01.20.06
Misc. Music Stuff
Volume two of the Congotronics series is out from Crammed: Congotronics 2: Buzz ‘n’ Rumble from the Urb ‘n’ Jungle is a compilation featuring several groups. If you still haven’t heard/purchased the first volume, Konono no. 1, for the love of God get off your ass right now and make haste with the debit card already. Seriously.
Also, due to be officially released in the next few days is something I definitely did not see coming: a 2-DVD set entitled The Tomorrow Show: Punk & New Wave. I still miss Tom Snyder, but I didn’t know he had on his show early luminaries of punk. (The latest segment on the discs dates from 1981, so that could be why — I was just entering high school at the time and mom wouldn’t let me stay up late.) The discs include interviews and live performances by Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, John Lydon, The Ramones, The Jam, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, The Plasmatics (remember them?), and even a round table discussion ca. 1977 (!) on the emergence of punk that includes Bill Graham and a very-pre-MTV Joan Jett (ca. The Runaways).
Finally, the WFMU blog features Part 5 of Adventures in the Nurse With Wound List the (thankfully) ongoing series providing MP3s and background information viz. groups listed on an insert included with an early Nurse With Wound release. (Read the posts to learn more.) Astute readers (if there are any) will have noticed I recently mentioned this series of posts as “utterly essential.”
Oh, PS — I learned from the December issue of The Wire that the complete back catalog of This Heat is due to be released ca. mid February by RéR Megacorp. The CDs — including a disc of previously unreleased material remastered by the surviving members — will be available individually, but the box set edition will include what the label calls “a fat book.” If you pony up the 45 British pounds for the “subscription offer,” you get the full meal deal plus “an extra subscription item.”
