punk

The Outsiders: Misfit (1968)

2014/09/16

The Outsiders Years before the MC5 or the Stooges planted the seeds of American proto-punk, and a couple of years after the Sonics and the Monks helped create garage rock, a couple of Dutch boys had already created music that went beyond proto-anything and issued a heavy statement defying any type of categorization. Helmed by…
Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers: Roadrunner (1972) and That Summer Feeling (1983)

2014/08/06

Jonathan Richman, doing himself. This is where we get to the more esoteric part of my driving playlist. God bless one of our national musical treasures, Jonathan Richman. Perpetually, the standard bearer for Velvet Underground-worship and sometimes overly-earnest naive wisdom, no one could quite touch the noggin, the heart, and sometimes the funny bone, quite…
La Düsseldorf: Rheinita (1979)

2014/07/19

Here’s one last piece. There’s always something evocative about watching grainy videos. Your eyes want to fill in the spaces light should occupy. How much more evocative can it get than watching the only video of a band like La Düsseldorf playing, in this case “Rheinita” off their Viva album. This was a band trying to project…