This morning, while Linette and Clementine were out running errands, Arlo and I spent a little time cleaning up his bedroom. And, because he’s too young to know of any music that isn’t my music, we listened to Wire’s Pink Flag and The Velvet Underground & Nico. For the post part he just sat and […]
By Mark | January 26, 2015
Almost a year ago now, I received an email from a reader of this site by the name of Bob Nolan, who, knowing of my love for the Ramones and Stooges, suggested that I talk with a friend of his named Brendan Toller. Brendan, he told me, had been working on a film about Danny […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Detroit, History | Also tagged 16 Magazine, A Day In The Life, acid, Andy Warhol, animation, archives, bible belt, Bob Nolan, Bob Rudnick, Boswell, Brendan Toller, Brian Epstein, Brooks Brothers, butts, CBGB, Christmas cards, crowdfunding, Danny Fields, Danny Says, Datebook, David Bowie, Dennis Frawley, documentary film, Dolly Parton, Edie Sedgwick, Elektra, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Fred Sonic Smith, Funhouse, Harvard, Harvard Law, Hedwig, I Need That Record, Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop, Jesus, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Judy Collins, Kickstarter, LBJ, Lenny Bruce, Linda Stein, Lou Reed, Mark's big ideas, Max's Kansas City, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, MC5, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, New York City, Nico, Paul McCartney, public relations, punk rock, Ramones, Rock and Roll, Rodney Bingenheimer, San Remo, Search and Destroy, Seymour Stein, slacks, Stooges, The Beatles, The Doors, the music business, The Stooges, Timothy Leary, Tommy Goodwin, WFMU, Yale, Yale University, Younger Jewish Set |
By Mark | August 31, 2014
I had the opportunity a few days ago to speak briefly with John Doe of the legendary Los Angeles punk band X. Doe, along with his bandmates Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, DJ Bonebrake, after making their way thorugh Chicago in early September, will be playing two dates in Michingan… September 6 at The Magic Bag […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1976, 1977, acting, Amiee Mann, Andy Warhol, Antioch, astroturf, Baltimore, Beat poets, Bertha's, Billy Zoom, Black Randy and the MetroSquad, Brendan Mullen, CBGB, Chuck Berry, conspiracy theories, DJ Bonebrake, Eddie Cochran, Exene Cervenka, Harry Dean Stanton, ISIS, Joe Henry, John Doe, John Waters, Los Angeles, Loudon Wainwright, mass media, Max's Kansas City, nihilism, Patrick Swayze, Patti Smith, Penelope Spheeris, Pleased to Meet Me, punk, punk rock, Roadhouse, sensationalism, Slash, songwriting, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Talking Heads, Tennessee Williams, The Alley Cats, The Bags, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Go-Go’s, The Masque, The Plugz, The Weirdos, underground press, Venice Beach, violence, We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, X, X: The Unheard Music, Ypsi Song Fest, Ypsilanti District Library |
By Mark | December 9, 2013
If you’re a young American celebrity rumored to have a serious heroin addiction, it may not be the best idea in the world to start a Velvet Underground cover band. That, however, is apparently what actor Macaulay Culkin has done. Gathering together a number of musicians from the New York anti-folk scene, the actor has […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-folk, Austin Kilham, Deenah Vollmer, folk, glockenspiel, heroin, Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin, Mila Kunis, music, National Enquirer, Phoebe Kreutz, pizza, Pizza Underground |
By Mark | October 27, 2013
Rolling Stone is reporting that Velvet Underground founder and rock-n-roll icon Lou Reed has died at the age of 71, some five months after undergoing a liver transplant. Here’s a clip: …”Produced” by Warhol and met with total commercial indifference when it was released in early 1967, VU’s debut The Velvet Underground & Nico stands […]
