Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic
The latest effort from Silver Spring-based duo, Dubble Trubble, in celebration of Zero to 180’s ninth birthday: Inspired by Mark Cuban‘s recurring catch phrase on TV’s Shark Tank, could this be the world’s first sing-along instrumental? Check out this 100-second version of “(For Those Reasons) I’m Out” that features drum
Jeff Krulik was the first to inform me that back in the mid-to-late 1980s, one could exit Silver Spring’s Track Recorders and walk about a mile or so up Georgia Avenue to reach another commercial sound facility: Central Recording Studio. Silver Spring historian, Robert Oshel, wrote about this very parcel
Memory is a funny thing. I can still picture myself standing at the checkout counter at School Kids Records in Columbus, Ohio having a chuckle with Curt Schieber over something – but was it a Great Plains 45 that had just been recorded? Or was it over the delicious roasted
Remember Tom Newbold? Before he became manager of The Ferns, Tom and I once had quite the shouting match over Birthday Party’s “Release the Bats” (as previously recounted in the Zero to 180 piece, “Winged Mammal Theme“). At the time of the incident, I was convinced that ‘Newbs’ was merely
A doff of the cap to Tom Hutton, who brought over all his Eastern European records and cassette tapes one day so we could put together a special mix of Balkan-related rock and pop. One of the humorous highlights on this compilation is “Pogo in Togo” by German pop punksters,
I discovered Godfrey Daniel‘s one and only album – Take A Sad Song – at the local library bookstore that sells donated materials, including record albums and 45s. I was struck first by the label – Atlantic – and secondarily by the following somewhat cryptic text on the back cover:
Paul Trynka‘s well-researched and highly-readable biography of Iggy Pop includes this related story about Sonic’s Rendezvous Band – an all-star assemblage of musicians from revered ’60s & ’70s Detroit rock groups: Formed by The MC5‘s guitarist, Fred ‘Sonic‘ Smith, and The Rationals‘ singer, Scott Morgan, with Dum Dum Boy [and
The Stranglers‘ non-LP single “Bear Cage” from March 1980 reached the UK Top 40 (#36): A 12-inch single extended mix – the band’s first – was also released. Once famously dismissed by John Lydon as “hippies with short hair,” The Stranglers got considerably less ink than the Pistols, Clash (et
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