“My whole life, I’ve always wanted to be un-hecklable, you know? …I remember staring into GBH [record] covers, Exploited covers, Black Flag covers and just thinking, ‘Go for it, man…’ You know, getting that feeling in your stomach when you leave a first date… I’m just looking for that. I hope I can give that to somebody, somewhere.”
- Josh Homme, NME interview, Paris Read more »
Jeff Hanneman’s obituary, as published in ‘The Guardian’. A suitably loquacious obit about the lion’s share of the creative brains that will drive Slayer into the pantheon of rock and roll greats.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/may/03/jeff-hanneman-slayer
Jeff Hanneman, guitarist of the magnificent, soaring, crushing, excoriating speed metal band Slayer, has died aged 49.
One of the high points of my kickboxing career was walking out to the song ‘Dissident Aggressor’ from South of Heaven.
I trained to it this morning.
NME have celebrated their 60th birthday by compiling a list of the 100 greatest tracks of the magazine’s lifetime. Read more »
The Gaslight Anthem’s new album, ‘Handwritten’, is on the way. In the interim, we have the new single, “45″.
Sometimes, I imagine that if I could open my heart, it would sound like this; passionate, lyrical, and full of crunch and grind.
(Click on the link, dummy).
“Brothers and sisters, I wanna see a sea of hands out there; let me see a sea of hands. I want everybody to kick up some noise; I want to hear some revolution out there brothers, I wanna hear a little revolution. Brothers and sisters, the time has come for each and every one of you to decide whether you are gonna be the problem or whether you are gonna be the solution. You must choose brothers, you must choose. It takes five seconds; five seconds of decision, five seconds to realize your purpose here on the planet. It takes five seconds to realize that it’s time to move, it’s time to get down with it. Brothers, it’s time to testify and I want to know, are you ready to testify? Are you ready? I give you a testimonial …”
J. C. Crawford’s barn-burning intro to the MC5’s “Ramblin’ Rose”.
“Caravaggio was like a right-angle in the history of art; things were one way before him, and completely different after.”
- Quotation taken from the NGV’s ‘Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and his World’ exhibition of 2004, where it was stencilled on a wall at the conclusion. Your author paraphrases Robert Hughes from memory. Read more »
…as if we didn’t know.
“You don’t call her fat; now that girl is stacked! A come ON!”
Mr Saadiq (formerly Mr Charles Ray Wiggins of Tony Tony Tone, no less) has emerged with what might be the song of the year. The sound, the voice, the lyrics, the girl; it’s all there.
A come ON!
