If there’s a current song that we’re jamming that sounds exactly like our sophomore year of high school, it’d be “Seasick” by Free Kitten — the indie super group featuring Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, Boredoms’ Yoshimi, and ex-Pussy Galore (more…)

Escape Club, “Wild Wild West” (Atlantic Records, 1988)

Rastafarian cowboys who have a thing for arms and legs, but not bodies. That’s pretty much the premise for this bizarre clip for Escape Club’s 1988 smash “Wild Wild West.” But when you think about it, maybe Escape Club were onto (more…)

Boredoms, Super Roots 9 (Thrill Jockey, 2008)

The single, 40-minute track on Super Roots 9 chronicles a Boredoms live performance from Christmas Eve 2004 in Japan. Rightly so: it begins with an extended choral section supplied by the choir that performed with the band, and it brings the record in on the hush of a holiday night. Or at least that’s what we imagine. Which is fine, because if the (more…)

Live Pics: Enon and Thunderbirds are Now! @ the Pike Room, Pontiac, MI - 4/28/08 (more…)

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The Wackness (Jonathan Levine, 2008)

Check out Ben Kingsley at around :48 seconds. He’s doing that thing where a celebrated veteran actor gets away with a (more…)

Constantines, Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts, 2008)

Listen: “Brother Run Them Down”

With raw power and emotion dangling from their flanneled sleeves, Constantines write songs for the workingman; tunes that would sound just as great blasting from tractor trailers as they would a Toyota Prius. Where there’s spilled blood and sweat, the Cons are gonna be there, playing hard and singing loud, howling at the moon. So not surprisingly, on (more…)

Dinah East (Gene Nash, 1970)

Released the same year as Michael Sarne’s Myra Breckinridge, this is a lower rent but far more successful interpretation of similar themes. The film opens with aging starlet Dinah East dying in the back of her limousine. When a lecherous mortician (more…)

Zombie Zombie, “Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free” (Versatile, 2007)

Swivel arm battle grip, yo. That’s Snow Job in the red beard; in the “GI Joe” cartoon of the 1980s, they had him speaking with a slight British accent, or maybe it was South African. He definitely pronounced “Again” as if it was spelled “A-gain.” Here he’s leading (more…)