Hey Kids,
What better way to get ready for Thanksgiving than with some punk-rockabilly and sexy burlesque dancers making a mess with foodstuffs?
I, for one, will be having seconds!
I, for one, will be having seconds!
Showing posts with label punk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label punk. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Friday, November 18, 2016
Masked Intruder - "Beyond a Shadow of A Doubt" (2016)
Happy Friday Friends!
Midwest punk-pop from Madison, Wisconsin.
We also like the Class of 1984 poster that makes a quick cameo in the video!
Enjoy!
Friday, October 28, 2016
The Ramones - "Pet Sematary" (1989)
Its Halloween weekend friends!
And we're getting in the trick or treating mood with this kick-ass Ramones tune which was for the soundtrack of the 1989 movie of the classic Stephen King novel.
I don't want to live my life again...
Friday, November 6, 2015
Dictators - "The Next Big Thing" (1977)
T.G.I.F Friends,
Here's some classic Dictators to help put you in the mood for the weekend!
Handsome Dick is still our favorite Dick!
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Friday, April 17, 2015
The Ramones - "Time Has Come Today" (1983)
Hey Kids,
What time is it?
Its time for The Ramones!
This cover of the Chambers Brothers' classic was released on 1983's Subterranean Jungle. Nice!
Its time for The Ramones!
This cover of the Chambers Brothers' classic was released on 1983's Subterranean Jungle. Nice!
Friday, March 27, 2015
The Dictators - "Search And Destroy" (1977)
Hello Friends,
Its almost the weekend and we feel like street walkin' cheetahs with hearts full of naplam!
Time to break things!
Enjoy this live clip featuring Handsome Dick Manitoba in his prime!
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Movie Night: Class of 1984
Hello Friends,
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its Movie Night again on Vinyl in the Valley!
Tonight we're watching the 1982 cult classic about High School kids-gone-bad, Class of 1984 and its pretty f'ing AMAZING...
Brilliantly weird & violent movie in the same vein as Warriors & Over the Edge. Class of 1984 takes place at Lincoln High, your average American high school in the early 1980's (Actually, this was filmed in Canada, but you get the gist!) Gangs of punks and thugs roam the hallways. There's metal detectors at the entrances (can you imagine?) Drugs are ingested and dealt right out in the open. Students and teachers go to school in utter and absolute fear of these drug-addled marauders!
Enter Perry King as Andrew Norris, the school's newest music teacher. He has no idea what he's in for, but he's not going to take any shit from anyone!
The film features Roddy McDowall as a jaded and disgruntled biology teacher; Timothy Van Patten as the gang's ringleader; and even a young Michael J. Fox in his first movie roll as Arthur, a do-gooder whose best friend gets hooked on heroin and plummets to his death after climbing to the top of the school's flagpole!
Directed by Mark Lester, who would later direct the Schwarzenegger-classic, Commando, and Stephen King's Firestarter, crafts a cynical, violent & dystopian not-so-distant future. The great Lalo Schifrin created a haunting, synth-heavy score and Alice Cooper even lends his talents to the movie's theme song, the awesomely-terrible, "I Am The Future" (here). L.A. punk band, Fear, contribute a couple of songs to the soundtrack as well!
They don't make them like this anymore kids! We give this one two raised cocktail glasses!
Brilliantly weird & violent movie in the same vein as Warriors & Over the Edge. Class of 1984 takes place at Lincoln High, your average American high school in the early 1980's (Actually, this was filmed in Canada, but you get the gist!) Gangs of punks and thugs roam the hallways. There's metal detectors at the entrances (can you imagine?) Drugs are ingested and dealt right out in the open. Students and teachers go to school in utter and absolute fear of these drug-addled marauders!
Enter Perry King as Andrew Norris, the school's newest music teacher. He has no idea what he's in for, but he's not going to take any shit from anyone!
The film features Roddy McDowall as a jaded and disgruntled biology teacher; Timothy Van Patten as the gang's ringleader; and even a young Michael J. Fox in his first movie roll as Arthur, a do-gooder whose best friend gets hooked on heroin and plummets to his death after climbing to the top of the school's flagpole!
Directed by Mark Lester, who would later direct the Schwarzenegger-classic, Commando, and Stephen King's Firestarter, crafts a cynical, violent & dystopian not-so-distant future. The great Lalo Schifrin created a haunting, synth-heavy score and Alice Cooper even lends his talents to the movie's theme song, the awesomely-terrible, "I Am The Future" (here). L.A. punk band, Fear, contribute a couple of songs to the soundtrack as well!
They don't make them like this anymore kids! We give this one two raised cocktail glasses!
We'll see you next time, friends, until then the Tiki Bar is closed*.
(* not really)
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Movie Night: A Band Called Death (2012)
Hello Friends,
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its Movie Night on Vinyl in the Valley!
Tonight we're watching another great documentary about a band that almost no one had ever heard of before, A Band Called Death.
The Hackneys were three black brothers growing up in Detroit in the early 70's. Being heavily influenced by Alice Cooper, The Who and Jimi Hendrix, they formed a raucous garage band and basically invented punk rock years before bands like The Ramones came along. Local record labels and radio stations were hesitant to promote a band called "Death" and producers & promoters begged them to change their name to something more marketable. Amazingly enough, they refused and they rest is rock & roll history!
The Hackneys were three black brothers growing up in Detroit in the early 70's. Being heavily influenced by Alice Cooper, The Who and Jimi Hendrix, they formed a raucous garage band and basically invented punk rock years before bands like The Ramones came along. Local record labels and radio stations were hesitant to promote a band called "Death" and producers & promoters begged them to change their name to something more marketable. Amazingly enough, they refused and they rest is rock & roll history!
The story of Death is a microcosm for the story of rock & roll: boredom and living on the fringes of society leads to immense creativity, artistry, vision and rebellion which ultimately mutates into various vices, egos, heartbreak and tragedy. Sometimes in the story's third act, if we're lucky, there's some semblance of Redemption, comeuppance or the last laughs. Its like a Shakespearean classic (if Shakespeare lived in a ghetto, played punk rock music and had dreadlocks!)
The documentary itself is pretty good, but like we said about the Big Star documentary, the actual story and people involved are so amazing that you'd really have to screw the pooch to make a movie that's not entertaining! Directors Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett do a fine job telling their story especially when taking into consideration that there wasn't a lot of archival footage of some noisy, pre-cell phone, pre-You Tube, Detroit punk band who never released an album, who never toured and who refused to change their name! DEATH!
If we had to rate it, we'd give it two enthusiastic cocktail glasses up! Cheers!
The documentary itself is pretty good, but like we said about the Big Star documentary, the actual story and people involved are so amazing that you'd really have to screw the pooch to make a movie that's not entertaining! Directors Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett do a fine job telling their story especially when taking into consideration that there wasn't a lot of archival footage of some noisy, pre-cell phone, pre-You Tube, Detroit punk band who never released an album, who never toured and who refused to change their name! DEATH!
If we had to rate it, we'd give it two enthusiastic cocktail glasses up! Cheers!
We'll see you next time, friends, until then the Tiki Bar is closed*.
(* not really)
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