Grimes had an entire album called Miss Anthropocene, but I can't say if any of the songs on it have to do with the Anthropocene extinction as I lost any interest in anything she had to say on any topic once she took up with the Colossal Shitbag. The Handsome Family - "Passenger Pigeons"by breno
Genesis had a song about the dodo on Abacab. "I Melt With You," "99 Luftballoons" and "Walk the Dinosaur" are three off the top of my head that might fit, depending on how much you want extinction to overlap with nuclear armageddon.by breno
Original guitarist for Cake. He wrote "The Distance," which was their first original song to make any sort of splash. He left Cake after their second album and formed Deathray.by breno
The main thing I learned from listening to the Sirius Yacht Rock channel was that, if you really listen to the lyrics, "Wildfire" is the story of a man losing his mind from sleep deprivation because an owl outside his bedroom window has kept him awake for a week, resulting in him hallucinating a ghost girl and horse.by breno
Did she record anything with Let's Active or Oh Ok? I'm not seeing her in the credits for any of the recordings, so I'm assuming she was only in the live line-ups.by breno
I think the main reason soft rock got cool (such as it is) was the invention of the name Yacht Rock. Prior to that, "soft rock" or "light rock" were just descriptors for radio stations that could play in the lobbies of dentist offices without getting anyone agitated. Those weren't genre names, or at least weren't genre names that got anyone worked up enough to have aby breno
Chris Stein just posted that. Sad news. Back when I saw Television on tour in support of their comeback album, my brother, me and our friends managed to be right at stageside. Everyone in the audience was yelling out praise for Verlaine and Lloyd, to the point where I felt the need to yell "FRED!!!!" The look of delight on his face at being cheered still makes me happy 30+ years lateby breno
No Chris Isaak in '91, but he does have a show by the Bishops! The local heroes of Alton, Illinois! Chicago might've been the furthest they got to play from home.by breno
I've only ever made it up to Chicago for shows a handful of times, but I see he did get the My Bloody Valentine show I went to in 2018. I was hoping he had Chris Isaak at the Riviera in 1991, and maybe he does - I went cross-eyed from scrolling after a while and had to bail.by breno
Because I just can't bring myself to start another R.I.P. thread, I'll piggyback Lamonte McLemore - founding member of the Fifth Dimension - onto this one. I'll excuse it by pointing out there was at least a surface similarity between Three Dog Night and the Fifth Dimension, in that both combos mainstreamed aspects of hippie culture to make it more palatable for the squares. I tby breno
Simon Reynolds is releasing a follow-up to his beloved post-punk history book Rip It Up and Start Again (soon to be a major motion picture.......maybe?) covering the years 1984-94, examining the rise of indie-rock and shoegaze and presumably whatever else was in there. Details at The Quietus:by breno
One of the three dogs of Three Dog Night. Lead vocalist on "One," "Joy to the World," "An Old Fashioned Love Song," etc. Danny Hutton is now the last surviving Dog. I guess managing Fear was better for one's health than you would suspect.by breno
Original bassist (and coiner of the name) for Funkadelic.by breno
I'm friends with Erik Hage and Blasmo on Facebook, but have no contact with any other long absent former regulars here.by breno
Singer-songwriter, also known as P. Hux. Eventually ended up in Bev Bevan's non-Jeff Lynne version of ELO. Zwirn is the co-author of his entry on this site, so I'm sure he can share more insight on Huxley's career than I can. I think I had his first album and liked it okay, but he subsequently slipped through the cracks with me.by breno
This week's guest on the Letting Them Talk with Will Harris podcast is Captain Sensible. Honestly, it's not one of Harris' best interviews, as it runs pretty short on the sorts of anecdotes Harris usually gets out of his subjects and the Captain apparently spent most of the interview eating very dry oatmeal cookies without anything to wash them down. But the Captain is always enterby breno
He recorded one very nice album under the name Crybaby, and one very nice album with Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura as Tracyanne and Danny. I wish he'd been a bit more prolific, as I enjoyed the music he did put out very much.by breno
Living in the Midwest, I had no access to his show but I heard all about him in songs by Dramarama, the Ramones and Bowie (who was turned on to him by John Lennon). I first heard of him via a series of pics in TP. Condolences to those in the NYC & Jersey area for whom he was a regular part of their lives. He seems to have been a first rate example of a local DIY community access show.by breno
Truly one of the greats. Very sad to learn of this news.by breno
Founding drummer for Siouxsie and the Banshees. (I know, technically Sid Vicious was, but does anyone really count that?) His departure from the band opened the door for Budgie to join, which ended up working out pretty well for Siouxsie. Following his stint in the Banshees, he became an artist, teacher and gallery owner.by breno
I've never been much of a Dead fan, so I couldn't tell you what was a Weir song and what was a Garcia.by breno
"Vitamin C" has been turning up in quite a few movies, tv shows and commercials over the last 10 or so years. The first place I saw it used was in Inherent Vice, but apparently it popped up in an Almodovar movie before that. I know I've seen it in at least a couple of commercials in the last few years. Media music supervisors are a bunch of copycats, so they see a cool needle dropby breno
You're not missing anything truly vital if you take a pass on reunited Blondie, but they're not a waste of time, either. There's a lot of good stuff spread out over the reunion albums - none of it threatens to surpass the high points of their glory days, but the best of it can go on updated best of comps without sticking out like a sore thumb. Standouts off the top of my head are &by breno
Definitely looking forward to new Dry Cleaning. I hope that they change up the formula at least a little bit, but it should be good even if they don't. What will likely be the final Blondie album is on the docket for 2026. I would hope that Debbie & Chris wouldn't plan to continue recording under the name with Clem gone, anyway, and putting out the final album in the 50th anniverby breno
Punk/Post-Punk from Wellington, New Zealand, 1980. Featuring Fran Walsh - creative and life-partner of Peter Jackson, co-screenwriter of the Lord of the Rings movies, among others - on guitar and bass. Tracks #2, 5, 7 & 8. The other bands in the link are also dandy.by breno
Mubi was running a deal to get a subscription for a buck a month for two months, so I went ahead and signed up because I wanted to see Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, and saw that they have the Pavements movie, so I checked that out and am happy to say I mostly enjoyed it. It's helped quite a bit by having Joe Keery play Malkmus in the biopic within the documentary, as Keery is currenby breno
Indie film director who made the Blank Generation documentary, along with multiple other chronicles of the NYC punk/no wave scene. Had a few mainstream movies that didn't really make much of splash, like Alphabet City and Frogs for Snakes. I've not seen those.by breno
With Bardot's death, there are only three people mentioned in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" are still alive. Bob Dylan Chubby Checker Bernhard Goetz Of those three, only Goetz is not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Considering he was a white guy who shot some Black kids asking him for money, he has mostly the same qualifications as any early recordby breno
"Fairytale of New York" needs to go on the "Please...in the name of all that's holy, just stop" list alongside "Hallelujah" and "Creep." But given that it's become a holiday standard, I guess oversaturation is an inevitability.by breno
Iconic sex symbol, actress, ye-ye singer & Serge Gainsbourg collaborator, Lovecraftian racist, loved animals, loathed people. The only lyric I can ever remember from "Message of Love" by the Pretenders.by breno
