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- The no-hit wonders that music refused to forget
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The no-hit wonders that music refused to forget
Belfast Telegraph – Mar 21, 2008
At the time though their confrontational stance and atonal drones were at odds with the peacenik hippie vibes and hallucinogenic visions emanating from the US west coast. David Bowie who namechecked them on Hunky Dory repaid his debt by producing Lou Reed’s breakthrough solo work Transformer. It was with punk and new wave late in the decade though that the Underground’s relevance was assured witnessed when the band reformed in the early Nineties to huge excitement. MC5 Originally just another Detroit garage band the Motor City Five’s manager John Sinclair nurtured their devotion to free-jazz exponents Pharoah Sanders and Sun Ra along with an interest in White Panther radical politics. They eventually became figureheads for the movement. Elektra dared to sign them in 1968 but many retailers refused to stock their debut live album with its outburst "Kick out the jams motherfuckers!". Unable to digest that lesson the Five retaliated by putting out an ad criticising a local record shop with the straightforward slogan "Fuck Hudson" and found themselves summarily dropped… While this record did earn favourable notices it failed to attract an audience so Bunyan took early retirement. The album though became a cornerstone of the folk revival inspiring the likes of Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom. The former wrote to Bunyan asking if he should continue in music. Bunyan went on to collaborate with him and Animal Collective eventually releasing her 30-year follow-up record Lookaftering while the title track from her debut was used to soundtrack an advert for a mobile phone. The Stooges To complete the triumvirate of US alternative rockers we return to Michigan and a group that made up for their lack of political nous with a gargantuan appetite for drugs and excess. Signed to the same label as the MC5 by the same A&R man the band led by Iggy Pop soon developed a reputation for reckless behaviour. While Pop wanted to redefine the blues to mirror his own experiences audiences saw a half-naked man writhe around in peanut butter.
Punk up the volume
Sacramento Bee – Mar 21, 2008
21 2008| Page 32TICKET The next couple of Fridays are all about garage days revisited. And they kick off tonight with Th’ Losin’ Streaks the local kingpins of garage-punk performing at the Java Lounge. The show also features a double dose of garage rock via the Rippers a band from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. So if you’re looking for the kind of guitar-and-drum onslaught that looks especially cool in vintage gear plus the high probability of gear getting broken this is your show. “The Rippers have never been to the States before and they’re very very popular in Europe” says Tim Foster frontman for Th’ Losin’ Streaks. “They’re definitely into that Billy Childish early Pretty Things sound where they’re playing straightforward R&B- influenced punk.
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OCRegister – Mar 21, 2008
By BEN WENER The Orange County Register Comments | Recommend J Scavo just got more good news. Seems to happen all the time these days for the general manager of MySpace Records as he monitors the rapid resurgence of his newest and biggest signing veteran act Pennywise. The day before our chat for instance he learned that “The Western World” the latest single from the long-running locally-revered punk band from Hermosa Beach debuted at No. 34 on Billboard’s Hot Modern Rock Tracks tally.