In 1980, disco music was dead to rights and on its way out. There was no fresh and inventive take on the dance music genre, having been polarized by popular culture, a new wave of conservatism, and a generation recovering from the effects of their exploration into the darker edges of sexual freedom and drugs. Crack cocaine didn't exist, there was no internet, cell phones were unthought of, and only a couple of years before had the home computer market begun to explode with the introduction of the Apple II+ computer. While American performers shyed away from ...
In 1978, French producers Bernard Fevre and Jackie Giordano donned false names and holed up in a studio outside Paris to create the six songs on the EP known to the world of music as Black Devil Disco Club, an epic electronic disco record of tribal rhythms and chants which offered listeners a compelling walk into the seedy, sleazy catacombs of disco music.
Though history tends to associate disco with "Good Times", disco music in its heyday was in many ways meant to be adult-oriented music of unbridled pleasure and lust. The naked sexuality of the musical style was ...
Here's a series of short clips which you'll probably like if you love Wolfmother. This is apparently from the Jackass: Number Two fine feature film.
"Wolfmother Jackass Crew":
"Hallway Crash Clip:
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Hopefully, you know about the wonderful American Princes from Little Rock and their Yep Roc release Less And Less. They put on a great show at Midwest Music Summit 2006, and here now is a video of sorts done by Matt Bradley. What's cool -- it's all hand-drawn with pen and ink.
Joe from Each Note SecureOtis Gibbs, and Me at the2006 Midwest Music Summit
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When I sat and listened to Otis Gibbs at The Jazz Kitchen on Friday night, I began to feel like all of my cares had been wiped completely away. It seemed like Otis had been down all of the roads the world-weary among us feared to trudge and reflected his experience through his songwriting in ways only those with names like Steve Earle, Jay Farrar and Billy Bragg have done. He's the working ...
Ryan, Miguel, and Georgeof Catfish Havenwith yours truly
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Among the great bands I caught at the Midwest Music Summit were this three-piece from Chicago called Catfish Haven. Fresh off an appearance at Lollapalooza '06, they are set to release their full-length record Tell Me on Secretly Canadian in the next few weeks. Rife with bluesy, dirty, rootsy rock-and-roll and power-pop gems, Tell Me is a natural extension of the prowess demonstrated on their widely-praised EP Please Come Back. Check out this demo of "Please Come ...
Me and Mickey Avalon, aka "The Sickest White Rapper In The Fucking World"
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"What's up, motherfucker?" Clell Tickle's right-hand man Hambone himself could not better utter this simple phrase which summarizes the 2006 MMS. It is without a doubt the best kept secret in music festivals in the United States. The Midwest Music Summit has been around since 2000 and has finally come into its own with its blend of indie rock, hip-hop and all around support for the music movements happening in the ...
Columbia Records ought to keep pinching themselves for being so lucky as to have Persephone's Bees on their label. We might have to keep pinching ourselves for being so lucky as to have this video for the song "Paper Plane". Sigh....
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