My friend and colleague Chris Tillman and her husband Joe Losurdo, working under the name Regressive Films, have collaborated on a new documentary about the history of punk rock in Chicago. Titled You Weren’t There — A History Of Chicago Punk 1977-1984, the film will have its world premiere on Saturday, November 24 at the […]
Entries Tagged as 'New Wave'
Coming in November: The History of Chicago Punk on Film
October 26th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Chicago, Culture, Film, History, Illinois, Music, New Wave, Peoria, Video
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The Bowie Video Vault: Live “‘Heroes,'” “My Death,” and “Fashion”
October 16th, 2007 · Comments Off on The Bowie Video Vault: Live “‘Heroes,'” “My Death,” and “Fashion” · Culture, Music, New Wave, Video
This is a gorgeous live version of Bowie’s “‘Heroes’” that gets better as it goes. A really nice contemporary-sounding take on the song (so good I don’t even miss the synth, which is saying something), and a very graceful performance of it by Mr. Jones. The YouTube page doesn’t say where it’s taken from — […]
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Music: Deborah Harry, “Two Times Blue”
September 7th, 2007 · Comments Off on Music: Deborah Harry, “Two Times Blue” · Culture, Music, New Wave, News, Video
From Debbie Harry’s forthcoming solo album Necessary Evil, which is due out October 9 in the US. I’m not entirely sure about the video, but I really like the song. You can hear another track from the album, “If I Had You,” on Ms. Harry’s official MySpace page.
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Review: Crowded House in Chicago, August 19, 2007, with Liam Finn
August 20th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Culture, Music, New Wave, Online Communities, Reviews, Video
Crowded Freaking House, man. Crowded Freaking House. Last night’s show here in Chicago was everything I wanted it to be, with a few very pleasant surprises along the way. In fact, the only downside to the evening was that it had to take place at the odious and uncomfortable House of Blurgggh (complete with worse […]
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The Oingo Boingo Video Vault: Gong Show, Flaming Bathtub, and an Urgh! Outtake
August 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Culture, Film, Music, New Wave, TV, Video
Via Gadget Girl, let us now thrill to this 1976 appearance by Oingo Boingo on The Gong Show, from the early part of their career when they were still called The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. With bonus Bill Bixby! (As the notes on the YouTube page point out, you might think that’s […]
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B-52’s Update: New Album, Cindy & Fred Interviews, and “Glove Slap,” Baby
August 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Culture, Music, New Wave, News, TV, Video
Yet another piece about the new B-52’s album, all recorded now with 12 shiny new songs, and just waiting for the right record deal to bring it to the public. The super-lucky-ducky writer of the piece got to sit around and listen to the new album with Cindy Wilson in her basement, and offers this […]
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Music: Catching Up to Yoko
July 24th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Chicago, Culture, Feminism, Human Rights, Journal, LGBT, Media, Music, New Wave, News, TV, Video
Something I’ve been meaning to post for a couple of weeks now … I’ve long thought that Monica Kendrick is the best music writer at the Reader and the spot-on writeup she turned in just before Yoko Ono’s appearance at the recent Pitchfork Music Festival only reinforces that notion: 9:00 Yoko Ono For decades her […]
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Roundup: Picketing Flamingo Edition
July 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Roundup: Picketing Flamingo Edition · Apple, Blogs, Chicago, Climate Change, Comics, Culture, Design, Essays, Foreign Policy, Health, HIV/AIDS, Illinois, LGBT, Music, Nature, New Wave, News, Politics, Roundup, Science, Tech, Travel
“Iraq hasn’t even begun”: Writing in the LA Times, Timothy Garton Ash, a professor of European studies at Oxford University, examines the long-term consequences of the debacle in Iraq, and concludes, “Looking back over a quarter of a century of chronicling current affairs, I cannot recall a more comprehensive and avoidable man-made disaster.” Digby on […]
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Fresh Toni Basil Salad
July 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Blogs, Culture, Music, New Wave
Funny, Rubber Nun and I were just talking about Toni Basil. Now John at Lost in the 80s has “The Ultimate Toni Basil Post.” Is he spying on us?
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Crowded House: For the World, Not for the War
July 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Crowded House: For the World, Not for the War · Culture, iTunes, Music, New Wave, News, Peace, Politics
The new Crowded House album, Time on Earth, was released last week in the US and the week before in the UK. It’s available for download from iTunes (with bonus tracks!) and of course you can get the CD from Amazon. The band will be touring through December (including their two shows here in Chicago, […]
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The Mid-70s Bowie Video Vault: David, Dick, Dinah … and a Dentist
July 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Culture, Music, New Wave, Performance, TV, Video
I think I must have died and gone to David Bowie video heaven. Prior to discovering the other videos in this post on YouTube, I had seen the clip of Bowie performing “Young Americans” on the Dick Cavett show in December of 1974, because it’s on the Best of Bowie DVD set. (I missed seeing […]
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Roundup: Cannibal Cane Toad Edition
July 9th, 2007 · Comments Off on Roundup: Cannibal Cane Toad Edition · Activism, Blogs, Comics, Culture, Education, Food, Hate Crimes, Health, Human Rights, Internet, iTunes, LGBT, Music, Nature, New Wave, News, Organic Food, Pets, Politics, Restaurants, Roundup, Science, Tech, Vegetarian & Vegan
John Conyers tells it like it T-I-Is: Conyers says Bush spared Libby from jail to keep him from singing. This is patently obvious to just about everyone, but of course the White House immediately called the charge “ridiculous and baseless.” Which allows it to join the distinguished list of other ideas the administration considers “ridiculous […]
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Music: Talk Talk, “Such a Shame”
July 4th, 2007 · Comments Off on Music: Talk Talk, “Such a Shame” · Culture, Film, Internet, iTunes, Music, New Wave, Performance, Video
I found an old posting I made to the Planet-Earthlings Yahoo Group several years ago, back when the group was new and we were talking about favorite videos from the New Wave era. Most of the ones I wrote about are up on YouTube, so I figured I’d work my way through ’em till I’ve […]
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Roundup: Still Life with Salmon Edition
June 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Apple, Comics, Culture, Education, Energy, Film, iTunes, LGBT, Macintosh, Music, Nature, New Wave, News, Peace, Pets, Politics, Roundup, Science, Tech
POLITICS: The Washington Post brings us the fascinating story of how Cheney’s quest to undermine environmental science for political purposes led to a humongous pile of rotting dead fish. “… Because of Cheney’s intervention, the government reversed itself and let the water flow in time to save the 2002 growing season, declaring that there was […]
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