There are plenty of Goth nights in San Francisco but unless you are way into industrial, you are probably going to be a little bummed out (no pun intended). Luckily Club Shutter hosts the best dark wave night this side of San Diego and they usually have it pretty well covered. Sure they throw in The Smiths every now and then, but a good dance party always beats playing by the rules and when you are cataloging all the best goth bands of the 802s you are bound to come across some crossover (*see the bonus section [...]
To play catch up from last week's missed mix, I'm giving you two once again. They're timely with their themes, the first being all German artists and the second being songs about war. In fact, in many ways these two themes are inextricably linked. As everyone celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, it inevitably brings Berlin's extraordinary history, along with Germany's more generally, back into the spotlight. And Cold War is war after all. I've written about how much I love Berlin here before, and it still remains one of my top cities [...]
Outono Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass, 'Tis Autumn. Françoise Hardy, Autumn Rendez-vous. Hugh Hopper and Richard Sinclair, Long Lingers Autumn Time. The Moody Blues, Forever Autumn. Gene Autry, When Golden Leaves Are Falling. Chet Atkins, The Red Leaves of Autumn. Yves Montand, Les Feuilles Mortes. Jerry Lee Lewis, Autumn Leaves. Ahmad Jamal Trio, Autumn Leaves. Lena Horne, Autumn in New York.
In 1954, faced with the unstoppable tag-team of child psychologist Frederick Wertham and Tennessee senator C. Estes "Yes, I know what my middle name rhymes with" Kefauver, the comic book industry established the Comics Code Authority. Intended to preempt any possible outside action against the industry, the CCA acted as an inside, though (arguably) independent arbiter of "acceptable" comics content. Under the CCA's new rules, the burgeoning crime and horror genres were especially singled out for their graphic and lurid content, which effectively killed the the former genre and reduced the latter to a pale shell of what [...]
Nathan Nothin here... I've been barricaded in the vinyl room for four days now. I just now found out that it's Sunday night. So my Saturday Mix is a slight misnomer, well sue me. The hurricane curtains block out all light, all sound louder than my stereo. Four days of nothing but vinyl... What I have convinced myself that I believe that I remember that I heard, random pockets of memory left un-eroded by the torrential squall of drugs & alcohol, the following soundtrack from my latest lost weekend. Tracks: Baby's on Fire - Brian Eno [...]
Continuing the series of John Peel Sessions covering the first 54 12" Vinyl releases on Strange Fruit Records. (SFPS001 - SFPS-54). SFPS013 - Joy Division Heres a bit about the early years of the band, courtesy of myspace.com/joydivision 1976 Inspired by a Sex Pistols gig at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall on July 20, 1976, Bernard Sumner (also credited as "Bernard Dicken", "Bernard Albrecht" and "Bernard Albrecht-Dicken") and Peter Hook formed a band with friend Terry Mason. Sumner bought a guitar, Hook [...]
Unpiano
Condemned to Rock 'N Roll
Locust St.
Armagideon Time
Nothin' Sez Somethin'
The Red Baron Chronicles
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Mr Fogg - Eleven
Crocodiles - Endless Flowers
Bison - Quill
