Video: Mott The Hoople - The Golden Age Of Rock 'N' Roll [totp2]

I recently watched a documentary called Kill Your Idols , a horribly misguided overview of the early No Wave scene and bands of the early aughts who were influenced by that pioneering scene of yore. In the doc (which I do not at all recommend - it made everyone involved look like petty shits), Swans mastermind Michael Gira talked about "how things changed" for underground music when the record companies and the ad agencies figured out how to sell our culture back to us. That idea is nothing new, and some argue that the age [...]

We're gonna guess that you, like us, didn't blow a proverbial load when you heard Kings Of Leon were going to open tonight's Features show at Exit/In. And we're also gonna venture that you didn't... Continue reading "Mesh Shirt Madness: Majestico Drop Well-Ventilated Single Just in Time for Their Star Turn, Mott the Hoople Are Still Awesome" >

The golden age of Mott the Hoople was short-lived (three studio albums) and the band's name was largely dragged through the mud by the post-Ian Hunter era, but despite any reasonable reservations I probably should have, an item on the band's getting back together is about as big as non-Coachella-related news gets for me. I'm not sure how glam rock works exactly for those pushing 70, but we'll find out together in October, when the band hits the Hammersmith Apollo in London. All I ask is this: Can we agree right now to not attribute the reunion to [...]