Sometimes you discover music that is a pure injection of electric energy into your day. Ghost Funk Orchestra’s Walk like a Motherfucker (2018) is exactly the kind of joyous, self-assured, even arrogant single that makes you want to strut your bad ass down the street. Don’t think of Travolta here- this is all Shaft. Roll …
There is a rule of thumb for music that I like: the simpler it is, the better I like it. John Lee Hooker is the measure of all things in this regard. I admire him for everything he has achieved within blues- a pioneer and visionary of the kind who is born maybe once every …
The whistling… this fucking whistling. Only a few seconds into the song, and you’re already in some twisted Land of Oz- finished, fucked up and destroyed. Throwback to my first introduction into torture: early 90s in gray Germany- the Berlin Wall has fallen and the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” is all over the place, and …
Ruyter Sighs and Blaine Cartwright talk Nashville Pussy, the hilarious new audio book on “High As Hell”, gossip from their Grammy nomination parties, and how streaming services like Spotify destroy music. Also revealed: the ‘Dee Snider Rule’ + the Cartwright method on how to persuade a bomb lady like Ruyter to leave Canada and come …
In 1967, I was still in school and played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound in Düsseldorf. George Harrison, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton were my idols. Then Jimi Hendrix came- and everything changed. In March 1967, he and his band- with Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass, performed for …
“It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.” Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles September 2020: Corona and the endless rule & policy insanities connected it are still going strong in Germany and many other countries across the globe. In what seems to be a sharp paradigm change towards …
I’ve always had an aversion to the musical category called ‘Fusion’, often referred to as Jazz Fusion or, even worse, Jazz/Rock Fusion. Those slick, smooth artists like Pat Metheny, Jean Luc-Ponty or… Allah help me, Jeff Beck. Maybe I should explain. Just the thought of that smooth, useless sound immediately transcends me back to my …
„If you don’t like The Supersuckers, you don’t like rock’n’roll“ Lemmy Ron Heathman of the Supersuckers passed away on August 18th. An obituary by Glen Clarke, with exclusive statements by The Dwarves, New Bomb Turks, and others… (Photo credit: Jim Hucks) *** Mr. Rontrose Heathman, the man who changed the way we look at life-most …
The 13th Floor Elevators weren’t only innovative for their time. They were so different- I liked that from the first moment I discovered them. Like me, they came from a boring small town, and they established a musical independence that was new in its consequence. Optically they looked like backward hillbillies, but stylistically they conveyed …
Meg Baird’s most recent solo album Don’t Weigh Down The Light was released in 2015. She also plays drums, sings, and writes lyrics for the band Heron Oblivion who released their debut in 2016. Meg collaborated with harpist Mary Lattimore on Ghost Forests released in 2018. Meg Baird’s music has been acclaimed as “celestial” (NPR), …
