On Friday February 2nd the Rock ’n’ Roll world was saddened the passing of “Brother” Wayne Kramer, founding member and guitarist of the legendary, influential Detroit band the MC5. Issued on Black Friday, 2023 via Saustex Records Call Me Animal: A Tribute to the MC5 was never intended as a send-off for Brother Wayne, but his untimely passing makes its recent release feel even more serendipitous. Conceived by Joey “Joecephus” Killingsworth, the album was several years in the making with his band/collective Joecephus and the George Jonestown Massacre and his production partner Dik LeDoux. Kramer himself participated in the project, laying down a smoking version of “Human Being Lawnmower” with Jello Biafra.
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Spirit In The Room – “Sunset Nightmare”
Photo credit:y Ekaterina Gorbacheva.
Ghost Cult has teamed up with enigmatic Rock raconteurs Spirit In the Room today to bring you their chilling new video for their track “Sunset Nightmare”. Directed by Jordan Santos, the clip picks up where their last single/video “But It Do”, left off. The clip is trippy, full clout nightmare, that calls to mind some of the greats of the horror and suspense genre, and the track, featuring Hardcore Punk legend Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks, OFF!), is a new dimension for the band as well. Check it out below, and catch the band on tour this week with Elephant Rifle. Continue reading
Punk Documentary Series From Iggy Pop and John Varvatos Debuts on Epix
Punk, a new documentary series made its debut on the EPIX channel tonight. Produced by Iggy Pop and designer and music mogul John Varvatos, Punk is a four-part series that explores the birth of Punk Rock. A huge assemblage of stars has come together including Pop, Varvatos, John Lydon (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd), Henry Rollins (Black Flag), Marky Ramone (Ramones), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters/Nirvana), Duff McKagan (Guns n’ Roses), Donita Sparks (L7),director Penelope Spheeris (The Decline of Western Civilization), Joan Jett, Danny Fields, Legs McNeil, Wayne County, Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks/OFF), Debbie Harry and Chris Stein (Blondie), Wayne County, Flea and many more. It may become a recurring series since the listing on EPIX refers to it as “Season 1”. You can watch the trailer below and click the link to sign up for a free trial to watch episode 1 on your phone on the EPIX NOW app or mobile device if your cable provider doesn’t feature the channel. Continue reading
Video: The Shrine – Coming Down Quick
California desert rockers The Shrine have released a new video from their forthcoming album, Rare Breed (Century Media) due out in January. You can watch the video for ‘Coming Down Quick’ at this link or below:
Rare Breed was produced by Dave Jerden (Alice in Chains, Jane’s Addiction, Social Distorsion, The Offspring etc.) and releases on January 15th in the US, but out now in the rest of the world. Pre-orders for physical copies are available now in an array of packages , including limited edition test pressing vinyl (with individual artwork), a coffin-style skate deck, and even an American GI style hand-painted Rare Breed war helmet.
The day of release in Los Angeles, the band will host “The Rare Breed Experience,”. This will be a special record release party and a “flashback trip to another dimension”. RSVP to the event on Facebook here:
Rare Breed track listing:
1. Coming Down Quick
2. Death To Invaders
3. Rare Breed
4. Acid Drop
5. What’s Let For Me
6. Savage Skulls & Nomads
7. The Vulture
8. Never More Than Now
9. Pull The Trigger
10. Dusted & Busted
11. Space Stepping
*Never More Than Now feat. Keith Morris
*Symptom of The Universe
*Bonus tracks on North American digipak release only
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Reed Mullin’s Teenage Time Killer Sign With Rise Records
Teenage Time Killer
Teenage Time Killer, an all star project headed by Corrosion of Conformity’s Mike Dean and Reed Mullin, has reportedly signed a record deal with Rise Records. The name was taken from a Rudimentary Peni song. The instrumental parts for the upcoming CD were recorded at Dave Grohl’s (FOO FIGHTERS, NIRVANA) Studio 606 in Northridge, California on the famous Sound City mixing board, which was the central focus of Grohl’s acclaimed “Sound City: Real To Reel” documentary. The effort was mastered by Bill Stevenson (THE DESCENDENTS, BLACK FLAG).
Reported artists who have contributed to the project include:
Randy Blythe (Lamb Of God)
Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters)
Corey Taylor (Slipknot/Stone Sour)
Neil Fallon (Clutch)
Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)
Lee Ving (Fear)
Tommy Victor (Prong)
Nick Oliveri (Mondo Generator, ex-Queens Of The Stone Age/Kyuss)
Aaron Beam (Red Fang)
Pete Stahl (Scream, Goatsnake)
Greg Anderson (SUNN O))), Goatsnake)
Karl Agell (ex-Corrosion Of Conformity)
Tairrie B Murphy (My Ruin)
Mick Murphy (My Ruin)
Vic Bondi (Articles Of Faith)
Clifford Dinsmore (BL’AST!)
Pat Hoed (Brujeria)
Max Cavalera (Soulfly)
Tony Foresta (Municipal Waste/Iron Reagan)
Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein (The Misfits)
Keith Morris (Black Flag, etc.)
Phil Rind (Sacred Reich)
Asked if there are any plans for TEENAGE TIME KILLER to go on the road in support of the upcoming CD, Mullin told INDY Week: “Touring, I don’t know. Dave Grohl’s folks — his management and marketing people — are going to help us do all that with the thing. We recorded about 98 percent of it at his studio. They were talking about — since there’s so many people from so many different bands — maybe do something like ‘[Jimmy] Kimmel [Live!]’ and have three or four different singers come out at one time, like Jello and Lee Ving, maybe Randy from LAMB OF GOD, something like that. All the songs are real short, so we could do, easily, four songs and not go over. But you know, we’d have Brian Baker come out and play guitar, Pat Smear play bass or guitar or whatever. It’s pretty star-studded.”
He added: “It sounds really organic. It sounds like we — the people that we associated with for the different songs — wrote the songs together.”