I was 14 and trying out some guitar riffs with my first band. There was an older guy, and throughout one of our songs he said: “That sounds like Gimme Danger from The Stooges– and you sound like James Williamson.” I didn’t know the Stooges back then and was quite pissed off: when you’re 14 …
Zeke dropped me off at the club, staying long enough to get me past the gauntlet of men at the bar, alone and in clusters, turning to glare openly at me as we entered. Some – sipping drinks, laughing, gesticulating, faces lit up from within – were arrested mid-gesture, like deer caught in the headlights, …
Remember when nothing tops the excitement of the latest release from a hottest new band? Ripping past the sleeve plastic. Denting the cover sleeve from your enthusiasm. Touching the vinyl grooves directly with your fingers and slamming that album on your parents turntable. All done with the skill and precision of a butcher. Fuck it! …
Nick Cave‘s newest album and latest career is a prime example of how much the wish to be effortlessly edgy, hip, and ‘dark’ with a hint of depth, blurs the senses and judgement of listeners. We start with the cover. It reminds me of an experience that I had earlier in 2019: while walking through …
Up to a certain point, art is the satisfaction of personal vanity. That is part of its nature. Nevertheless, as I get older I find that simplicity is the most complicated and at the same time most worthwhile thing for me as an artist. In cinema, but especially in music. Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix, …
Why would an accomplished, yet not too affluent musician jump through the hoops of founding their own record label and make the expense to release their album on vinyl in this day and age? Well, maybe this move coincides with the human need to cling to every last bit of physical media in this raging …
or: The Most Bizarre David Bowie Cover of All Times This is the untold story of a genre that puts goth, emo and all other sad and desperate musical styles world-wide to shame. The story of songs of which some were banned from the Turkish public broadcaster in the 70s and 80s, because they “glorified …
(Read our related main story here: Crazy Turks – 1 / Müslüm Gürses & the Razor Blades) A selection of Müslüm Gürses fan comments under his videos on YouTube: – Listening to him is like shoveling earth on myself – Damned be those who made you write this song – You’ve raped our emotions again, …
(Read the related main story here: Crazy Turks – 1 / Müslüm Gürses & the Razor Blades and “Listening to him is like shoveling earth on myself.” Müslüm Gürses Fans on Youtube) Here is a selection of the best titles from about 75 albums that Müslüm Gürses released. The suffering doesn’t ever have to stop- …
Sonic Youth, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Franz Ferdinand, REM, Minutemen, Elastica, Black Flag, Johnny Marr, the Feelies, Guided by Voices, Ladytron, Minor Threat, Fischerspooner, Bloc Party, Low, Ministry, and almost everyone on the planet with a set of ears who was ever in a band, has been influenced by them. Yet, they remain unknown …
