Have you heard their previous albums?
My recent obsession caused me to download all I could get off their subpop page - two tracks from
Fuckin A
and
one from
More Parts Per Million.
I really like everything I've heard and need to buy the albums. Though nothing could possibly be as catchy as "No Culture Icons."
The vocals on the new album remind me of John Darnielle a bit actually - a friend who is a big Mountain Goats fan initially sent me the link for the video because he saw a similarity.
I am going back to KC this weekend and cannot wait to browse through my much-missed record stores in Lawrence and KC.
The Gang of Four's drummer now teaches at the Art Institute of Boston, btw.
Found out the other day that Steve Mallinder, former lead singer of Cabaret Voltaire, is now a Uni lecturer in Australia.
Has anyone not mentioned the passing of CBGB? Seems a real shame that it has to go.
Has anyone not mentioned the passing of CBGB? Seems a real shame that it has to go.
I think there's some exhaustion with the prolonged death march, plus they haven't really been a cultural force for a long time.
But I will always remember being in college during those aformentioned '79-'83 years and reading the Village Voice at the library and drooling over the CBGBs schedules back then.
What's a mudd club?
It was the rock and roll disco downtown. They only played danceable R&R.
Mudd club is at the top.
The CBGBs closing has been talked to death, at least locally, and many other clubs have shuttered without somehow preventing the 1970s from happening.
I never went to the Mudd Club in the early eighties. But I did go to Danceteria, The Ritz and the Peppermint Lounge.
The most interesting thing about the CBGB closing (other than Trudy and Victor got to go) was simply that it marked the last in a long line of famous clubs closing in NY. I read an article that detailed their rise and fall, and how some of them tried to survive and others couldn't. Sad and interesting.
