Song of the day – 564: Primitive Motion
Immolation and insulation and isolation and imagination. The opposite of sex. Serious music for serious people.
You can’t judge a book by its cover. Or an album. Or can you?
girl punk; electronic; 60s girl group; teenage schoolgirls; something to do with the beach; grunge; surf pop; surfer punk; late 70s/early 80s DIY post-punk
YouTube links for KMB003 (Sex Drugs Rock N Roll) lecture, semester 1 2013, week 4
This week should also have focused on sexuality, but as ever I became diverted.
A review of ‘Comedown Machine’ by The Strokes based only on the front cover
Their music is supermarket fodder, created with precisely the same love and attention to detail as a pack of frozen peas
Jason Molina R.I.P.
This is the cold moonlight, the guitar picking out gentle beauty amid the red sky’s forked lightning.
Why would anyone want to hate the best rock band to come out of Australia in decades?
Why do music fans have to be so reductionist. Does everyone HAVE to think the same way?
Song of the day – 563: The Drones
Regret and defiance and wit will only get you so far. As will the melancholy blues, baby.
Song of the day – 562: Nicki Minaj
More hardcore than Throbbing Gristle, more extreme than most ‘extreme’ punk hardcore and metal hardcore I’ve heard
Song of the day – 561: Dial
Have a listen. Go on. FUCKING LISTEN. A feral epiphany right here in your fucking underwear. A dissonant surge.
YouTube links for KMB003 (Sex Drugs Rock N Roll) lecture, semester 1 2013, week 3
This week it was all about yr Beyonce and yr Nicki Minaj and yr Jimi Hendrix.
