"A series that swerves the more predictable biographies and traditional histories of popular music"
Popular Music and Society
In front of a packed audience at Mr Musichead Gallery on Sunset and accompanied by Tree Adams on guitar, who assembled a superb band especially for the night to help capture the essence of Tom Waits’ iconic early songs.
Alex Harvey, author of Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles, recently held a launch party and reading at Let It Roll records Kentish Town Rd, London (27th July), where a great time was had by all (some images from Let It Roll, above and below).
A 70s punk rom-com — Pennebaker meets Depeche Mode — How a Boston Globe Reporter Tried to Reunite The Kinks and Ended Up With a Movie — Welcome to Jack White's Temple to Vinyl — Remastering, Reflecting: Everything Still Turns to Gold — The music industry is full of pompous bores - and that's just the writers — The Bird is the Word, says Richard Meltzer
‘No, no way. Nah, nah, no way' ... Van Morrison says ‘No' — ‘You're under arrest,' Boston mayor tells Rolling Stones audience — Bootleg tapers unmasked — David Bowie's Favourite books — Ray Davies, once and future impresario of Rock Opera — Ray dances in the Kinks ‘Starmaker’ TV Special — When John Waters met Little Richard
Shoppers may soon be flourishing credit cards featuring the word ‘bollocks’ — and The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Chaos — Christopher Sorrentino talks about 'Trance' — and talks to Zachary Lazar — while a 1968 Sandy Pearlman hears intimations of rock's world-weariness — and reveals of a network of Patti Smith coincidences
UFO crashing and being an unemployed rock star in Michael Hann’s 54 minutes with Phil Mogg — Robert Frank's CS Blues 'never playing anywhere' — Los Angeles Doors Tour — Paul Rothchild on the Doors — (Still) Searching for Robert Johnson — Willie Brown's M & O Blues — Charley Patton and the Revenant