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.
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.
Girlie Action Media has announced Meditations on Crime, a collaborative new album and art book, due out September 23
Detroit Stories (Earmusic). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Punk heroes unite to give a rowdy look at the classic L.A.M.F. album 40 years down the road.
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.
The Detroit Rebellion of ‘67 EP. Review by Carl F Gauze.
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!”
Snake Oil (Cleopatra Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Heaven’s End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Brett Callwood’s comprehensive book on the criminally overlooked Stooges doesn’t, this time, focus completely on Iggy Pop.
Music’s not for Everyone (K). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Carl F Gauze reviews this extremely thorough biography of an obscure but groundbreaking musician from the glory days of Sunset Strip.
Hippies! Free love! Boobs! MC5! So why is this “lost classic” such a bummer, man?
Hawkwind Triad (Neurot). Review by Matthew Moyer.
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.
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 (Mud Memory). Review by Jen Cray.
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.
Sudden Departure Vultures (Uprising). Review by Jen Cray.
Blood, guts, and kicking butt in France — it’s the age-old story of Shakespeare. Carl F. Gauze once again enjoys the salacious violence and complicated plot points of Henry V, in the moody dark of Orlando Shakes.
Infidelity, agoraphobia and Ice Capades. Carl F. Gauze attempts to find an answer to the question “How Florida can you get?” in The Great American Trailer Park Musical at Theater West End.
Jeremy Glazier catches Ian Noe at the Rust Belt, where they discuss putting Between the Country together, some of the influences that affect Noe’s songwriting, and his dislike of EPs.
Christopher Long scores an absolutely ravaged vinyl copy of the 1977 self-titled debut from Karla Bonoff at a Florida flea market — for FREE!
Carl F. Gauze reviews this comprehensive look at the early works of Muppets creator Jim Henson by Craig Shemin.
Robert Pomeroy tracks down a long lost album on the web and catches up with two other bands on Facebook.
On today’s New Music Now, Judy Craddock talks to our musical guest, Nora O’Connor, about her solo album, My Heart, and the captivating new music she’s listening to right now. Tune in for great music, and more ’90s references than you can shake a scrunchie at.
Writer Kazuo Kasahara and director Kôsaku Yamashita transcend genre conventions to create the memorable film Big Time Gambling Boss. Phil Bailey reviews.
Frank Bello’s new memoir Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax takes us from a New York childhood, to Anthrax stadium tours, to fatherhood with the charming informality of a conversation with an old friend. Then I’m Gone, Bello’s first solo EP, provides accompaniment. Joe Frietze reviews.
Savvy shopper Christopher Long scores a dodgy-looking copy of the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young classic, Déjà Vu, on fairly decent-sounding vinyl — for just 50¢.
Carl F. Gauze caught a certain trio of android warrior sisters at the Enzian’s Robotica Destructiva premiere.
Brevard County showed their support for music in the community as nearly five thousand people attended the 2022 Space Coast Music Festival.