https://www.musikblog.de/2024/04/musikblog-praesentiert-deadletter/ Wer da? Deadletter, eine englische Art-Garage-Rock-Band aus London (ursprünglich Yorkshire). Und was machen die so für ‘nen Sound? Der Promozettel sagt: “Sie vermischen die skurrile Wut von The Fall und die furiosen Rhythmen von LCD Soundsystem zu einer Spielart vehementen Post-Punks und erforschen die dunklere Seite des Daseins – durch die Linse erzählerischer Leichtigkeit.” Auf […]

Nancy Spungen, Iggy Pop, Cyrinda Foxe & David Bowie (Ocean Club, NYC, 1977, by Bob Gruen)

Thanks Asia for uploading Heat Of The Moment video on official youtube channel!! 🖤😁

✔ Good Morning Social Media! Today’s featured #Spotify #Playlist is: This Is #TheMoodyBlues​; Mei Ling and I feature a new playlist daily. It’s what I have on here in the studio while I Paint and work. You can Listen as well, for FREE, both here at the Link and on the Pop Culture BLOG at my website: www.JamieRoxx.us enjoy :)

#SpotifyPlaylist 🎧: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO3irmrK

🎂 Birthday Remembrances. Today, Dec 29, 1941 – #RayThomas, English singer-songwriter and flute player (#MoodyBlues) (d.2018) was born.

#ProgressiveRock #ArtRock #Psychedelia #PopRock #SymphonicRock #ProtoProg

🎨 Featured here: A #Painting I painted a couple of years ago. This was part of a series of Paintings were I would paint (in my style) one of the great Painters, then in the background I would paint one of their most popular paintings (in their style). It was a fun series to do.

‘Ode to #PeterMax (featuring his #CosmicRunner)’ 2015 acrylic and oil blend on canvas, 20"x16" by @ArtistJamieRoxx #JamieRoxx ( www.JamieRoxx.us ) This Sold Painting is Not Available.

#PopArt! #Portrait . . . #Blog #Art #LifeattheBeach #ArtistsLife #BestFriends #SharPei #Painter #NeoNoir

Have a Merry Scary Christmas! Why not give the gift of music? You can purchase digital SGC, ASG & the new Dada Degas album from https://liberationlondon.bandcamp.com/. Thank you for your continued support! . . . . #postpunk #goth #music #avantgardemusic #postpunkmusic #gothic #gothrock #gothicrock #gothicculture #deathrock #darkwave #artrock #positivepunk #postpunkrevival #gothicchristmas #reaper #skeletonart #sexgangchildren #andisexgang #altrock #newmusic #nowplaying https://www.instagram.com/p/CmlrhsXoQ2t/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

UP THE NYC STREET PUNKS -- HAIL THE V.U.!

PIC INFO: Spotlight on American rock band THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, photographed by Ken Greenberg in NYC during the band's "White Light/White Heat" era, c. 1968.

"In a way, we were perfect punks. Delinquents anyway. I remember my parents thought rock 'n' roll would lead me to juvenile delinquency. But I was already there, so they couldn’t blame it on the guitar playing.”

-- STERLING MORRISON (1942-1995), c. 1985, collected in "Linger On: The Velvet Underground" (by Ignacio Julià, 2022)

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3180193860176874727.

New mix w/ Circuit Des Yeux and more. "Per conoscere me e le mie verità io ho combattuto fantasmi di angosce con perdite di io"

TRACKLIST:

Coro Della S.A.T., “Monte Canino”

Franco Battiato, “No U-Turn”

Illogico, “Africani Gemiti”

Institute, “All The Time”

Commercials, “Simon”

Faust, “Jennifer”

Circuit Des Yeux, “Neutron Star”

Anna Homler, “Almost Beautiful”

CCCP Fedeli Alla Linea, “Depressione Caspica”

Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, “A Suitable Exit”

The Fall, “I Can Hear The Grass Grow”

Richard & The Young Lions, “Open Up Your Door”

Scorched Earth Policy, “Too Far Gone”

The Feelies, “What Goes On”

Graham Lambkin, “Corpsicus”

P1110281 by Skatole Grudnick Via Flickr: "The Residents are an American art collective and art rock band best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works. www.residents.com/ I first saw them 40 years ago, the music they make is often strange, beautiful and strangely beautiful... oh, and scary and funny....really.

Kingston After Dark: The Body/Head connection (backup of my interview from 2019)

1991: The Year Punk Broke was pretty much my almost daily afternoon home video consumption in high school after cutting class and taking acid during the day.

I cannot understate how much the classic noise-rock and grunge-era tour documentary meant to me and opened my mind, heart and ears to a lifetime of appreciating bands with edge, passion and a feminist streak, not to mention the joy of seeing Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon clowning around with Kurt Cobain.

I never thought decades later I would get a chance to talk to Gordon myself. Her fabulous noise landscape painting band Body/Head (with fellow guitarist Bill Nace) has a sophomore record called The Switch out on indie giants Matador Records as of July 13. It is an unromanticized-yet-meditative collection of moody guitar swells and poetic fragments as well as an excellent boundary-pushing follow-up to their 2013 debut Coming Apart and 2016 live album No Waves.

It was a genuine pleasure for myself and my partner Elizabeth Gomez (a.k.a. psych folk singer Globelamp) to interview Kim and Bill before their upcoming BSP Kingston back room theater appearance on Friday, July 20.

Morgan Evans: BSP is a great, non-corporate venue that has grown out of community love and involvement. How did you end up stopping here?

Bill Nace: Someone offered for us to play there and it fit into our routing. I don’t know much about Kingston. I saw Television once. My friend Angel [Deradoorian] opened. There is a poet, Ben Estes, who actually used to live with Kim who I think lives up there now and runs a publishing imprint called The Song Cave. Is Grasshopper from Mercury Rev still there?

Morgan: Yeah, he’s my friend! I am hoping he will do a song with me on my next Walking Bombs album. Kim, I wanted to know if you saw The Center Will Not Hold documentary on Netflix about Joan Didion. I know you mentioned her in your memoir, Girl in a Band. Did you like it?

Kim Gordon: I did. I thought it was pretty fluffy, but I liked learning she would get up in the morning and wear her dark glasses to have a Pepsi for breakfast.

Morgan: I remember that part! It was amazing! Your music in Body/Head is so expansive. There is a lot of debate right now about visibility and why music called “experimental” is often given that category when it is made by white people and not by other races. Everyone can experience things in a unique way, even through a pop song. What was some formative music that made you start to dissect music in a different way and opened your mind? Your records are kind of an experience rather than someone performing a genre.

Bill Nace: That’s a big one. I think experimental is such a weird phrase. We are not experimenting. We know what we are doing. Experimental is like a word that is seen in contrast with pop music. I never feel like I am commenting on pop music or trying to deconstruct that. It is more our own thing. Everyone thinks of pop music as the norm but that doesn’t have to really be the case. There are unlimited access points into music.

Elizabeth Gomez: Kim, I’ve been in the music scene only a little bit and have encountered a lot of sexism. I can only imagine how much you have, being such a pillar in the scene for so long. As a rock icon, do you have any advice for women who want to keep focusing on their art and drown that stuff out?

Kim: I would just … play louder [laughing]. It’s no different than anywhere else, the culture. I guess I got used to working from a position as a bass player that was sort of a supportive role, initially. If you are not directly in the limelight you can be more observant about things and kind of … I don’t know. It’s so normal to be in a male dominated society that it’s kind of … I guess my bar of expectations is a little bit low. [Laughs.] Especially right now with a Supreme Court opening and everything. At the same time, you can’t really stop energy. The wrath of millions of women will be really hard to contain if Roe v. Wade gets really fucked with. It’s coming to a head, in a weird way. I hope it’s not coming to a head in like a “the end of the world” way [laughs].

Elizabeth: The bar is kind of low. I know what you mean. Our president is Trump.

Kim: I guess I am used to working with limitations, is what I am saying. I kind of like that, in a way. I make it work for me. By people not expecting certain things from you, you can kind of surprise them.

Morgan: So, the song itself and song title for your track “Change My Brain” jumped out to me. People cry about “fake news” and trolls try to muddy the waters online so people can’t determine facts anymore. It makes gaslighting easier. We all have some cultural biases, but you can just hear a song and it can make you relax or feel unity at times. That piece was strong and has a great crawling tension build. Music can reset our brains sometimes back to a better reality.

Bill: For us, we try to go in and focus and play. We play and then go back to what we have done and a world and thread happens without us trying to steer it. “Change My Brain,” I came up with that name on tour a few years ago as a possible 7-inch title. We had been on tour for awhile and I just felt insane. I think we like titles like that that are really open so the listener and audience are active participants, rather than putting a fine point on anything.

This is a record cover: XTC Go2, 1978

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... ▪︎ 𝚂𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚛𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚘𝚏𝚏 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙸𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 ▪︎ First spin of 2023: Death Cab for Cutie's beautiful & stunning fourth album 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙢. ▪︎ I first came across this album when I "borrowed" the AIFF files from a hard drive at work that belonged to a colleague back in 2004. Sorry Peter, wherever you are 🙊 😄 The album sat on my iPod and got played a few times, but I never really appreciated it. ▪︎ That's changed recently. I've been streaming it lots on Spotify and knew I had to add it to the collection. I guess I've got more sentimental as I've matured. It's a truly bewitching album; the tense, bittersweet & melancholic sound definitely touched something in me. ▪︎ Mesmerising. ▪︎ ▪︎ #deathcabforcutie #transatlanticism #indierock #artrock #emo #postpunkrevival #vinylrecord #vinylcollection #vinylcollector #vinyljunkie #vinyladdict #vinylgeek #vinylcommunity #instavinyl #lovevinyl #recordcollector #recordcollection #instamusic #lovemusic #music #projectturntable #projectaudio #onmyturntable #nowspinning https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm7iICGMAED/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=