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I’m Not A Young Man Anymore
December 18th, 2009
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The Psychedelic Sounds Of
November 22nd, 2009
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The 13th Floor Elevators were probably one of the first bands to describe their music as “psychedelic”. Then again, they did have an electric jug player to back it up.
No New York
November 17th, 2009
Poised on the cusp of no wave: Richard Hell and James Chance, by Julia Gorton. James Chance was founder/mad frontman of Flaming Youth, The Contortions, James White & The Blacks and Pill Factory. Richard Hell is a punk musician, poet and writer, best known for penning “Blank Generation”.
“Beneath the scowls of derision, the antagonism and acrimony, and the nearly unbearable shrillness that was our soundtrack, we were howling with delight, laughing like lunatics in the madhouse that was New York City, thrilled to be rubbing up against the freaks and other outcasts, who somehow, for some unknowable reason, had all decided to run to land’s end and all at once scream their bloody heads off.”
- Lydia Lunch
The Roxy Machine
November 8th, 2009
Antony Price’s sketches for Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure (Amanda Lear) and Siren (Jerry Hall).
Antony’s vision of glam was responsible for styling and art directing Roxy Music’s iconic LP sleeves, which helped define the band’s retro/futuristic pop aesthetic, while creating some pretty enduring images in its “Roxy girls”. He and Bryan Ferry were some of the first few people to see the possibilities of a synergy between fashion and music.
Femme Fatale
October 31st, 2009
“Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else’s Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico’s was real.”
- Peter Murphy, Bauhaus
Performance
October 25th, 2009
Performance, masterminded by Donald Cammell and starring Mick Jagger, James Fox and Anita Pallenberg in a heady psychosexual brew of mixed identities, narcotics, sex, sadism, gangsters and reclusive rock stars. The film was infamous not just for its risque content, but for the intense psychic drama that the cast weathered. Some left the film with drug habits and psychological scars, while some, like Mick Jagger, emerged mostly unscathed. Marianne Faithfull: “In the same way that some actors get to keep their wardrobe, Mick came away from Performance with his character. This persona was so perfectly tailored to his needs that he’d never have to take it off again.”
Last Gang In Town
October 16th, 2009
Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon, by Janette Beckman, “before a concert in a bicycle stadium in Milan. We were in an underground tunnel which served as a makeshift dressing room. Everyone was very stoned and the atmosphere was intense.”
The Clash was a dirty job, but someone had to do it.
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