"A hard-core 78 rpm fiend, Joe Bussard has spent a lifetime pursuing rare surviving examples of early 20th century American music. His private archive contains more than 25,000 obscure recordings from the golden age of old-time music. Now he shares it with the world through custom-made tapes and pre-recorded CD's of his vintage 78s." Check out Joe's website.

Mia Dime and Nicole Morier, also known as the red hot Electrocute, finally have a record out and it was about time. It's called "A tribute to your taste" and it's out on Emperor Norton Records where you can also find some MP3s and a nice press-info written by the guy who occupies my living-room with lots of boxes full of books and Godzilla-toys.

Review of a show at Kaffee Burger over at the Dorfdisco.

"Years ago, Lou Reed was playing live in London, and a girl near the front screamed up at him, "I love you, Lou!"

And he smiled. Lou Reed smiled. He looked down at her and he smiled and said, "I love you too, little darlin'. Why the hell else do you think I'm still doing this after all these years?"

Yeah."

Quoted from diepunyhumans.com, Warren Ellis' weblog

"Punk arseholes against Bush CMU reports on punkers banding together against the President. Yeah great, a bunch of ignorant morons bleating on about stuff they have no idea about. This should be fun to watch.

Rock The Vote - but with a political agenda - we like it! Good Charlotte, Pennywise, Green Day, NOFX , Alkaline Trio and Sum 41 have all agreed to participate in a new compilation album called 'Rock Against Bush'. Organised by NOFX singer Fat Mike, who owns independent label Fat Wreck Chords, the album will try to encourage the punk community to take an interest in politics, and more importantly to use their vote against the Bush administration. The album will be accompanied by a number of live shows immediately after its release, and in the lead up to the election itself.

Fat Mike: "About a year ago I decided to use my influence to get bands together to speak out about the president. I think it's our responsibility as citizens and musicians to do so. He's wrecking the country and the world. He's starting wars for no reason, our economy is in the toilet, he's ruining the environment, and he does things like cut taxes when we need money. We're trying to build a coalition of kids 18 to 25. We want punks and other disenfranchised young people to vote as a block, which no one has ever done before. Kids are the biggest group of people that don't vote. We want to change that."

Mike admits that the name 'Rock Against Bush' might cause opposition at some colleges and radio stations and that a name change may be required. "Certain colleges won't advertise it as Rock Against Bush, and a lot of radio stations won't mention the name either. So we may just call it the Punkvoter tour or something, but to us it will always be Rock Against Bush."

Quoted from Dodgeblogium

When ASCII met MIDI they decided to play some Heavy Metal and shoot a few videos. Aargh, the pain!

The Cramps will rock the SO36 in Berlin on Sept. the 19th and the guys next door thought it would be a good idea to do a Comic-All-hail-the-mighty-Cramps-exihibition which will open the same night at 8 p.m. (artists and location below)

Am 19. September spielen The Cramps, die amerikanische Punk'n'Roll-Legende, im Kreuzberger SO 36. Zu diesem Ereignis eröffnet die Galerie Knoth & Krüger am gleichen Abend eine Ausstellung mit Arbeiten zu den Cramps. Mit dabei sind unter anderen Andreas Michalke, Danny Winkler, Jörg Buttgereit und Reinhard Kleist.

Ausstellung: «THINGS THE CRAMPS TAUGHT US». Galerie Knoth & Krüger, Oranienstr. 188, 10999 Berlin. 19.9.-10.10.2003. /Vernissage am Freitag, 19.09.03 um 20.00 Uhr

Congratulations, honey! "Latin Lovers" reached #1 in the Dutch's dance charts!!! The full length album featuring MONIKA KRUSE at VOODOOAMT aka PATRICK LINDSEY will be called "Passengers". It's scheduled for October 2003 and it's gonna be a killer.

Fan facts: Monika isn't just the most beautiful woman in techno, she's also one mean killer at playing "Risk".

You want the best? You got the best! The hottest cover-band in the world: Mini-Kiss. And if that aint enough, you might wanna go and see the king. -found at boingboing.

"Don't be the last hobbit in the shire to wake up to this shit, download it now!" Dig da Lords of the rhymes

"Fake punks. What the hell’s that all about then? Avril Lavigne, repeat after me: “I am not punk. I am a corporate whore invented by some shit in a suit trying to add a bit of white-skinned teenage rebellion into bland popular music.” Or if that’s too long for you, just try “I’m shite. Sorry.”

Taken from Scary Duck's entry on Monday, August 04, 2003

The leftovers of Queen and Ben Elton wrote a musical. Isn't that nice? Here's the official info:

"The time is the future, in a place that was once called Earth. Globalisation is complete!

Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts.

It's a safe, happy, Ga Ga world. Unless you're a rebel. Unless you want to Rock. On Planet Mall all musical instruments are banned. The Company Computers generate the tunes and everybody downloads them. It is an age of Boy Bands and of Girl Bands. Of Boy and Girl Bands. Of Girl Bands with a couple of boys in them that look like girls anyway. Nothing is left to chance, hits are scheduled years in advance.

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

But Resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when the kids formed their own bands and wrote their own songs. They call that time, The Rhapsody.

Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see

Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe and draw it from stone."

Then go to this website and check out the picture for "We will rock you". What's that woman doing beetween the guy's legs? Why is everyone looking somewhere else? Ga Ga?

Adam Ant has shot a documentary about himself which was aired on C4 in July. There is no new record to sell or any other marketing-sheme behind it. Basically he's talking about his manic depression, I heard. Did anyone tape this? Fuck, I loved Adam and the Ants when I was a kid.

"Adam Ant was an '80s icon, one of the decade's biggest stars. He sold records by the million, adorned thousands of bedroom walls and hundreds of magazine covers. But he was also plagued by mental illness, fighting a daily battle against demons that threatened to overwhelm him, and even take his life. With the full and exclusive co-operation of Adam Ant and some of his closest friends and mentors, this film tells the inside story of a thrilling, chaotic, turbulent and troubled life. It is a life that has seen the highs of No.1 hits, and the lows of obsessive stalkers and terrifying depressive episodes.

It is also a life that famously reached its nadir in 2002, when Adam Ant was arrested following an incident in a London pub. In this remarkably frank portrait, Adam reflects on his glory days, his spectacular fall from grace, and the depression that's haunted him for more than 30 years."

taken from adam-ant.net.
more about the film.

adam-ant.net.

Visit the incredible Mr.Quintron on the web if you haven't yet. And if you get a chance to see him or his wife Miss Pussycat and her world famous puppet band, Flossie and the Unicorns, go there.

Great portal with cool links to incredibly strange music.

"4 Star Trek bands + 2 goofballs + 1 Star Trek Karaoke + you in a sci fi costume = Geekfest 2003."

They're shooting the sequel to Trekkies and it features No kill l, the legendary klingonpunks from Sacramento. How can you rock with all that make-up?

Klingon-karaoke, what next...? Here's a slideshow from the show which can also be seen in the movie.

Retrocrush got a nice exclusive Interview with Randy Jones from The Village People

Dear Rodney, you have to see this. It's flashy, fast and very funny!

You must have seen those sockheads sifl-n-olly on MTV and maybe you've also heard of that great fake-album by Liam Lynch. Well, check out the lyrics down there, download a free MP3 of "United States of Whatever" and sing along. This is the hit of the summer, dudes!

You may also download a free MP3 of the Bush Parody-version of "United States of Whatever" over here!

Whatever

I went down to the beach and saw Kiki, She was all like, eehhhh, And I'm like, WHATEVAH!

And then this chick comes up to me, and she's all like, hey, aren't you that dude, And I'm like, yeah, WHATEVAH!

So later, I'm at the poolhall And this girl comes up and she's all like, awww, And I'm like, yeah, WHATEVAH!

Cuz this is my United States of Whatever And this is my United States of Whatever And this is my United States of Whatever

And then it's 3 AM, I'm on the corner wearin my leather, This dude comes up to me and says, Hey Punk! And I'm like, yeah, WHATEVAH!

Then I'm throwin' dice in the alley Officer Leroy comes up and he's like, hey I thought I told you.. And I'm like, WHATEVAH!

And up comes Zafo, and I'm like Yo! Zafo, whassup? And he's like, Nuthin. And I'm like, that's cool.....

Cuz this is my United States of Whatever And this is my United States of Whatever