that would become the face of punk rock, they were certainly [...]
The clusterfuck of music continues. . . "We Dance" "We Dance (Alt. Mix)" by PAVEMENT: The deluxe 2CD rerelease of Pavement's third album, Wowee Zowee , hit the streets a few weeks ago. I almost ordered a copy until I scanned over the tracklisting and realized that I, in some format or another, own almost all of the material. Thank god for eMusic.com, where I'd previously bought most of the b-sides from the likes of the Pacific Trim EP. It was just [...]
We had the weekend to let Pitchfork's Greatest 200 Songs of the 1960's list sink in. Now, friends, is the time for the nitpicking to begin in earnest. For the most part I think it was a pretty good effort by the 'forkers. There were clearly great pains taken to expand the usual Rolling Stone magazine conventional wisdom, include underrespected genres, and oust some terrible Doors songs. Any attempt to assign rank and number to a decade's worth of music is going to be imcomplete, however. In calling to light some material that [...]
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