FILM/MUSIC: Tigre is Forever

Just stumbled upon the 2013 documentary 'The Punk Singer' on cable, about Bikini Kill/Le Tigre/Julie Ruin lead singer/frontwoman Kathleen Hanna.

Though definitely a DIY/make-it-up-as-you-go-along career, I have more respect now for Ms. Hanna, 25 years or so on from her origins. Her story has just more cultural weight and significance (Riot Grrrl, the Cobain connection, zine culture, pre-internet music making, etc.) as the '90s now seem like a cozy, but culturally-rich, nostalgic era.

MUSIC: Tame Jackson

Do guilty pleasures exist anymore? I feel like it's a "thing" for young hipsters to be ashamed of liking cheesy pop music. But as one gets older, I feel like it's safe to throw off those shackles of caring about what's cool or not anymore. I'm getting another year older next week.

Fact: I bought a CD copy of Michael Jackson's 'Blood on the Dancefloor' (new album/remix collection combo) at Amoeba in San Francisco in 1998...un-ironically. Yeah, I liked it. Sue me. I love that track 'Morphine'; so creepy. "Demerol...Oh God, he's taking Demerol." Michael had issues, clearly.

So great to hear that one of my fave new rock bands (trust me, I don't like a lot of them) Tame Impala has done a cover of the 'BOTDF' (in the know acronym) track 'Stranger in Moscow' and it's a shoegazey, shoegauzey treat. Effects on top of effects. It may be Tame Impala-by-numbers, but it's sweet.

They just missed the creepy ghostly scream at the end of the original track: a kid in an echo-y street screaming 'Michael!'

Tame Impala cover Michael Jackson

MUSIC: Sea of Led

Oh look, on this dreary, rainy, early March day I think I need to post a video of my favorite Led Zeppelin song...which is of course, The Honeydrippers' 'Sea of Love':