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To celebrate the release of the new Runaways biopic (which looks AWESOME), The Walrus is giving away “The Runaways Movie Lover” Prize Pack to one lucky commenter. The sweet prize pack includes:
(1) Official Branded “Cherry Bomb” T-Shirt
(1) Official “The Runaways” Button Pin
(1) Official “The Runaways” Guitar Pick
(1) Official Full-Size Cherry Bomb Poster
(1) Official “The Runaways” Movie Soundtrack
TO ENTER: Simply post the name of your favorite member of The Runaways in the comments(be sure to include a valid e-mail address before submitting a comment.).
Contest ends on Friday, 3/19 and I will choose a random winner on Monday 3/22
***Note: Winner must be in the US and have a non PO box shipping address and prize must be claimed within 14 days of contest launch.
Moon Duo’s “Killing Time” is a dark and brooding mix of My Bloody Valentine and Suicide and their new video for the song is beautifully stark. Have a look.
Over the weekend I watched 30 Century Man, an amazing documentary about the elusive American musician Scott Walker (real name Scott Engel), who before his run of challenging solo work was a part of the ’60s band The Walker Brothers. The group, none of whom were brothers nor named Walker, were based in California and had a sound reminiscent of the Everly Brothers — due to Scott’s deep, crooning voice. Relatively unknown in the States, the band was HUGE in Britain, nearly reaching the heights of the Stones or even The Beatles. Strangely, despite all their success, they went on a 10 year hiatus after 1967.
The Walker Brothers music in the ’60s was gloomy, beautiful and somewhat digestible. However, their official 1978 comeback album Nite Flights turned out to be a horse of a different color. The first four tracks, penned by Scott (the rest by the other members and not as memorable) were definitely more weird and way ahead of their time, akin to The Talking Heads and Eno-era Bowie. Have a listen to the awesome lead-off track “Shutout”:
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And tonight should be just as nice, so why not make it more pleasant by checking out a FREE live show from the multi-talented Matias Aguayo @ SNACKS (Facebook event page).
I caught this on Dangerous Minds this weekend and wasted no time in watching it. It’s an interesting, and sometimes hard to understand (heavy heavy accents) peek into this Northern British music subculture in the ’70s, known as Northern Soul, which centered around obscure American Soul. For those in Philly who attend the ongoing Turnaround/Immediate/Ten Commandments parties, this was where it all started.
Solid Space – “A Darkness In My Soul”
Cosmetics – “Soft Skin”
Led Er Est – “Laredo’
Xynn – “Isolated Brain”
Dark Day – “Hands in the Dark”
Land of Giants – “Cannibal Dolls”
White Car – “Not Right”
Portishead – “Chase the Tear”
Fan Death – “Reunited”
Coldreams – “Morning Rain”
Active Child – “Wilderness”
Talk Normal – “In a Strangeland”
Fontan – “Early Morning”
Tantra – “The Hills of Katmandu”
New Orleans band Generationals performed two songs at the Philly store — including this gem of a pop song. Snag a free mp3 of the studio version below.
American figure skater Scott Williams doesn’t go for the gold…he goes for the grunge…as he figure skates to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. In the immortal words of the brilliant and beautiful Atousa Farahani…this is “Punk as fuck.”
