OLIVIA OYL

“The strange thing is, while the crack screwed me up in a lot...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:53:00 +0100

“The strange thing is, while the crack screwed me up in a lot of ways, it improved me in certain others. I’ve never been good with numbers, but when I was on crack I could do math really, really well. I became a fucking whiz at calculus.”  

Courtney Love

The Fix released an e-book about Courtney and her recovery process… full of candid gems like this one.

check it out

Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart. “It was darn nigh...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:09:00 +0100

Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart.

“It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the ’70s. There wasn’t a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the ’70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.”

Ann Wison

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theniftyfifties: Joan Collins

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:51:30 +0100

theniftyfifties:

Joan Collins

“Divine. That’s my name. It’s the name...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:33:15 +0100

“Divine. That’s my name. It’s the name John [Waters] gave me. I like it. That’s what everybody calls me now, even my close friends. Not many of them call me Glenn at all anymore, which I don’t mind. They can call me whatever they want. They call me fatso, and they call me asshole, and I don’t care. You always change your name when you’re in the show business. Divine has stuck as my name. Did you ever look it up in the dictionary? I won’t even go into it. It’s unbelievable.”

Divine (1973)

The Ramones on EUGTV in 1978, on Efrom Allen’s...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:30:47 +0100

The Ramones on EUGTV in 1978, on Efrom Allen’s Underground TV show.

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Futurisk. 80’s synthpunk from South Florida. Minimal Wave...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:22:49 +0100

Futurisk.

80’s synthpunk from South Florida. Minimal Wave records has put out a retrospective of this grossly underappreciated group.. buy it if you can!!

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Futurisk - Meteoright (1982)

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:14:23 +0100

Futurisk - Meteoright (1982)

Johnny Boy xxx

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:00:15 +0100

Johnny Boy

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Bad Weather California - America Excerpt taken from their...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:53:00 +0100

Bad Weather California - America

Excerpt taken from their website badweathercalifornia.com

But NO. Here’s how we see it:

A punk band that doesn’t sound like one. A sound track to a made up movie about the summer you spent skateboarding, discovering drugs, going to the beach, falling in love… This is American music. Drawing on The Velvet Underground, John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band to the Minutemen and Black Flag, Bad Weather California is both timeless and classic yet forward-thinking and modern.

“The songs should write themselves. The performances should look easy… As a kid, I used to have this intense nervous feeling when I would go watch punk bands play. Like anything might go down. Like it was unstable. I’m looking for that again. Striving for it,” explains guitarist/singer Chris BWC

badweathercalifornia.com

love it xxx

Playing with Tommaso at Cuore in Milano. :) xxx

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:53:00 +0100

Playing with Tommaso at Cuore in Milano. :)

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jennilee: amart’s mixtapes are my favorite HE CRIED | HAMBURGER...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:14:38 +0100

jennilee:

amart’s mixtapes are my favorite

HE CRIED | HAMBURGER EYES

artwork: alana celii

Funky Stuff - Lizzy Mercier Descloux

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:11:36 +0100

Funky Stuff - Lizzy Mercier Descloux

Lizzy Mercier Descloux

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:06:00 +0100

Lizzy Mercier Descloux

sexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxy Chairman Of The Board-Life + Death

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:54:11 +0100

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Chairman Of The Board-Life + Death

Wendy O. Williams May 28, 1949 – April 6, 1998 The “Queen...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:52:00 +0100

Wendy O. Williams

May 28, 1949 – April 6, 1998

The “Queen of Shock Rock” as the lead singer of the punk band Plasmatics before going solo with great success. She liked to blow shit up on stage, attack cops, and get naked. She was also a raging animal rights activist.

Following excerpts from Wikipedia…..

Early life

Williams was born in Webster, New York. She attended R.L. Thomas (public) High School in Webster at least partway through the tenth grade, but apparently left school before graduating. At the age of 16, she hitchhiked her way to Colorado where she earned money selling crocheted string bikinis. She headed for Florida and then to Europe, where she worked as a macrobiotic cook in London and then as a dancer with a gypsy dance troupe. In 1976 she arrived at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City where she saw an ad in Show Business Magazine that lay open on the bus station floor. It was a casting call for radical anti-artist and Yale MFA graduate Rod Swenson’s experimental “Captain Kink’s Theatre”. She replied to the ad and there was immediate chemistry between Swenson, known as Captain Kink, and Williams, which began a 22-year relationship that would see her launched as lead singer of the punk/metal rock group the Plasmatics some two years later.

Solo career

In 1979 she appeared in Gail Palmer’s XXX-rated adult production, Candy Goes to Hollywood playing herself (though she is credited as Wendy Williams). She is featured as a performer on a parody of The Gong Show where she shoots ping pong balls across the set from her vagina.

Wendy recorded a duet of the country hit “Stand by Your Man” with Lemmy Killmister of Motörhead in 1982.

In 1984, she released the W.O.W. album, produced by Gene Simmons of Kiss. Kiss members Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, Eric Carr, and Vinnie Vincent also perform on the album.

Retirement

In 1991, Williams moved to Storrs, Connecticut, where she lived with her long-time companion and former manager, Rod Swenson, and worked as an animal rehabilitator and at a health food store in Manchester.^{[citation needed]}She explained this move by saying that she “was pretty fed up dealing with people.”

Despite her reputation as a fearsome performer, Williams in her personal life was deeply devoted to the welfare of animals, a passion that included a vegetarian diet, working as a wildlife rehabilitator and being a natural foods activist. In one TV talk show appearance on KPIX’s The Morning Show, she accused Debbi Fields (of “Mrs. Fields” cookies) of being “no better than a heroin pusher” for using so much processed white sugar in her products.

Death

Williams had first attempted suicide in 1993 by hammering a knife into her chest; the knife lodged in her sternum and she changed her mind, calling Swenson to take her to hospital. She attempted suicide again in 1997 with an overdose of ephedrine.

Williams died at age 48 on April 6, 1998 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a wooded area near her home. While some argued that rather than compromise her art, she committed suicide, Swenson reportedly described her as “despondent” at the time of her death. This is what she is said to have written in a suicide note regarding her decision:

“I don’t believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights that anyone in a free society should have. For me, much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and a place where there is no self, only calm.”

Gene Simmons, Joey Ramone, and many others issued statements on her achievement at the time of her death. On Motörhead’s 1999 live album Everything Louder Than Everyone Else, before the song “No Class”, Motörhead vocalist Lemmy said that he wanted to dedicate this song officially to her.

A memorial was held at CBGB on May 18. Several of Wendy’s former Plasmatics co-members (Chosei Funahara, Richie Stotts, Wes Beech, Stu Deutsch, Jean Beauvoir and possibly TC Tolliver) played a six-song set with four of them handling the vocals.

Bo Diddley — Mona - 1957

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:46:11 +0100

Bo Diddley — Mona - 1957

sexy music***

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:20:00 +0100

sexy music***

Better Than Something: Jay Reatard (Trailer)

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:12:29 +0100

Better Than Something: Jay Reatard (Trailer)

Jay Reatard (Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr.) May 1, 1980 – January 13,...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:11:35 +0100

Jay Reatard (Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr.)

May 1, 1980 – January 13, 2010

R.I.P.

Untimely death for a dude with immense talent. It’s so sad. Really looking forward to watching the Documentary Better Than Something. For updates check out the doc’s website betterthansomething.com

Jay Reatard - What’s In My Bag?

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:56:38 +0100

Jay Reatard - What’s In My Bag?