Happy Halloween!

Here's a Halloween video for you. Might be NSFW in some environments, but only for a few moments.

A great musician is dead

Let's take today to remember a truly great musician. A man of great honor, talent, and principle. A man whose death reminds us just how fleeting the best things in life can be.

I speak of course of the legendary D. Boon, singer and guitarist for the Minutemen. He died in an auto accident in 1985.

In memorial, here's an old, grainy video of the Minutemen performing "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing" (lyrics here).



To the best of my knowledge, Jackson never actually did sing that song. His loss.

Saturday Video Bonus

While I'm obviously an aging punk, Mrs. Unicow is more of an anti-folk fan. Oddly enough, there are instances where these two genres overlap.

As proof, here's a video for Jeffrey Lewis' cover of an old Crass song, off his album 12 Crass Songs.



Neat.

Thursday Angry Video

I had started to write about the torture memos that were recently made public, but had to stop due to severe rage.

Instead, here's a live Big Black video.

Tuesday videos, because why not?

One of my absolute favorite albums of all time is The Rezillos' Can't Stand The Rezillos, which sadly was also their only studio album. Anyway, here's a good old (1978-ish) video of them.



A good chunk of that band later reformed as The Revillos, who were still pretty enjoyable, but a bit too new-wavey for me. Still, crazy video!



Man, the 80's were nuts from the very start.

Tuesday video of fun!

No news has moved me to write today, and I'm not in the mood to go digging for something, so instead please enjoy this old Dead Milkmen video I just saw for the first time.



Yay!

Your Friday music video of fun

Man, everything is too boring to write about lately. Instead, here's a good video by The Coup that you can watch. Music, like comedy, is at its best when it's subversive.

That's why conservatives suck at both.

The world is slightly less crazy/awesome today

(I couldn't pick)

Lux Interior dead at 60.

Something actually fun to do!

Okay, my last post was a little weak. Boring public policy meeting + awesome Guitar Wolf video doesn't necessarily = fun.

Let me cut down the focus this time.

Way back in October of 'ought-seven I made a post in which I casually remarked that I had seen "The super-talented 'Scott Beddia Trio' (oddly composed of five people)".

Well, Mr. Beddia (a Fitchburger) found said post and has mentioned to me that he'll once again be playing at DeStare this Thursday night (May 1). This handily coincides with the Fitchburg "First Thursday" stuff, which ought to draw people downtown anyway.

Should you go?

Yes, you should!

"But why should we go, Mr. Unicow?" you may ask.

That's easy. Let me provide you with a list:

• Supporting Fitchburg artists is good.
• I guarantee it will be cooler than the creepy clown stuff on tap for First Thursday.*
• The dude can really drum.

So yeah, go see him! Support local artists, and have a martini or something!

Note that while that's just a video of Scott, the actual "Scott Beddia Trio" (which also contained an excellent guy on 5- [maybe 6-] string bass and a keyboardist who's good with the banter, plus a small horn section that is also good but maybe isn't part of the trio?) will be playing this week.

I couldn't find any handy online videos of the trio, but take that talent and extrapolate it times three (or five? seven? whatever), and you get an idea. See them!

*Guarantee void in Massachusetts and surrounding states