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Posted by s woods on December 11, 2007
This French new wave track from 1981 is decent enough, I suppose (they’re no Stinky Toys), but the video’s fantastic for its colourful backdrop, which consists entirely of images from one of my all-time favourite music books (memorably described in a 2004 article by Nick Coleman as “the pornography of rock” as well as its “stained glass window”).
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Posted by s woods on December 11, 2007
Gregory Stephen Tate and a dozen others salute Tom Terrell in this week’s Village Voice, a great tribute to a writer and DJ I confess to being barely familiar with before the announcement of his death last week.
“Tom also threw the absolute best D.C. house parties back in the day, affairs eagerly awaited and renowned among men and dogs for their hot fusion of wine, weed, women, and song. Like me, Tom left DJing (and concert production) to scribe in New York: a natural transition, except Tom went on to also do, as he had in D.C., just about every job you could do in the music business without singing, strumming, and dancing. Not just promotion, marketing, and a&r, but tour managing (for Steel Pulse) and rigging lights 50 feet in the air above outdoor stages, too.”
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Posted by A.C. Rhodes on December 11, 2007
The lyrics have become a saying, or a reaction, to just about any rocker’s (or rock writer’s) super bad behavior. But when does this become a cop out?
Bonus question for this week of weeks: Where were you when John Lennon was unfairly taken from this mortal coil?
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Posted by s woods on December 11, 2007
A few blogs have been on my radar lately:
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