Dallas Observer | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Vintage rural rock, country folk and stoner bluegrass are some of the more beautiful things our screwed-up country has given the world. My Sansa Fuze is packed with the stuff: The Grateful Dead, John Hartford, Waylon, Pure Prairie League, Muleskinner, Mason Proffit, the Seldom Scene and about 20 ...
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
"Yesterday I spent the whole day with...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
One day I found myself looking for obscure "glam rock" compilations on Amazon UK and the "customers who bought this" recommendation led me to an album called "Breathlessly Brett" an LP originally recorded in the mid-1970s -- but not released until 2003 -- by a then teenage performer named Brett Smiley. It seldom left my CD player for the next month. I'd never heard of Brett Smiley before, but when...
death from below (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
another wasted year. fuck. Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers "Born To Lose"
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
RONNIE SPECTOR & THE RONETTES
Enzian Theater (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
And I'm not talking Tom Petty or Johnny Thunders here. No, the New York Mets actually did it again, the second year in a row that they blew it down the stretch and let a playoff berth slip through their...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
V intage rural rock, country folk, and stoner bluegrass are some of the more beautiful things our screwed-up country has given the world. My Sansa Fuze is packed with the stuff: The Grateful Dead, John Hartford, Waylon, Pure Prairie League, Muleskinner, Mason Proffit, ...
Art's Strange World (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Ahoy! Ye mangy lot o’ bilge rats, ’ere be me picks fer pirate songs… Pirate by The Ethiopians Europa and the Pirate Twins by Thomas Dolby Pirate Love by Johnny Thunders Lass mich dein Pirat sein (Let Me Be Your Pirate) by Nena Avast! Dinna say they be good pirate songs! An, o’ course… A Pirate looks at 40 by Jimmy Buffett (Ye lubbers did know it be International Talk [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Photo: Getty Legendary rock photographer Bob Gruen, who has published books on John Lennon and the Clash, has just released a new hardcover, New York Dolls: Photographs, with commentary by rock journalist Legs McNeil and an afterword by major Dolls fan Morrissey. “The New York Dolls are like family to me,” says the 62-year-old Gruen. They [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Alejandro Escovedo set the bar high at his Sunday show at The Triple Door -- and delivered.
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
They came from all over the place, more specifically- Melbourne, and San Francisco. They are Skybombers, and Apache, two bands on a collision course that met up in Jersey City on Terre T's Cherry Blossom Clinic last Saturday! Here is...
whiskey in a teacup.com (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Dan shares a story about winding up on the wrong end of a knife, resulting in a large gash to the left forearm. After enjoying his tale, I realized that my own left forearm was once home to a rather sizable slice, though unlike his mine was self-inflicted. Those days are long behind [...]
VH1 (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Ultimate Guitar has put together a feature covering what they describe as "Punk Rock's 10 Mightiest Guitar Gods." The list mostly focuses on the so-called golden age of punk, with many of the early CBGB and 70's/80's-era British acts well represented. The list includes the Velvet Underground, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers , Patti Smith , The Ramones , Sex Pistols , The Clash , Television and...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
"These guys", informs New York Dolls singer David Johansen, with a sweep of the hand towards his band, "were drinking in a bar at Dublin Airport this morning. At 9am." His chuckle deepens as guitarist Sylvain Sylvain stammers something about Irish coffee in futile mitigation. "You're a disgrace," rejoins Johansen. Good. Disgrace is what we're here for, after all.
