Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome

PE have uploaded a new video for the classic track, "Welcome to the Terrordome." Wicked remix and Chuck has not lost a step. If anything, he's harder and sharper now than in '89. This is the real deal.

It's weak to speak/and blame someone else.

And while we're giving props to PE, here's one a lot of folks missed from 2007, "Harder Than You Think."

You don't stand for something/You fall for anything.

Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon

Hard to fully appreciate what Fela was about without a basic understanding of the criminality, crookedness, and cruelties of the Nigerian regime. This French documentary does a great job of putting a true artist into context. Here, Fela's spirituality, music, and politics are unpacked about well as anything I've seen (including the Fela! musical).


Fela Kuti - Music Is The Weapon from Green Grin on Vimeo.

PBS Punk Rock Documentary (1995)

Directed by rock journalist Robert Palmer, this PBS documentary from 1995 turned up recently on Dangerous Minds.

Six video series, posted HERE.

CDH 2.9 - Sonic Reduction

On this week's show, we played the original Dead Boys recording of Sonic Reducer, a perennial favorite cover tune for all true rock bands. A cursory YouTube search quickly reveals at least 600 results, including:

The Vibrators
Overkill
Pearl Jam
Guns N Roses
The Valentines

'Sonic Reducer' was originally written by Rocket From The Tombs (RFTT), a visionary proto-(punk/alt/avant) band which quickly exploded into the spin-off bands Dead Boys and Pere Ubu. Subsequently, the song first appeared on the Dead Boys debut album, Young Loud And Snotty. The two bands followed strikingly different paths...

In 2003, RFTT reformed with most of its original members. They recorded an album of RFTT classics (Rocket Redux), which included, of course, Sonic Reducer.

Cheetah Chrome was the guitarist for RFTT, Dead Boys, and now The Batusis. Let him teach you how to make your own cover version:

Rare Footage: Sex Pistols' Final Concert (1978)

Recorded at Winterland (San Francisco) in 1978, this was the Pistols' final concert performance.



And speaking of Winterland, check out this vault of other performances given at that venue.

CDH 2.7 - Home Cooking

We had an eclectic show this week, with Xan getting back to some strong afrobeat grooves and me going off the rails with a 13 minute string quartet track... and not a single drop of hardcore, if you can believe that.

I think the standout cut this week was definitely Xan's lead-in: Tony Allen's Home Cooking (Wrasse Records). A couple of weeks ago Xan mentioned on a whim that he could be happy just playing Black Flag through every show, but I'm guessing if you warmed it up with some Tony Allen, you could get anyone up and moving and dancing and, eventually, leading marches on government buildings and joining together across the world in mutual support of, and respect for, one another. I'm sure of it.

There's definitely something about drummers that gives them a closer, more vulgar understanding of how to get people moving. Primal, reptilian shit. Home cooking.



Check out the playlist from the 2010-10-29 show.