
Disnei estreia hoje no Bar Ocidente em Porto Alegre Hoje rola a estreia de mais uma festa bacanérrima em Porto Alegre. Integrando o projeto das novas sextas do Bar Ocidente , a Disnei promete uma noite mágica ao som de muito electro, funk 70's, disco e pop sob o comando de Francis Bacon , Bruno Moura , Juli Baldi e Fran Piovesan . Chama a Tia Iara e vamos pra Disnei ! [...]

A Plus D - Gucci Gucci Girl Power [ mp3 ] Kreayshawn vs. Toni Basil vs. Le Tigre vs. The Ting Tings vs. The Trashwomen vs. The Go-Go's mother and daughter in the same song Kreayshawn is the daughter of the guitarist of The Trashwomen plus a lotta female RAWKIN'
Tonight, I start with some controversial, classy "arty" music and end with...well..the opposite of that. Brian Eno & David Byrne Qu'ran Okay, I'm going to tread lightly here. In 1981 Brian Eno and David Bryne released My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. It was their first album together, and was one of the very first albums to incorporate sampling, albeit in a very unusual way. The samples on My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts aren't taken from records of popular music like most samples [...]

"Rattle My Cage " By The Primitives. It's easy to look back on the 80's and remember it as the decade that taste and kindness forgot. And there was indeed much to rail against, whether it be the musical triumvirate of despair that dominated the charts in the shape of Stock Aitken and Waterman , the ludicrous new romantics, or witnessing the politics of compassion championed by the likes of Joe Strummer engulfed in a tsunami of greed and selfishness dressed up as empowerment by the [...]

Although I occasionally write holiday-themed pieces, a lot of special days pretty much pass with minimal notice on the ol' GMC. I guess I'm just enough of a contrarian to not follow what is a pretty universal practice in blogdom. Having said that, I thought maybe today I'd write a Halloween piece. I guess you could say I'm being a contrary contrarian. About thirty years ago, an ex-cheerleader turned dancer and choreographer rocketed to the top of the pop charts with a song that played to her strengths. It was a catchy (if annoying) piece named [...]
The raunchy pixie/ex-sitcom star and her band bring out their inner cheerleader.

The snowstorms hitting a wide swath of the country remind me of growing up and the presence of snow on the ground for long stretches of winter being a given. The snow, though, also offered the possibility of the Snow Day which was a near-miraculous event, offering a glimmer of hope in the dead of winter. You slept in and only trudged out into the cold on your terms for your reasons. As kids, it meant spending the day in someone's den or basement playing Atari. Once we got our licenses, it [...]
OK, so it's Friday afternoon in the great Pacific Northwest and I'm at work. If it weren't for the fact I'm supposed to hear back from a couple of clients about new contracts, I'd split this joint in a heartbeat. I. don't wanna work. I wanna bang on the drum all day.... So, I'm cleaning up some of my drafts...here's a radio mix from over a year ago. Who knows if it's any good. This week's radio mix: Santana - Hold On Isaac Hayes - Don't Let Go REO [...]

You know how sometimes, in old movies, the credits roll as the film opens? Well, I was watching Easy Rider (1969, my friends – it's officially an old movie now) the other day and as the opening credits went across the screen, I saw a familiar name: Toni Basil. I can't honestly say if I knew she was in the movie and had forgotten, or if it came as a bit of a surprise. While I know she is a choreographer of some renown, to me, Toni Basil is, was, and always will be the "Oh, Mickey, you're [...]

I've been a fan of foreign-language cover versions of popular songs ever since I was young and I heard Frank Sinatra's English-language cover "My Way." See what I did there! The original was performed in French by Claude Francois and was titled " Comme D'habitude ." Its lyrics dealt not with the Chairman of the Board's lack of regrets but rather with the sad life of a man who has a series of one-night stands but is otherwise lonely (or a failing love affair but is still lonely - the French is a little confusing on this point, apparently because [...]

With the recent announcement of the Academy Award nominations, we thought we'd take a look at songs that could have been written in tribute to some of this year's nominees. They weren't of course, but if they had, most of them would have better selections than the bulk of this year's original song nominees . Just how the Academy failed to nominate Springsteen's song from "The Wrestler" is beyond us. Sure, Dylan and Eminem have taken home Oscars, but so have Phil Collins and Three 6 Mafia. And just for the record, The [...]

Electrocute Genre: Electro / Punk / Psychedelic From: Los Angeles, California United States Coming on like the results of an unholy coupling of Toni Basil and Pop Levi covering Depeche Mode's first album with the attitude of a couple of Riot Grrrls, LA's Electrocute are pure bubblegum for [...]
Oh mickey you're so fine. This here album is a definite slice of the eighties. Toni Basil's debut album, Word of Mouth , came out in 1982 and pop-music history was made. The music video for "Mickey" was one of the most popular of the early MTV video days. Word of Mouth is an eighties New Wave classic slice of vinyl, featuring enough songs and musical contributions from Devo, that it could almost be considered a lost Devo album (no surprise that Basil and Devo's Jerry Casale were an item at the time). Actually she has had quite an [...]

Oh mickey you're so fine. This here album is a definite slice of the eighties. Toni Basil's debut album, Word of Mouth , came out in 1982 and pop-music history was made. The music video for "Mickey" was one of the most popular of the early MTV video days. Word of Mouth is an eighties New Wave classic slice of vinyl, featuring enough songs and musical contributions from Devo, that it could almost be considered a lost Devo album (no surprise that Basil and Devo's Jerry Casale were an item at the time). Actually she has had quite an [...]

Grace Jones Voices of Angels 80's edition observations. *Grace Jones scares the hell out of me. 2nd only to Rupaul. *Grammy-winning " Betty Davis Eyes " lyrics suggest that the song is about a drugged-out Ho (see lyrics). *" Voices Carry " is a guilty pleasure, I actually owned the cassette. Lyrics are almost as depressing as Suzanne Vega's " Luka" (see lyrics). *I don't remember " Girlie Girlie ", [...]
Quick and dirty, a half-hour of short (really short) and sweet little ditties. Santana - Hold On Isaac Hayes - Don't Let Go REO Speedwagon - Keep The Fire Burning Hall And Oates - Wait For Me Lyn Collins - Think About It Raydio - You Can't Change That Toni Basil - Mickey Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' Alan Parsons Project - Damned If I Do The Beatles - Nowhere Man K-Tel-A-Delic V
. This series is going to run for a few dozen instalments, the way my collection of lesser-known originals is going. I dread having to write an intro for all of them. Anyway, I think it's right that I should thank my and our great pal RH for plying me with so much great music. In this lot, we owe him thanks for songs by Delaney & Bonnie, Larry Weiss and Racey. Delaney & Bonnie - Groupie (
The Ting Tings Genre: Pop / Alternative / Melodramatic Popular Song From: Salford, Northwest United Kingdom Regular readers of the Devil's blog will know that I'm not a huge fan of the Ting Tings (Mandarin for band stand apparently). In fact I have in the past accused them of being overhyped chancers with a whiff of the artificial about them. So I'm probably not [...]
After a two-week hiatus, here's the new Mixtape For Hookers. I already wrote a description of this once, and then the power went out because it's all windy out. and the post didn't save because I hadn't given it a title yet. Let's hope that's not a sign of annoyances to come. This mix has a few things of note: one is that it's sort of deliriously happy, which is mostly in response to the fact that a) there's a frigging monsoon going on outside, and b) I have to work in a little while because [...]