Recent Damage on CD

Electronic Get the Message

WORD Now Here This! November 2008

UNCUT Best of 2008

King Crimson KCCC #9 Live at Summit Studios, Denver

King Crimson KCCC #29 Live in Heidelberg

Complete Motown Singles Volumn 7



Electronic Getting Away With It

Forrest J Ackerman is dead

Bruce Weber wrote this great obit in the New York Times. Famous Monsters of Filmland was a great way into the Universal movies of the 1930s as well as some great 50s bad sci-fi. He was a true Hollywood character.

Recent Damage on CD

Mamma Mia! OST The Deluxe Album
New Order Movement (Deluxe)
New Order Technique (Deluxe)
Young Franksenstein OBC
Various Heavy Mod (MOJO Magazine January 2009)
Cliff Richard 1980s
Pete Townshend Virtual Reality (Disc One from the Psychoderelict concert)
Smashing Pumpkins Machina (The Machines of God)
Chris Spedding Hurt

Recent Damage on CD

I am without shame...

Snow Patrol Final Straw (Dual Disc)

Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman (Deluxe)

Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat (Deluxe)

Guns n' Roses Chinese Democracy

The Killers Day & Age

New Order Brotherhood (Deluxe)

New Order Low-Life (Deluxe)

New Order Power, Corruption & Lies (Deluxe)

The Smiths The Sound of the Smiths

AC/DC Black Ice (Yellow Cover)

Janis Joplin Box of Pearls (Box)

The Smiths How Soon Is Now?

Brian Eno likes to sing

An essay on NPR by Brian Eno about the values of communal singing.

Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in NYC

Here's some advance print editorial on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex. New York Times. New York Daily News. Also, here a link to the Christie's Punk/Rock auction taking place in New York on November 24, and an NPR story about the auction.

New York Times Coney Island Photos

Story in November 9 City section of the New York Times. Images from Coney Island.

Recent Damage on CD

Van Morrison -- No Guru, No Method, No Teacher

Van Morrison -- Enlightenment

Van Morrison -- Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast

Keith Richard -- Main Offender

Kaiser Chiefs -- Off With Their Heads

Big Blue Diamonds performed by Van Morrison from MTV

Never Miss a Beat by the Kaiser Chiefs from MTV

Bubbles by Phil Judd

It just felt like a good time to post this portrait of Bubbles by Phil Judd again.

NYC Marathon

The New York Times posted a cool feature on the website.  Cover the NYC Marathon in under 4 minutes with an animation of 1000s of photos.  Click here to see it.

WFMU Record Fair

My peeps out in force for this one -- bad or no hair and 70s leather jackets. Alot of video bootleg activity, but happily much vinyl too. Used CD prices very reasonable. Mood jolly. Hot and packed and there might have been a wedding going on the the corner -- seemed rude to look...

Damage done:

Compact Discs

Back On Top, by Van Morrison
Rag Doll plus 11 other Hits, by Four Seasons
Handbags & Gladrags, by Mike D'Abo
Blaxploitation (Disc 2), by Various Artists
Big Love: Hymnal, by David Byrne
Blaxploitation (Disc 1), by Various Artists
I'm A Man, by The Spencer Davis Group
Wreckless Eric And Amy Rigby, by Wreckless Eric And Amy Rigby
Gimme Some Lovin', by The Spencer Davis Group
Colosseum Live, by Colosseum
Octopus, by Gentle Giant
The Pride And The Pain (Munich 07/05/73), by Roxy Music
Third, by Soft Machine
Southpaw Grammar, by Morrissey
Lil' Beethoven, by Sparks
Pay The Devil, by Van Morrison
Red Carpet Massacre, by Duran Duran
All The Way From America, by Joan Armatrading
Gentle Giant, by Gentle Giant
Pure Pop for Now People (Expanded Edition) by Nick Lowe

DVD

Julien Temple's concert film of the Sex Pistols filmed at the Brixton Academy last year.

MTV Videos are here:

Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK (with Sid Vicious) from The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

Morrissey performs Suedehead

Duran Duran performs Falling Down

Times Square, New York Columbus Day

Voice of Hudson

Several dates

Voice of Hudson

September 20

Millerton, NY

September 20, 2008

Strange Items From An Auction

Wood panels with hand-carved images of Asterix, Obelix and Getafix painted with acylic. In the 18" by 10" range. How did they end up in Columbia County, NY?

Millerton, NY

August 30

Millerton, NY

August 23, 2008

Tim Finn interview on LAist

Interview with Tim Finn on the LAist website. Talks about reforming old bands and new music releases.

Dan Dare cancelled again

Virgin Comics has gone out of business. Why would we care? Well, they just did a very strong series of Dan Dare comics, which I guess are now in limbo. Variety story.

Voice of Hudson

July 5, 2008

Millerton, NY

Top: July 12, 2008

Bottom: July 5, 2008

Dog Walk in Hudson

Crowded House play outdoors in the UK

Review of the Nottingham concert from the Nottingham Evening Post.

Review of the Liverpool show in the Liverpool Echo and two more reviews from The Ipswich Evening Star and The Norfolk EDP 24.

Here's an item about Glastonbury from NME.com

The Civic Theatre, Auckland, NZ

The Civic Theatre in Aukland where Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical is on tour.