I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen Rodney Dangerfield’s actual stand-up set (note to self: do that), but like most Americans who grew up with a steady diet of television watching in the 1980s and 1990s, I know his schtick like it was written on the inside of my eyelids. The thing about Rodney Dangerfield […]

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Telly Savalas, best known for his role as Detective Lt. Theo Kojak on the 1970s TV series Kojak and for playing other gritty, bald-headed bastards in films such as The Dirty Dozen and Kelly’s Heroes, probably isn’t the first person you’d peg as having a taste for maudlin MOR ballads. But it turns out that […]

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Much as I love watching four android-looking-dudes standing in front of a projection screen computing while the techno-fied hits play, I think I dig Kraftwerk’s early live presentation a bit more — it’s a mix of electronic key and drum synths the band created itself and Florian Schneider’s acoustic flute. Here they perform the song […]

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To compliment yesterday’s Audio Review Podcast, here’s a couple related videos. As the cliché goes, the Move were the best British band never to break the U.S. charts; it sticks because it’s true. This first video, a fiery live version of the 1967 U.K. number two hit “I Can Hear the Grass Grow,” is probably […]

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Walker’s acting painfully aloof in this clip, but in his defense, the VJ doing the interview is unbelievably dense. Anyone know what show this is from? The video (power through) is for my favorite track from Walker’s only 1980s release, Climate of Hunter (anonymously titled “Track 3″); he’s already pretty much gone off the deep […]

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“A hip, hop, hip hip hop to the hip hip hop and you don’t stop”: Any rappin’ fool can recognize instantly these inimitable initial verbal cues to what would become arguably the biggest music style in the world. But what if those lyrics started out “We got a new thing out, gonna make ya shout/ […]

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Apropos of the mono/stereo remaster of Pink Floyd’s classic debut Piper at the Gates of Dawn released by Capitol last week, here’s a promotional video of the Pink Floyd (”the” preceded the band’s name back in their UFO Club days) and its Piper-era single “See Emily Play.” Whatever your take on the arena-rock monster that […]

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With all this talk about MF Doom and just who is under that mask, we thought it might be appropriate to pull another character out of MF’s closet for today’s Vintage Video post. In the late-’80s/ early-’90s Doom was Zev Luv X and led a New York group called KMD, which included Zev, his brother […]

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Realizing that Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit is the most titillating of the chewing gums was Mtume’s greatest lyrical conceit; the accompanying video for the song “Juicy Fruit” is dripping with sex and hair grease. I imagine it being a primary inspiration for the Soul Glo faux-mercial from Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America, or maybe a few […]

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