I Approve
Or at least it looks like that’s what he intends to do in this smokin’ photo, where he most definitley gives Manowar bassist Joey DeMaio a run for the money! Death to False Metal!
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How I Stopped Worrying And Learned to Love iTunes
“Feel the blaaaade…”
Since 100% of the music I featured on my various radio shows, way back when I was a pretty fucking fabulous DJ, is on vinyl – and I haven’t owned a turntable in 20 years – iTunes has surfaced as a nothing-short-of -miraculous way for me to recreate many of my righteous playlists from the early ‘80s. And that just rules.
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Derivative Hype of The Day: Editors
Which one is Ian Curtis?
Jesus god, do these guys sound like Joy Division or what?
Worst Band Names of 2007!
That’s All Well and Good, Yes; But Where is “Bondage Death Fuck”?
Mountains of glorious thanks go out to Kirk Miller for turning me on to this fun article dissecting the Worst Band Names of 2007. “Dance Me Pregnant” is my personal favorite.
My Dinner With Blue Cheer
I Sat Next to the Guy on the Left. And yes, he still has all his hair.
When I was in college, and for a few years after I graduated, I had an amazingly progressive, eccentric and entertaining boyfriend named Mark. I met Mark when we were both DJs at the campus radio station (KUCI FM in Irvine), and we had a pretty wild ride together. I was the same elitist hipster doofus about music back then that I am today. I thought I knew absolutely everything about every band or album that was worth listening to, and if I didn’t dig it, it didn’t need to be dug. But Mark had been raised by acid-dropping hippy parents, and he was actually able to turn me on to music I was completely unfamiliar with at the time, such as the first two Alice Cooper albums, The Fugs and a power trio that were often lauded as the supposed originators of the Heavy Metal Sound, Blue Cheer.
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