Melvins: Five Legged Dog (Album Review)
At its finest, Melvins' 'Five-Legged Dog' is downright transgressive, suggesting all sorts of alternate-history narratives for these Washington-bred weirdos.
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At its finest, Melvins' 'Five-Legged Dog' is downright transgressive, suggesting all sorts of alternate-history narratives for these Washington-bred weirdos.
Rolling Stone Watch Dinosaur Jr. Perform for NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk (Home) Concert’ Band played in an empty Shea Theater By Tiny Desk (Home) Concert series, performing several tracks off their new album The band filmed the five-song clip, which was directed by Joe Salinas, in the empty Shea Theater in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. The set included three songs from Sweep It Into Space, “I Ain’t,” “Garden,” and “I Ran Away,” as well as “Feel the Pain” from 1994’s Without a Sound and “Freak Scene” from 1988’s Bug. Sweep It Into Space is the band’s fir...
Vitamin, or at least the iteration captured here that included violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist Margie Politzer (who had previously been in a better known Boston cult band called The Girls), lasted only a short time and burned out quickly, but had this material been more widely heard, they would’ve deservedly left a greater mark on the Boston post-punk scene they came out of and perhaps even the national underground music scene. The material here is that good. Included are 4 studio tracks and 9 live tracks, all among the best American no wave/post-punk material of the era, like a Bos...
Mick Jones for a proposed Alternative Press piece on punk’s original guitar heroes. Though it remains unpublished, I asked in the course of it what he thought of Rancid. Jones waxed effusive, noting he’d met the Berkeley punk traditionalists in the course of a U.S. Big Audio Dynamite tour, impressed with how hands-on and DIY they were in the running of the band, down to storyboarding their own videos. I smirked. “You’re being considerably generous, considering many cynics think Rancid should be named to Give ‘Em Enough Rope: A Tribute To The Clash,” I quipped. “It doesn’t mat...
Redd Kross History and Biography Redd Kross are a Californian rock outfit started by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald in the very early 1980s. The group enjoyed a 15 year career in the music industry from the '80s right through to 1997, releasing six albums before their initial split. Now consisting of Jeff, Steve, Robert Hecker and Roy McDonald, Redd Kross released their latest album, 'Beyond The Door', in 2019. Redd Kross have rescheduled their UK tour to April and May 2021 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Catch them live by checking out the tour dates and concert ticket informatio...