Friday, Music: "Chompers" by the Monorchid. Great postpunk/posthardcore band from the 90s. This week, I finally scored a physical copy of this out of print gem at reasonable price. Total ripper. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEex...
Friday, Music: Rites of Spring from Washington DC. Great band, so intense, especially their noisier songs. In a previous life, I played guitar in a one-off band doing a set of Rites of Spring songs with people from Pittsburgh's GoToBeds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf_u... #emo #punk #music #TGIF
Friday Music: My longtime friend Ashton released a pretty cool country rock record earlier this year and kindly asked me to play in his backing band for a gig at Golddiggers in LA on October 18th. If you're local, stop by. letspretendrecords1.bandcamp.com/track/whisky...
Friday, Music: Going to see Kid Congo Powers do sets of Birthday Party and Bad Seeds songs later, so, figured I'd share the Bad Seeds doing "From her to eternity" in the movie Wings of Desire (remade in the US as City of Angels with a much less cool Goo Goo Dolls song). youtu.be/MjYf9IiB8QE?...
A typology of membranes. I'm imagining if a modern sociologist wrote this: "Most people think a membrane is just a membrane, but I show how membranes come with all sorts of motivations, some expected and some quite surprising." 😂
End of Day Monday Music: Alice Cooper "Caught in a Dream." Find an open highway and cruise with this at full blast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRFn...
Saturday Rock'n'Roll: the Gories - "There but for the grace of god" One of the rare covers that improves upon the original. Up there with Devo's "Satisfaction" and Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt." www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kBc...