Movie of the Week: Evidently...John Cooper Clarke (2012)

Movie of the Week: Charlie Is My Darling (1965 / 2012)

I wrote about this film when it was first released a couple of years ago. If you have not seen it yet, now is the time to remedy that. And watch it soon here before it gets taken down! Visit the official website here, and buy the DVD here. And hey, my friend Teri won a grammy for her incredible work on the sound mix for this! Huzzah!

Movie of the Week: Music Man Murray (2012)

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Movie of the Week: Bob Dylan and The Band - Down In The Flood (2012)

Today we wish Bob Dylan a very happy 72nd birthday with this presentation of a terrific 2012 doc called Bob Dylan and The Band - Down In The Flood.

Happy new year from Stupefaction!

Endless Art 2012: The Stupefaction obituary round up

Lloyd Charmers
Fontella Bass
Jack Klugman
Marva Whitney
Lee Dorman
Jimmy McCracklin
Ravi Shankar

Tommy Roberts

Dave Brubeck

Frank Barsalona

Marvin Miller

Ken Regan

Mickey Baker

Earl "Speedo" Carroll

Chris Stamp

Bernard Lansky

Major Harris

Ted Curson

Terry Callier

Steve Paul

George McGovern

David S. Ware

Eddie Yost

Danny Sims

Alex Karras

Howard H. Scott

Big Jim Sullivan

Eddie Bert

Kenny's Castaways

Frank Wilson

Andy Williams

Steve Sabol

Sun Myung Moon

Joe South

Hal David

Byard Lancaster

Jerry Nelson

Neil Armstrong

Phyllis Diller

Scott McKenzie

Charles Ball

Johnny Pesky

Carl Davis

Marvin Hamlisch

Gore Vidal

Sherman Helmsley

Ms. Melodie (Boogie Down Productions)

Ossie Hibbert

Bob Babbitt and Maurice Davis (the Funk Brothers)

Jon Lord

Kitty Wells

Perry Baggs (Jason & the Scorchers)

Ernest Borgnine

Ben Davidson

Andy Griffith

Susan Tyrrell

LeRoy Neiman

Bob Welch

Ray Bradbury

Pedro Borbon

Richard Dawson

Doc Watson

Hal Jackson

Robin Gibb

Donna Summer

Chuck Brown

Jesse "Sweet Joe" Russell (The Persuasions)

Donald "Duck" Dunn

Vidal Sassoon

Maurice Sendak

Jim McCrary

Adam Yauch

Lloyd Brevett (Skatalites)

Charles "Skip" Pitts

Bill Skowron

Pete Fornatale

Chris Ethridge

Levon Helm

Teddy Charles

Dick Clark

Lakeside Lounge

Andrew Love (Memphis Horns)

Richie Teeter (Dictators/Twisted Sister)

Mike Wallace

Jim Marshall

Jimmy Little

Bill Jenkins

Giorgio Chinaglia

Earl Scruggs

Bert Sugar

Jimmy Ellis (Trammps)

Ronnie Montrose

Davy Jones (The Monkees)

Red Holloway

Michael Davis (MC5)

Gary Carter

Don Cornelius

King Stitt

Winston Riley

Etta James

Johnny Otis

Jimmy Castor

Signed DC: My favorite things, 2012

Its funny how you can make friends with like-minded folks online. I consider myself lucky to count amongst these types, for me, a young lady who goes by the name, Signed DC, after the Love song of the same name. Not only does she host one hell of a hip radio show Real Cool Time (on CIUT), with her husband, Rocky, but she also runs the fabulous & indispensable blog, It's All The Streets You Crossed Not So Long Ago.

Thanks for the list, DC...see you in the new year!

Alrighty Tim, here are a few of my favorite 2012 things:

Records:

The Seeds—The Seeds (Big Beat)

The Hollies—Radio Fun: A BBC Recording (EMI)

The Moving Sidewalks—The Complete Collection (Rock Beat)

Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago (Numero Group)

The Velvet Underground & Nico - 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box (Universal)

The English Beat—The Complete Beat (Shout Factory)

Brazilian Nuggets Vol. 2 (Groovie)

The Plimsouls—Beach Town Confidential (Alive/Bomp)

The Avengers—Avengers (Water)

All Kinds of Highs: A Mainstream Pop-Psych Compendium (Big Beat)

Smash Boom Bang: The Songs and Productins of Feldman-Goldstein-Gottehrer (Ace)

Da Doo Ron Ron: More from the Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry Songbook (Ace)

Action: The Songs of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (Ace)

The Electric Mess—Falling Off the Face of the Earth

The Nervebreakers—Hijack the Radio (Get Hip)

  

 

Books:

Teenbeat Mayhem—Mike Markesich (Priceless Info Press)

The Best of Punk Magazine—John Holmstrom (It Books)

Punk: An Aesthetic—Johan Kugelberg & Jon Savage (Rizzoli)

The Art of Punk—Russ Bestley & Alex Ogg (Voyageur Press)

Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk—Sam Sutherland (ECW Press)

Waging Heavy Peace—Neil Young (Blue Rider Press)

In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran—John Taylor (Dutton)

Peppermint Twist—John Johnson Jr., Joel Selvin, & Dick Cami (Thomas Dunne Books)

The History of the NME—Pat Long (Anova Books)

My Life in the Ghost of Planets—Binky Philips (Rhino Single Notes)

Blondie: Parallel Lives—Dick Porter & Kris Needs (Omnibus Press)

Commando - Johnny Ramone (Abrams Image)

Light & Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page—Brad Tolinski (Crown)

Led Zeppelin: The Oral History—Barney Hoskyns (Wiley)

Up All Night: My Life & Times in Rock Radio—Carol Miller (Ecco)

Who I Am—Pete Townshend (Harper)

A Memoir - Cyndi Lauper (Atria) 

Best “new” mag: 

Flashback, issues 1 & 2

DVDs:

The Rolling Stones—Charlie is My Darling (ABKCO)

Led Zeppelin—Celebration Day (Atlantic) 

The English Beat—Live at the US Festival (Shout Factory)

Movies/TV Shows/Rock Docs not seen on DVD:

Magic City

Mad Men Season 5

Jobriath A.D.

Not Fade Away
Searching For Sugar Man

Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me (BBC 4)

That’s about all I can think of at the moment! 

Take care, D.C.

Daisy's Letter From London: Best of 2012

 

1. 198 Gallery:  Blank Generation Punk Poster Exhibition - Daisy's friend from art school, Lucy Davies, now runs a great Community Gallery that hosted Gary Loveridge's punk poster collection…a good time was had by all!

2. Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson

2A: To ward off homesickness:  I listen to Radio Free Song Club 

3. Dexy's new album, One Day I'm Going to Soar, played in full at Shepherd's Bush (not a dry eye in the house).

4.  Stone Roses reform and play 3 sold out gigs in their home town, Manchester.  This is Gary holding up my new hat in Heaton Park (left).

6.  There is actually a sunny day in the summer and we sit on a hill by Alexandra Palace and have a picnic.  

5.  We played Jack White's fantastic but creepy new solo album Blunderbuss in the car.  Meanwhile Jack White wears BLUE clothes!

6.  Gary visits San Francisco, goes to see Rise and Fall of The Clash and meets up and coming Spanish filmmaker, Danny Garcia - introduces Daisy via Facebook, and Daisy starts transcribing interviews for his new movie Looking For Johnny (Thunders) and the flashbacks begin!

7. Daisy goes to Paris with Alexandra.  While Alex goes to her 30th high school reunion, Daisy enjoys Noir Blanche.  We stay in the crepe district, visit Samuel Beckett, buy a new umbrella.

8. Rough Trade Record Shop events:  We particularly enjoyed Jarvis Cocker reading from Mother Brother Lover.

9. Living legend, Lee Black Childers' book launch at Soho's Society Club.

10.  Gary goes to all of the Memorial events for 10th Anniversary of Joe Strummer's death. Namely:  

- The Arms Aloft in Acton Town gig at the Tabernacle Notting Hill

- Joe Strummer Memorial Poster Pop Up Exhibition at Tabernacle

- Meeting Joe Strummer - a play by Paul Hodson at the Cockpit, NW8

- London's Burning (a particularly good performance by The Phobics) 

- 100 Club weekend of gigs, Remembering Joe: 10th Anniversary Memorial Weekend, which featured Spizz, The Duel, Ruts DC, The Latchicos, Glen Matlock, Eddie Tenpole, and TV Smith

 

Liz Maher: Better than most in 2012

Marion Cotillard by Tim Walker for W Magazine

Albums

Jack White - Blunderbuss

Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

Tame Impala - Lonerism

Lana Del Ray - Born To Die

Grimes - Visions
Swans - The Seer
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre Is Evil

Books

Tim Walker - Story Teller

Alan Light - The Holy or the Broken

Adam Mansbach - Rage Is Back

Hilary Mantel - Bring Up The Bodies

Movies 

(Disclaimer: I have no patience for them and usually walk out)

Zero Dark Thirty

Chasing Mavericks (Schlocky, but nice waves)

TV Shows

Game Of Thrones

Sherlock (Masterpiece Theater)

Downton Abbey

Art Exhibits

Anything by UX

Happy, merry, my faves of the year: 21 for 12

If today is, indeed, the end of the world, let it not end without noting my favorites of the year. These are all albums unless otherwise noted, and are listed in no particular order.

01. Dr John - Locked Down
02. Rolling Stones - Charlie Is My Darling (film)
03. The Hives - Lex Hives
04. Bill Fay - Life Is People
05. Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
06. Lee Fields - Faithful Man
07. Dexys – One Day I’m Going To Soar
08. Swans - The Seer
09. Searching For Sugar Man (film)
10. Beware of Mr. Baker (film)
11. Velvet Underground - The Verve/MGM Albums (boxset)
12. Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Super Deluxe)
13. Best of Punk Magazine (book)
14. Charles Mingus - The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65
15. The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story (book)
16. Punk: An Aesthetic (book)
17. Sugarman 3 - What the World Needs Now
18. James Chance - Incorrigible!
19. House of Love - House of Love (Deluxe)
20. Mark Stewart - Politics of Envy / Exorcism of Envy
21. Viv Albertine - The Vermillion Border

Tonight! James Chance's Molotov Cocktail Lounge at Parkside Lounge!

12.06.12 - NYC - The Molotov Cocktail Lounge-

Parkside Lounge, 317 E Houston

James Chance presents: The Return of the Molotov Cocktail Lounge flaming funk DJ dance party featuring the rarest & funkiest music you've never heard with live sax & vocals by Mr. Chance himself & special preview of new Contortions album "Incorrigible!" plus live set at 10:00 with James Chance at the piano & Robert Aaron on tenor sax.

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December 2012 Record Sale at the Archive

It's time for the biannual sale at the Archive of Contemporary Music

ARC's hot WINTER Holiday Record + CD SALE

Sat, Dec 8 through Sun, Dec 16

open everyday, 11AM - 6PM

This is our major fundraiser, so come by and shop - books, CDs, LPs, singles, VHS, DVDs, sheet music + more. Help us out ! Blog, face, tweet, post or shout out about our sale...

PARTY for ARC members ONLY on Thursday evening December 6!

You can Join the ARC and attend our party online on PAYPAL or by calling us!

PARTY will also be Jamie Records' launch of the ARCTIC records reissue package + ARC's launch of the Bill Adler Holiday Record Collection

Food by Two Boots Pizza, Brooklyn’s Bonnie's Grill and Tribeca’s Bubble Lounge

KRRB.com is your host for the evening, a local classified startup.

ARChive of Contemporary Music

54 White Street in Tribeca

between Broadway and Church Street

tel : 212-226-6967 e : info@arcmusic.org  

http://arcmusic.org

blog: http://arcmusic.wordpress.com 

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Kyle's Cassettes*: The Lovers by Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf - The Lovers (It Never Rains Records, 2012) by Kyle for Stupefaction

This is the type of record that I will commonly refer to as sounding very "VH1-esque." Some people may remember that before Behind the Music, Celebreality et al, VH1 used to show music videos that, "targeted a slightly older demographic . . . focusing on the lighter, softer side of popular music." A common block of videos might go something like this: Jan Hammer's "Crockett's Theme" followed by Simply Red's "Holding Back The Years" and then capped off with something along the lines of a live in-studio session with The Indigo Girls doing "Closer To Fine". When I was a kid I used to think that anything and everything on VH1 was, to put it succinctly, like really shitty. Of course when I was twelve all I wanted to listen to was JFA, The Dead Milkmen and maybe a little Metallica here and there. As I've grown older my tastes have matured and I have, in my own way, come to appreciate the more sophisticated nuance offered by the finer things in life such as early VH1 programming (like this for instance). So a little word of warning to all the twelve year old boys out there: you're probably not going to like the new Lone Wolf record, everyone else please keep reading.

A couple of adjectives that might aptly describe The Lovers: sprawling, sophisticated, atmospheric, sparse, orchestral, conceptual and so on and so on. People don't really use the term "adult oriented contemporary" anymore when referring to music, at least not without a healthy dose of irony. In 2012 however people will casually use the phrase "post-rock" without feeling even the slightest bit awkward. Post-rock is what you listen to when the girl that you thought you were going to ask to marry you dumps you, it's what you listen to on the flight to Europe for your first time using real luggage in lieu of some patch covered hiking rucksack. Post-rock is what's playing at the wine bar during happy hour when you think to yourself, "I'm finally doing it right." So call it whatever you want,VH1 or not, but one thing is for sure: this is music for adults.

A couple of analogies that might best illustrate what The Lovers actually sounds like: it sort of sounds like Tears For Fears producing a nick nicely album. What it really sounds like though is a busier version of either of the last two Talk Talk records. On the surface that might sound a little dismissive I realize, however it's meant as a compliment. In fact if Paul Marshall were to make an entire career out of trying to pick up the pieces that Mark Hollis left scattered about he'd still be doing a million times better than most of the bands out there that seem to release a record on the internet about every fifteen minutes. So I say go for it Pauly, you're already on the cover of this record with your shirt off, go ahead and take your pants off too. Get comfortable and let it all hang out, light some incense, get a woodwind section and some tinny sounding muted trumpets. Fuck it, call you're next record The Spirit of Laughing because you know what? Mark Hollis is retired, as in like he isn't going to make anymore records. So no bother worrying amigo, the field advantage is yours. There's no shame in having influences except when you don't pay them the full respect they deserve. So quit fucking about and just make the record that, while I can't speak for everyone, I at least want to hear. 

(*Editor's note: No, this album is not available on cassette, but Kyle's column is called Kyle's Cassettes, so we're sticking with it.)

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Seasonal Playlist: Songs They Never Play On The Radio by Jackie McKeown

Songs They Never Play On The Radio by Tyler Mckeown on Mixcloud

01. Romanian Folk Dance - Béla Bartok

02. Frozen Warnings - Nico

03. Golden Hours - Eno

04. Shivers - Boys Next Door

05. Slow Circus (From Tenebrae)- Goblin

06. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Bauhaus

07. Needles In My Eyes - Beta Band

08. Chimacum Rain - Linda Perhacs

09. Lost Highway - Hank Williams

10. Milk And Honey - Jackson C. Frank

11. Piano Concerto No.5 - Bach

12. Duchess - Scott Walker

13. All The Tired Horses - Bob Dylan

14. Blue Moon - Elvis Presley

15. Oh, Jim - Lou Reed

16. Something Better - Marianne Faithfull

17. Maison Rose - Emmanuelle Parrenin

18. It's Choade My Dear - Connan Mockasin

19. Afraid - Nico

20. Billy 7 - Bob Dylan

21. I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day - The Pogues

22. At Last I Am Free - Robert Wyatt

23. Seasons Come, Seasons Go - Bobbie Gentry

24. I’m On Fire - Bruce Springsteen

25. Chelsea Girls - Nico

26. Let It Loose - The Rolling Stones

27. Hammond Song - The Roches

28. Moonchild - King Crimson

29. It's Raining - Irma Thomas

30. Beautiful - Gordon Lightfoot

31. The Kiss - Judee Sill

32. Wichita Vortex Sutra - Philip Glass

33. If… - Pink Floyd

The 1st Annual Stupefaction Holiday Gift Guide

 By Liz & Tim

What to get people? Or what to tell them to get for you? Or what to get for yourself? We’ve got it covered: Print or click the links provided and you are done, finished and can get back to your regular holiday rituals. Begin here.

Before & After: Steve Jones, shot by Brad Elterman

Steve Jones, Los Angeles, 1978, by Brad Elterman

Los Angeles-based photographer, Brad Elterman, and the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones, recently revisited some fun photos they originally shot in 1978 at Brad's house. For the complete set, plus much more, visit Brad's website, Factory 77.

Steve Jones, Los Angeles, 2012, by Brad Elterman

Out today: The Bad Brains' Into the Future

Loving this artwork by Shepard Fairey. Buy the album here.

This is Brainwash and This is a Clue

The verdict is in - this week's issue of the New Vulgate features an extensive review of Someday All The Adults Will Die, the punk related ephemera art show by Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage, recently on in London at the Hayward Gallery. I had mentioned it here back in August before the show opened, and its related book, Punk: An Aesthetic, was to be published. Now...will they bring this damn thing to NYC? Please?!

"For a movement that was so obsessed about being oppressed by the media, it's ironic that punk has proceeded to be the most anthologised, commemorated and plain over-documented post-war cultural period of them all. It's impossible not to feel sometimes that saturation point was reached a long time ago - and what initially felt like a delayed sense of vindication has now become distinctly tiresome. Sick of being sick of being sick." Continued here.

Punk: An Aesthetic can be ordered here.

Daily Travels: Mother New York

Dougherty, Letts, Gruen at a Mother NYC event for Don Letts' Fred Perry subculture films

Big Takeover 71 coming soon

Issue 71 of the Big Takeover includes Beach House, Nada Surf, '60s stars Love (on Da Capo & Forever Changes), Nuggets/Patti Smith legend Lenny Kaye, and The Descendents, as well as a fabulous history interview with '70s L.A. Dangerhouse punks The Deadbeats, and newer greats Maxïmo Park, DIIV, and M. Ward, and much more! Get the full picture here.