Heavy Metal Parking Lot
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HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT is considered one of the greatest rock & roll movies of all time, although it’s actually a hilarious documentary tribute to rock & roll’s GREATEST FANS. Filmed in 1986 at a Maryland concert arena parking lot before a heavy metal show, HMPL is an unvarnished anthropological study […]

Over in Josie and The Pussycats, the writers tried to split the Manichean difference with stories engineered to cash in on the popcult explosion of interest in all things occult (engendered by the runaway success of The Exorcist, among other things) while retaining a state of proper Christian grace. The whole teen rock band concept […]

Stephen Malkmus and the JicksUploaded by lablogotheque

Harp Magazine article

Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl on FunnyOrDie.com

Everything surrounding “Once” which I wrote about back in July.
“Falling Slowly”

On the musical commentary section of the DVD the director compares this song to the sexual dance of foreplay and consumation, The first chorus is the first kiss. By the end of the song they are “****ing like animals”. An odd assessment given the chaste […]

Twenty years ago The Cowboy Junkies recorded “The Trinity Sessions” in Toronto, ON. One microphone, direct to tape - the atmospheric vocals and sparse instrumentation were the perfect setting for Margo’s voice and the low moan of the guitars.
Earlier in the summer 1987 I met M. and R. in Salzburg, Austria at a hostel […]

funny or not?

Andy Kaufman Trusted You on FunnyOrDie.com
- via kottke.org

Full list and samples at the NPR website
Dig the CD Cover from “The Candy Band” . . .

(thanks OBC)

Via Doctor Mooney’s 115th Dream comes The Rosewood Thieves.

Think of their first EP From The Decker House as a mix of The White Album ‘n Harvest. But on their second EP Lonesome the band has taken a slightly more adventurous route and sounds like it belongs down ‘round the bend on Nashville’s Music Row, an […]