American Dreamer

Alan Vega live in Madrid 1983

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Gun Club 2

Phantom of the Radio is Right. (Maybe because he was born Toulouse)

I too have been listening to The Gun Club for the last 2 weeks. It must be some kind of PCL mojo.

Jeffrey Lee Pierce was better than Dylan:

In New Orleans at the Mardi Gras
I was dancin' in a costume made of straw
some creole boy was a-lying dead
I used his blood to paint my costume red
a-black and white, I will abandon brain
for your nerves in hand and a ball of string
the marshes are sinking in a bright red sky
and you will make love to me tonight
-Jack on Fire from Fire of Love

Go read P of the R's post over again. I hereby command ye.
But first a taste:

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The Gun Club

Two excellent albums of The Gun Club a post-punk band led by Jeffrey Lee Pierce available in mp3 at lunchmeataphobia.

Alternative garage rock, blues, country, punk... don't miss their debut album Fire Of Love from 1981. A true unique sound that will influence later number of rock bands around the world.

Ask the Punk Professor

"I am the Professor of Punk, and not only because I teach a course, Classic Punk & Beyond, at the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Back in the day, as Features Editor of the scrappy punk-rock weekly, Sounds, I was there to track punk's frenetic development. Pistols, Clash and Pretenders, DJ Don Letts, Dennis Brown and various Wailers all partied at my place in London's Ladbroke Grove, and on transatlantic trips, I dropped in on the Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie and Patti Smith.

This is what I learned in my Punk life class. You have to start doing what you believe in some time, so why not now? And play each gig, teach each class, write each blog, like it was your first - and last. That's punk."

So it is laid down in the opening post on Vivien Goldman's bi-weekly column on the BBC America website, called "Ask the Punk Professor"
Vivien Goldman - Launderette,

(Thanks to Rachel B. Doyle)

The Cartoonist talks to Githead

The Cartoonist talks to Colin Newman and Malka Spigel of Githead.

Part #1. and Part #2. (Part #3, will follow next weekend)

Updated: Part 3 online now.

Sex Beat

The Gun Club - Sex Beat (Live):

Added by Stag

Uhh ... You KNOW!

Tav Falco's Panther Burns - "She's The One That Got It"

Live Madrid 1988. Video clip added by blob83000