Rock Scene magazine, 1973–1982. All 54 issues scanned and online.
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Rock Scene magazine, 1973–1982. All 54 issues scanned and online.
Cool! Rock Scene was Lisa Robinson's mag and it had such an odd "you're hanging out with rock stars" vibe to it. Hardly any copy, but sometimes pieces by Patti Smith or Richard Hell. Lots of promo pictures and then gossip. It didn't have any of the kind of writing you found in Creem, really.
I guess I should note that in typical nerdster fashion I read about punk for years before I ever heard it. I'd hang out at a store called The Treasury which was an odd department store/grocery store hybrid and it had a huge magazine and paperback section and they didn't give a shit if you sat there and read them all day. (That's where I read The Happy Hooker Goes Around the World.) But I read Creem, Rock Scene, Crawdaddy and Hit Parader religiously from the time I was 12 (1973) until I discovered the Village Voice and Rolling Stone (about age 16).
Info on the next MCR single! "The Only Hope For Me Is You". And because I have no emotional resilience right now, I will admit that the cover art made me tear up a little.
New Waits tune: [link]
New Waits tune: [link]
It's Waitsian!
I've been Waitsblocked!
That was fast! There is this: [link]
I have a wee handful of invites to the Google Music Beta: [link]
Let me know if you want one. It's probably more useful to you if you have an Android device of some kind.
Someday, I will get tired of Wild Flag, but that day is a long ways away. The debut album is streaming on NPR and it may be my fave of the year: [link]
Note to Hecubus: there are bubblegum influences.