It happened just the other day
Via Target Video: On Thursday, July 29, 2010 Target Video comes back to the Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax in Los Angeles! The focus is SoCal this year, but you can never tell what Joe will slip in… maybe a little SF material? Come out and support us and the Don’t Knock the Rock Festival. […]
Five for Tony O’Neill
By Andrew Stevens. “Sick city / Gonna be my death, gonna be the death of me” Lee Ranaldo once described Ray Loriga‘s My Brother’s Gun as like “the rush of an electric guitar riff charging up your spine”. Tony O’Neill‘s meth-fuelled crawl through Los Angeles’ underbelly pretty much wires your nipples to the motel mains, […]
Friday I’m in Love
“On the second floor of number 304 Above a handbag store and the heavy roar Of traffic rolling down the Holloway Road A one time bedroom housed the studio of Joe Meek Where he conjured with the sound of another world That Tin Pan Alley thought was too absurd But miles of wire and recording […]
Electronic Music as the Sound of Space
There’s an excellent essay by Ken Hollings in this month’s INTO magazine, commissioned for the Sonar festival and a history of British electronic music that includes Joe Meek [read Cathi Unsworth on Meek], Ghost Box records and (3:AM favourites) the Radiophonic Workshop, in the context of British science fiction and as bygone visions of the […]