Truman’s Water wreaked havoc on the indie rock scene with its second album, Godspeed the Punchline in 1993. Its brand of noisy, off-kilter, and calamatous indie rock made the British press all wet, heralding a new Pavement, while the band rode smaller waves of acclaim here in the US. Truman’s Water’s on-the-brink randomness probably sounded […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/j2v-hCGn39Q” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] This is an incredibly rare video for Prince’s “Scandalous” off the 1989 Batman Soundtrack that’s been locked in the vaults for years. Evidently, Prince’s Youtube police force is slacking off a bit. A fan has remastered the audio and edited the video to match up. Nobody seduces a microphone […]

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All four members of Pink Floyd were present at the Barbican Centre in London last night to pay tribute to the man who named the band, Syd Barrett. Barrett’s relentless hallucinogenic drug abuse forced his dismissal as Pink Floyd were on the brink of success after only one record, The Piper at the Gates of […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/M7xwY51vbrI” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Wow. I knew this guy was a freak, but this outfit was just unreal. And he’s almost as tall as Conan. I can’t imagine what the audience thought seeing this overgrown Charlie and the Chocolate Factory extra parading around with glitter chest and make-up. His performance of “Accident & […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/uP35TcHnESM” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Tall Dwarf, Chris Knox– my second favorite epileptic, after Ian Curtis, of course. I once had the pleasure of helping book Knox at a hot dog stand (Frank’s) in Columbia, South Carolina. Picked him up at the airport, took him to an In-store at Manifest, had a vegetarian dinner […]

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It pains me to do this, but Elvis Costello has stepped over the line. The man has always flat-out refused to allow his music to be used in any television commercials, a subtler middle-finger to the man than his famed 1977 Saturday Night Live performance. But, the other night, much to my horror, I saw […]

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No more albums to be released under the name Tupac Shakur. It’s about time. You’d think dying would pretty much nip that shit in the bud, but this guy, or his record company, rather, has released seven posthumous albums of new material. Seven! And they even outsell plenty of current rappers. Part of me thinks […]

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