January 2012
9 posts
Imperial Teen's New Album
SPIN is streaming the new Imperial Teen.
December 2011
6 posts
WatchCourtney Love: Behind the Clothes - an exclusive look inside her closet.
Courtney Love's New York Townhouse
My friend Eric did an amazing photo story about Courtney Love’s apartment [SEE PHOTOS].
November 2011
22 posts
UK Riot Grrrls Huggy Bear Perform Live in 1994
Everyone forgets that after Huggy Bear’s breakthrough album in 1993, they became a fairly typical hardcore band with virtually no female vocals (No doubt an intentional decision).
Some Broadcast Performances Before Trish Keenan's...
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Clips of Broadcast’s last performances have surfaced that show Trish Keenan experimenting with far-out and eerie vocal loops before she died earlier this year. (also, someone posted early clips of Broadcast from MTV in 1997, which highlight how out of sync they were as a ’90s band)
Amazing Breakdown Scene - The Lonely Lady
It’s like watching my life, only starring Pia Zadora. Here’s a synopsis of The Lonely Lady.
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L7 covering Blondie/the Nerves’...
Liliput - "Turk" and "Split"
I don’t know how i missed this when it was originally posted. Super rare live clip of maybe the best all girl group of the 70s.
Not Every Girl Is a Riot Grrrl
Pitchfork posted this article about how girl bands grapple with the riot grrrl legacy, but I call bullshit on it because the biggest girl-fronted bands in the ’90s were never considered riot grrrls i.e. L7, Babes in Toyland, Hole, Breeders, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair, Elastica, Throwing Muses, Belly, Juliana Hatfield, Kim Gordan, Slant 6, Heavenly, Fastbacks, and on and on and on. Or maybe...
World Welcomes Back Topless Courtney Love
I miss Topless Courtney Love. Welcome back old friend. [More pics at Daily Mail]
Kate Pierson Takes on the Songs of the B-52s
Kate Pierson talks about the iconic songs in her career, including Rock Lobster, Private Idaho and Shiny Happy People. VERY recommended. [AV CLUB]
Bongwater: Most Underrated New York Band Gets the...
Enjoy an entire concert from legendary NY band Bongwater, fronted by actress/artist/downtown icon Ann Magnuson. If you manage to watch the whole video, you’ll see that Bongwater were so ahead of their time but also victims of it - being avant in the transitional period between the ’80s and Nirvana leave them sounding simultaneously singular but dated. Odds are there will never be...
Martha Stewart's Halloween Descent Into the...
Martha Stewart had a very avant garde-est Halloween. According to her Twitter, she went to go see Alejando Jodorowsky’s “Holy Mountain,” and while there she ran into artist Terrence Koh and “three costumed folk happy.” I don’t have the heart to tell her that the “folk” on the left - Genesis P-Orridge - is not really in costume.
October 2011
7 posts
Happy Halloween: Slant 6 'What Kind of Monster Are...
WatchThe latest depressing scene from “Enlightened” with Laura Dern - How thinking of other people’s lives fills you with emptiness (there is good news at the end of the episode, though!).
New Mazzy Star Single Makes Me Sad
Click for Mazzy Star’s “Common Burn” and get depressed.
WatchShowtime’s “Homeland” committed a crime against the ’90s last night. Please keep “Toad the Wet Sprocket” out of your psycho-terror drama. Plus, “Fall Down” is a better party jam.
Wild Flag's 'Electric Band' Video
NPR got the exclusive premiere.
Pray for Rosemary's Baby Button
Button from Busy Beaver Buttons
September 2011
1 post
Everyone I Know Loves the Veronica Falls
Every musician I know is in love with the Veronica Falls in the same way everyone from Yo La Tengo and Sleater-Kinney to Belle and Sebastian and the Magnetic Fields - were in love with the Aislers Set 10 years ago. These scrappy new VF tracks are amazing, and I hope the ‘band’s band’ label doesn’t condemn them to obscurity the way it did for Amy Linton, who’s a...
August 2011
9 posts
Soft Power, Mary Timony's Other Band
Just before supergroup Wild Flag formed, Mary Timony was briefly in Soft Power; and in a desperate attempt to find an mp3 of their 2 songs, I came across this 2-hour radio session where the Helium frontwoman plays awesome art rock and talks about her career. The interviewer was an idiot, but I did learn a few key things:
1. She was an original member of Nation of Ulysses!
2. “Junebug”...
Mikal Cronin Gives Some '90s Indie Realness
This is technically filed under psyche rock; but to my ears, Mikal Cronin’s “Apathy” sounds like an angel - the same one that inspired Tonic and Live to record - descended from modern rock heaven to make a lo-fi recording as a new celestial covenant with humanity after those less savory ’90s bands perverted the previous one 15 years ago. Download here.
Tina Brown's '90s New Yorker Cover
Sure Tina Brown is taking heat for the Newsweek cover of googly-eyed Michele Bachmann, but nothing is as jaw-dropping as her putting a rabbi tonguing a black woman on the cover of the New Yorker during the heady, politically correct days of 1993. I never saw it until today. What an awesome bitch.
The Vaselines Cover Nirvana's "Lithium"
Spin magazine released a Nirvana “Nevermind” tribute with covers from bands like Titus Andronicus and EMA, all of which suck except for the slow, creepy Vaselines’s version of “Lithium.” Good that they could pay back Kurt for the Unplugged session. Too bad the Meat Puppets couldn’t do the same with their cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on the...
Fringe Festival: Courtney and Kathleen: A Riot Act
Sometimes the NY Fringe Festival offers you a show that counters every bad thing you usually think about theater people. Courtney and Kathleen: A Riot Act ”Seattle, the early 90s. Reviled rock goddess Courtney and feminist punk poster grrrl Kathleen strike up a fraught friendship—but will the tragedies ahead pull these badass revolutionaries apart? Inspired by real-life, larger-than-life,...