Wondering if I can have a second go with my strawberry alarm clock ? Once again, as of now I'm en route to SF (and still working many many words of my NaNoWriMo novel ) so keeping this quickie super short to the point of second-handed! Today, LunaParkLA is providing half off EVERYTHING (food, yes, drinks, yes, exotic entertainment... errm, wrong place), just print out this picture , bring it in, and...
By Mark Hughes Cobb Staff Writer Forty years after the '60s, what's the point? We're still in an unpopular war or two; but there's no draft. Poor people are still fighting, but because they signed up for paychecks and benefits, not because their daddy didn't have connections. Students today care about war, but they don't have as many reasons to fear as hippies did.
...but with plenty of rhymes. A random ten... Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Stan Rogers - Rolling Down To Old Maui Groove Armada - Tuning In Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense And Peppermints Suzi Quatro - Can The Can Mott The Hoople - Roll Away The Stone Emily Lord - Saying Goodbye Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman Sam & Dave - I Thank You Ferlin Husky - Freightliner...
www.laurenbamford.com British India Genre: Pop / Rock / Punk From: Melbourne, Victoria Australia British India is a gang of social misfits from Melbourne, Australia who got together over a shared love of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club , The Beatles , Blur , and Starsailor !!. and decided that forming a band was the only logical career path. The band, named after a Strawberry Alarm Clock b-side, have a...
Singer Amy Winehouse is 26. Actor Walter Koenig (”Star Trek”) is 73. Singer-actress Joey Heatherton is 65. Actor Sam Neill is 62. Singer John “Bowzer” Baumann of Sha Na Na is 62. Guitarist Ed King (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd) is 60. Saxophonist Steve Berlin of Los Lobos is 54. Country singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman is [...]
The Band: The Drums The Buzz: Surf music from New York? Believe it: this Brooklyn combo combines the starry-eyed wonder of the Wilsons with the pout of the 80s New Romantics, generating the kind of buzz that’s going to make them regret having a name that’s impossible to Google. Listen If: No matter what it’s like outside, [...]
JANE'S ADDICTION star DAVE NAVARRO has joined the ranks of BILLY CORGAN's new supergroup SPIRITS IN THE SKY.Navarro will join the Smashing Pumpkins star, Strawberry...
By Cara AlwillBilly Corgan announced on the Smashing Pumpkins' official website yesterday that he has officially hired a new drummer, and today he reveals more news regarding the band's immediate future. It looks like Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro will be heading out on tour with the Pumpkins at the end of this month, along [...]
SMASHING PUMPKINS star BILLY CORGAN has formed a new supergroup with the ex-husband of former bandmate D'ARCY WRETZKY.Corgan debuted Spirits In The Sky for a July...
Bartender "JaNiece" mixing things up at Alembic Since I'm becoming increasingly adventurous and passionate about beverages, you better believe that during my June weekender in San Francisco that I did my share of R&D into their assorted potables, especially given all the tales I've heard of their vibrant cocktail culture that pushes the envelope in every direction possible. Alas, San...
The-Dream has announced that his upcoming album Love King will be his last. On his Twitter account, the-Dream wrote that while he would continue to write, produce and appear on other artists’ albums, this would be his final album because “everybody is trying to ‘KILL THE DREAM!’ [The Dream is] the ONLY one that can [...]
A few words in the wee hours to get your spirit rising, your mojo working, and your heart pumping. I’m exhausted, and these are doing me some good. Hopefully they will do the same for you. ‘If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.’ – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul On Ice ‘Get up, stand [...]
Last night a one-time supergroup dubbed Spirits In The Sky paid tribute to psych-rock pioneer Sky "Sunlight" Saxon at LA's Echoplex. Bringing together Billy Corgan's pickup group, Electric Prune bassist Mark Tulin, and Strawberry Alarm Clock keyboardist Mark Weitz, Spirits performed the Norman Greenbaum hit they were named after, the Seeds' "900 Million People Daily (All Makin' Love),"...
Photo: Valerie Phillips. Summer turns the stove on and fun begins to cook. Barefoot walks in Baltimore with empty pocketbook. When night comes we can go walking on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. A silence tailored for talking and a love with so much to say. Monsters at Work - Magic morning A Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism Island (Lo, 2009) Dj [...]