Happy Friday—Bop City nightclub, New York, 1950 (Anonymous photographer) via theshinyboogie

“You will never buy another record.” Awesome ROIR label ad from… many years back, advertising fine punk & postpunk music on cassette. fuk yeh.

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Beastie Boys and Billy Idol doing the Vulcan thing. Back in the day, yo. Via dirtypreston

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Because “don’t no wack poems get no play in my home”.

I wrote this post earlier in the week on laughingsquid about Fragile Territories a great Laser and Sound Art Installation by Robert Henke—check out the video, it’s really cool. And I got to see him perform over the weekend, too.

Ladies of bass. Yes. via givemyvioletmoreviolence:

Badass female bassists

Kim Gordon;  D’arcy Wretzky, Kristen Pfaff, Maureen Herman, Jackie Fox, Kim Deal, Kathi Wilcox, Jennifer Finch, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Suzi Quatro

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ilovetapehiss:

r.e.m. : life’s rich pageant

image ©japanese forms

First auto-reverse tape player I had I listened to “Life’s Rich Pageant” basically nonstop one summer. Well, I did.

archiemcphee:

This awesomely unusual musical instrument is called a “Triolin.” It was created by artist and instrument maker Alex Sobolev by building three violins and then joining them together.

“The instrument is quite striking but rather impractical—because the violins are joined at the base, musicians must play them upside down, more like a cello. In addition to making the occasional Frankenstein instrument, Sobolev is working on an intriguing electric violin that will be able to mimic the sounds of rare and antique violins.”

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The Beatles au naturel. Well in a garden anyway. Via vintagemarlene

Hell yeah. Photo: “Whipped Cream and Other Delights” (1965) album cover model Dolores Erickson holding a copy of the LP today. Via midcenturymodernfreak:

Dolores Erickson, 76, was once the object of many teen desires. She adorned the album cover of Herb Alpert’s “Whipped Cream & Other Delights” in 1965. Who cares if it was just shaving cream?

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Marlon Brando blows it. New York, 1940s. via wehadfacesthen

My latest on laughingsquid is about WFMU and the FreeMusic Archive’s effort to make birthday serenades copyright-free: The Quest For A Copyright-Free Happy Birthday Song