An Ongoing Expose by Noah MallinIn the annals of rock bands who dabbled in disco, few chapters are sadder to relate (or to listen to) than the Beach Boys and their foray into the genre. As we’ve already seen the year 1979 would prove a fateful one for many a seasoned musician. For the venerable [...]
Archival Grave Robbing by Noah Mallin Dr. Hook made their careers as stoned country rockers singing about making it to “The Cover of Rolling Stone” — a song that eventually made their wish come true. Many of their jokey early songs had lyrics supplied by Where The Sidewalk Ends author Shel Silverstein. A bankruptcy and [...]
An Archival Spelunk by Noah Mallin (If the vids show up as unavailable, hit refresh in your browser — it’s just the YouTube demons getting fresh) The late 70s and early 80s were confusing and disturbing times for many in the music industry. For some of the great titans of rock and many of the [...]
Oh Astro are the “found art” kind of musical miscegenators who think its perfectly a-ok to make smashy with Lionel Richie’s “Hello”, Hot Chips’ “Boy From School”, and Fujiya and Miyagi’s “Ankle Injuries.” As if this flaunting of copyright conventionality weren’t enough they have also dished out this video for their song “Hello Fuji Boy” [...]
Gnarls Barkley go gonzo… Just like some other sites out there, we are a music curating interweb TV station too. This April Gnarls Barkley will release the follow up to their album St. Elsewhere and its megahit earworm “Crazy.” Though the new one is named after another TV show, The Odd Couple, they’ve pretty much [...]
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