Meditations on Crime
Politics is Crime. Crime is Politics. Discuss… Carl F. Gauze reviews Meditations on Crime, the book half of Harper Simon’s super-collaborative art and music project.
Tag: MC5
Meditations on Crime 2-Part Project Announced
Girlie Action Media has announced Meditations on Crime, a collaborative new album and art book, due out September 23
Alice Cooper
Detroit Stories (Earmusic). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
L.A.M.F.: The Heartbreakers’ Live at the Bowery Electric
Punk heroes unite to give a rowdy look at the classic L.A.M.F. album 40 years down the road.
Louder Than Love – The Grande Ballroom Story
Detroit in the 1960’s was a hard city going through hard times. The music that come out of Detroit was incubated at the Grande Ballroom. Wayne Kramer (MC5), Ted Nugent and many others remember the wild times.
Detroit Rebellion
The Detroit Rebellion of ‘67 EP. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Detroit Rock City
The once vital city of Detroit gave us the auto industry and punk rock. Detroit Rock City shares the heights – and the depths – of the Motor City. James Mann says “Kick out the jams!”
The Fuzztones
Snake Oil (Cleopatra Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Loop
Heaven’s End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Loop
Heaven's End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The Stooges: Head On
Brett Callwood’s comprehensive book on the criminally overlooked Stooges doesn’t, this time, focus completely on Iggy Pop.
Chain & The Gang
Music’s not for Everyone (K). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love
Carl F Gauze reviews this extremely thorough biography of an obscure but groundbreaking musician from the glory days of Sunset Strip.
GOLD: Before Woodstock. Beyond Reality.
Hippies! Free love! Boobs! MC5! So why is this “lost classic” such a bummer, man?
Harvestman / US Christmas / Minsk
Hawkwind Triad (Neurot). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Patti Smith: Dream Of Life
Patti Smith is artfully captured over 11 years, showing America’s punk poet as mother, daughter, rebel, and widow. James Mann finds it a beautiful and captivating portrait of one of our greatest artists.
Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth
Peter Wild and a group of authors take on the challenge of making literature out of Sonic Youth’s noisy, chaotic, shimmering music. S D Green has some warnings for fans of Sonic Youth who may be intrigued.
The Points
The Points (Mud Memory). Review by Jen Cray.
Iggy and the Stooges: Escaped Maniacs
Rip your shirt off and check out Iggy Pop’s shake appeal… Scott Adams tells Ink 19 The Stooges are really big in Belgium right now.
The American Black Lung
Sudden Departure Vultures (Uprising). Review by Jen Cray.
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Space Coast Music Festival
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