Top 13 (Of The Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.

13. I Miss Drugs

Not me personally, but lots of people do. This very funny new web series very accurately portrays what happens to former with-it types (like me and Swilson) once we approach middle-age. Hint: Ikea and Hulu Plus is involved. Sad but true. (K)

I Miss Drugs-Episode 1-"Almost There" from I MISS DRUGS on Vimeo.


12. Space Shuttle Endeavor Over the Mind-Warp Pavilion
The now retired spacecraft got a piggy back ride from a 747 this morning and flew all around the Los Angels area. Lady Swilson and I Watched it from Billion Dollar Beach across the street from the the Mind-Warp.  What a sight! (S)






11. Strange Forces
German headphone melters Strange Forces have a new album out, "I'd Rather Listen to the Bloody Birds". It's a swirling kaleidoscope of reverb-drenched space-case guitars and meandering doper grooves. The psychedelia is so dense you can get lost in it. In Venus, the sky is made of acid. This is probably what it sounds like when you parachute into the Venusian atmosphere. (K)





10. Wapassou - Wapassou (1974)
An extremely obscure group from france. They make stoned, sexy, psychedelic groove music. Perfect for skinny dipping in ice cold waterfalls and smoking hashish if your into that sort of thing. Kinda like a much header version of the Vampyros Lesbos soundtrack. (S)






09. Warp Drive is Possible! 
NASA is pretty sure that with a little tinkering, we can just bend space around a little and achieve interstellar space travel. Seeing as we're discovering potential new habitable zones in far-off galaxies at a pretty regular clip these days, it's nice to know we might have a way to visit. There's a good chance it'll take 100 years or so to pull it off, so I would suggest you eat a lot of kale and stay hydrated, so you'll be around when it happens. (K)





08. Mule: Summer 1994
Man does this make me nostalgic. In the summer of 1994, many a drunken evening on the back porch of a Jersey shore house was spent with If I Don't Six on the box. Conjuring up memories of  eating shorties from Wawa and washing them down with Natty Ice . They are a largely forgotten phenomenon now,  a completely original cocktail of blues, punk and redneck swagger. P.W. Long had an amazing self taught guitar style and the rhythm section was as bombastic as it gets. They moved from Detroit to Philly, a move that seemed to make sense at the time, than P.W. struck out on his own and now I think he writes restaurant reviews. (S)






07. Who Killed Captain Alex? 
Isaac Nabwana is Uganda's first (and only) action film director. His entire production company is a volunteer, guerrilla army of stuntmen, actors, and explosive "experts", and from the completely fucked-up trailer for his epic, "Who Killed Captain Alex", we just might have a major new...well, I don't know if talent is the right word, but phenomenon definitely works. There's also a kickstarter campaign going to shoot a documentary on Nabwana, which I think needs to happen. (K)





06. The London Cowboys
After the break of  the Idols ( which include Jerry Nolan and Walter Lure) Barry Jones and Steve Dior formed the London Cowboys. They were the nucleus with which a revolving cast of punk rock luminaries played, including: Nolan, Glen Matlock, Tony James (Generation X), Pete Farndon (Pretenders), Terry Chimes (The Clash, Generation X) and sometimes Monroe from Hanoi Rocks. This is sleazy glam in all the right places. Somehow I missed 'em but I guess they were big in the U.K. (S)





05. Krofft Supershow
Mid 70's Saturday morning insanity. A variety show from some dark psychedelic cartoon hell, served up weekly during bouts of sugar-cereal overdosing. This show fried my mind but good. I'm still not over it. Now some maniac has posted 'em up on Youtube to infect a whole new generation with it's drug-soaked zaniness. (K)






04. Jim Ford by way of Sly Stone blitzed on Dick Cavett 
This footage  has been kicking around for some time and it's not really funny to see Sly all fucked up (looking sharp I might ad)  but I just realized he name checks the great Jim Ford! Too bad this is Jim's fifteen minutes of fame right here. (S)






03. Black Devil Disco Club
The deepest darkest disco ever made and i'd like to thank Seth, the drummer in Swilson for this most crucial Advanced Demonological find. Bernard Fevre a french musician who released synth library music under the name Milpatte, recored and released an Ep of satanic disco in 1978 to relative obscurity. Of course in recent years it has resurfaced at the hands of some DJ's and has been hailed as the classic it really is. Fevre has started recording and releasing under the Black Devil moniker again and it's all pretty good. Outsider, satanic, loner disco! (S)





02. The Doors of Perception: Weird Funk, Psychedelic Soul, and Acid Jazz from New York City (1970-1974)
The title says it all, really. My new fave comp of all time. You can't get more far out than this, man. This shit is ALL THE WAY GONE. (K)





01. The Fall - Ersatz GB (2011)
I'm a huge Fall fan but I go in and out of consciousness with them, it's hard to keep track in this fast moving world. Every now and again I wake up and say : "wonder if there is a new Fall record?"…well I did that this morning and came across one from 2011…is there a newer one? It's great! I thought Your Future Our Clutter was great so hopefully he's on a roll. (S)

Top 13 (Of The Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.


13.Fastway - Eat Dog Eat (2012)

So there is a new Fastway record out. it's the first one in 21 years. Aside from a few tunes that feel like Eddie must of listened to some grunge records along the way not much has changed.  Just no nonsense  wall rock 'n roll. This recording, sonically speaking, sounds better than the records made in the 80's, it's real raw and full, and I've never been much of Dave Smith fan so I dig the new singer. Great job guys. Long live Fast Eddie! (S)

12. You may wonder to yourself, what would Marc Bolan be doing if he was around today? 

I'm pretty sure he'd be doing exactly this, remixing his early 70's hits into Studio 54 party anthems or hazy chillwave jams. The DJs at KCRW mutate several well-known Bolan boogies into some seriously groovy T Rex-tasy. There's an EP available. If you are a child of the revolution. you'll get it. (K)

11.Birth Of The Groove: R and B, Soul and Funk Guitar: 1945-1965 by Dave Rubin

This great instructional guitar book traces the history of the guitar players ,who helped fuse Blues and Jazz into Rhythm & Blues, which helped form soul and Rock 'n Roll and ultimately Funk. It's a fantastic history with biographies and in depth analyses of the playing styles of such six string luminaries as Tiny Grimes, Robert Ward, Steve Cropper, and Cornell Dupree. Hell there is even an interview with my most infamous main man Ike Tuner! It comes with a CD to help you play along to examples and, if your a guitar player, it's a great way to spend a  Saturday night. (S)

10. Lydia Lunch - Spooky 

Lydia was/is a hardcore NYC no-waver turned angry poetess, and to be honest with you, most of the time, she's just way too much for me. Seriously, try to get through one of her 80's spoken word records in one sitting without a bottle of something stiff to soothe your nerves. But on her first solo album, 1980's Queen of Siam, she croons her way through a sultry, stripped-down version of Classic IV's late 60's mega hit Spooky like she invented "spooky". Or at least perfected it. (K)

9. Prog Not Frog search engine

You know, times have been tough lately for diehard obscure music fans. After Megaupload got nailed, everybody else started panicking and now the music blogosphere is a sickly, shivering shadow of its former self. At least, that's the way it looks on the surface. The new PNF search engine (sponsored, I'm guessing, by the excellent and still-kicking Prog Not Frog blog) is an excellent way to find some way-out, long-gone tunes. Just type in whoever you want to hear, and it will find blogs posting your chosen poison. It's still being built, so not all blogs have been indexed yet, but it's a strep in the right direction, for sure. Try it! (K)

8.The late great Sherman Hemsley was a acid eating Gong fanatic!

This little tidbit has been kicking around the inter-web since George Jefferson passed away. If you haven't read it yet, you can check it here. It's just such a mind-blowing story that it seems like it comes from the Advanced Demonology parallel universe. Just a few things to keep in mind when reading it. This first person account from Daevid Allen is from late 1978 or 1979, not 1969, almost 1980. Think about that. Also Hemsley would go on to have a hit series with "Amen" after this story took place. He isn't exactly a counter culture icon. He's more like Jerry Seinfeld at the time. I can't wait for a bio to be written about this man. (S)

7. Some dude from Vice went to the Westminster Dog Show. On acid.

 It went about how you'd expect. (K)

6.Ron Asheton 1986 Interview

I stumbled across this really cool clip of the god of thunder talking with the Dutch in 1986. If anyone can track down the rest of this documentary let us know.(S)

5. Ike & Tina Turner Live 1971

Caught this one on the Netflix watch instantly this week. Awesome!  The opening with just the Ikettes is worth the watch,  and you couldn't imagine things getting hotter and sexier, than the acid queen comes on and your reduced to a puddle of jelly. No wonder Ike Turner was dressing and  acting like a pimp. This is serious, uncut, pussy power,that blows away that watered down stuff in years to come like Madonna and that Ciccone rip-off act Ga Ga. (S)

4. The Orchis Italia

Also known as the Naked Man Orchid, for obvious reasons. They grow in the Mediterranean. Pink flowers that look exactly like grinning idiots with large, dangling penises. Nature is nuts. If you stumbled across these by accident,  they'd probably fry your brain but good. (K)

3.The Bad Trips - Open

When I ordered the reissue of Walk to the Fire ( you should get yours now they are going fast apparently) I also grabbed this. Grady Runyan is a guitar god al la Randy Holden, he also owns a cool record store, and this is his other band the Bad Trips. To quote apparently square and misdirected youtube commenter "fucking druggie shite, grow up!". So you know, right on, that's exactly what we want here at Advanced Demonology. (S)

2. The Playboy Roller Disco and Pajama Party 

This really happened. On TV. In 1979. Girls on rollerskates, the Village People, Richard Dawson, Dorothy Stratten, Bill Cosby...it's all too much. By the way, midway through, there's an awesome news update from a local anchor who's clearly appalled that this is even on television. Holy smokes, was 1979 a fuckin' gas, or what? (K)

1.  I saw a Bobcat in my backyard!!!

I grew up on the east coast and the cities are concrete jungles. Not much nature around other than rats and roaches and pigeons. Los Angles is a wonderland and  it's the second largest city in America, but because of the climate, all the canyons,  the beach, and foothills there is tons of , to me at least, exotic wildlife that just mixes in with the concrete and grime, rats and roaches. We have coyotes, rattlesnakes, rabbits, lizards, black widow spiders, if your by the beach, seals, dolphins and sharks.  In my backyard alone I've seen a deer, had a hawk drop a 4 foot gopher snake out of the sky, been up close and personal with a coyote at 4am, and looked eye to eye with a weasel.  But the other day I came home from work to have a bobcat scamper out the yard. A bobcat!?! Isn't that related to a tiger or a lion? Is that animal dangerous? We have mountain lions too but I never want to see one. I'm from New Jersey!  California is full of creeps and weirdos and wild cats I guess. (S)

Top 13 ( Of the Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.

13. Astra

Of all the bands that claim Pink Floyd as an influence few ever get it right. They forget that Floyd's music was an ensemble of simple parts played sparingly at the right time with the right intensity.  Lot's of breathing room. Astra a band out of San Diego certainly conjures up the feeling and let's it breath big. Releasing records on the mighty Metal Blade and adding heavy doses of Sabbath and Hawkwind just to keep it street.  Check out 2009's The Weirding and 2012's The Black Chord. Heavy!!! (S)

12. The Accutrac +6

Jesus Christ, look at this fucking turntable. A fucking spiral shoots up and gently lowers your record on the platter! A 1970's computer reads the tracks and lets you program it like a CD! I would trade my car for one of these. I mean, Stacey wouldn't let me, but I would if I could. (K)

11. The Six Degrees Of Helter Skelter

The Dearly Departed Tours offer some of the best and most unique tours available. The city of Angles and southern California in general is the serial/mass murder capital of the world. Statistically speaking. Few mass murders captured the terrified imagination of America, and struck a deadly blow directly at the 60's day dream as the Mason gang.  This documentary, hosted by a D.D.T. guide and Manson murder expert Scott Michaels, focuses on the Murders themselves not on the back story or the trial/hysteria that followed after. It's a blow by blow account that puts you in the footsteps of the murders and the victims  those fateful evenings in late 1969.  I'm a pretty big Manson buff and I highly recommend this especially if you live in or plan to visit Los Angeles. (S)

10. And Party Every Day: The Inside Story Of Casablanca Records

What a book! Written by Neil Bogart's cousin (and right-hand man). There's a lot of mumbo jumbo about numbers, I'll tell you that up front, but otherwise the cocaine starts piling up early - back when they were both working at Buddah (home of Melanie! And 1910 Fruitgum Company! And Honey Cone! And Coven!)  - and it only gets worse/better when the move to LA and start up Casablanca, the juggernaut that spawned Kiss, Donna Summer, and the Village People, among many others. Crazy shit goes down and lots of blow gets snorted, a good portion of it by Curtis Mayfield! (K)

09.Terry Riley - You're No Good (1968)

Supposedly commissioned by a Philly disco, Terry Riley  ( the man behind the avant one hit wonder "In C") takes a perfectly good Harvey Avern tune and warps it into a 20 minute mind bend that will make you wanna reach for the Dramamine by the time you get to minute thirteen. Certainly a very early form of "remixing" if ever there was one. (S)

8. Seeds of Iblis - Iraqi anti-Islam female-fronted black metal 

Yikes! This is gonna end badly, I think. But what a scene, and what a racket! (K)

07. Earl Palmer

Pretty much invented Funk and Rock 'n Roll drumming and played on every record you've ever loved over the last 50 years. I just found out about him the other day. here he is on a Jesse James track from 1958, check out the drums on this shit!!!(S)

6. Roy C - Sex and Soul

Roy C is one of the great long-lost soul men, and his albums, Sex and Soul (1973) and More Sex and Soul (1977), are fantastic. Also, his lyrics are crazy. Like on this track, I Wasn't There (But I Can Feel the Pain). Did he just say, "I wasn't there when they raped my great, great great grandmother, and I wasn't there when she cried out for help, but I can feel the pain, early in the morning"? He sure fuckin' did. Holy smokes, Roy.  I love this guy! (K)

05. Nothing People - Smells Like Metal (2011)

There are few bands cooler than Northern California's Nothing People. Smells Like Metal is there latest effort and is a spaced out groove. Outsider one Percenters fo' sure. Dig?(S)

4. Mary Moor: Pretty Day

Killer ice-hearted proto- coldwave from a  murderous French chick circa '82. 

PS: This single currently goes for hundreds of bucks! Why? The strangled fake sax solo? (K)

03. Sylvester - Over and Over (1977)

Incredable!!!!

2. Solid Gold

Swilson dredged up the memory of this 80's cheesepop staple recently, and I was psyched to see the first-ever episode, glitchy and washed-out, on Youtube. I still don't get why they picked the snooze-worthy Dionne Warwick (and Paul Anka!) as the first host(s) - the gorgeous Marilyn McCoo, who replaced her a year or later, was a much better choice - but still, hot dancers "interpreting" then-hot tracks, many of which are now completely forgotten (Robbie Dupree's Hot Rod Hearts?!)? Irene Cara in a see-through Caftan? Kurt Vonnegut's kid wrote songs for Ambrosia? Also, that one dancer chewing gum during Chuck Berry's perf of Johnny B. Good? Awesome! (K)

1. Utz - Crab Chips

I didn't eat potato chips for like 15 years but now there back in my life and back with a vengeance. I highly recommend the Utz Crab chip. I can't get it out here so I have to special order it. Very good with cold beer if you get your kicks that way (S)

Top 13 ( Of The Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.

13. Blue Oyster Cult: Live At the Empire Concert Club Cleveland Ohio 1991

I never thought the day would come when I'm recommending a B.O.C. bootleg from 1991 but today is the day. These days the 8th wonder of the world has been reduced to playing chili cook offs and street fairs (I'm actually going to see them July 21st in San Diego..a street fair). This was recored for a radio broadcast and has the band in amazing form. They play all the hits with such ferocity and swagger it rivals On your Feet or On your Knees. (S)

12. Faithful Breath - Judgement Day 

16 blissful minutes of awesome late 70's Viking prog! (K)

11. Radio Birdman Live 1978!!!

Australia's answer to the Stooges and the MC5 by way of Blue Oyster Cult, I'm sure they are already your favorite band.  (S)

10. New Roctober is out! 

Roctober is one of the greatest music magazines of all time, ever, and they've just published their 50th issue, which also happens to be their 20th anniversary issue! 141 pages of arcane rock knowledge, weird interviews, kooky komics, and hundreds (if not thousands) of reviews printed in the tiniest font imaginable. So you might wanna break out a magnifying glass. Either way, this hefty tome will eat up your weekend, that's for sure. (K)

9.1968 Playmate Gale Olsen

On a recent trip back to the fatherland of New Jersey I picked up in some junk shop, a copy of From Playboy Press: The Youth Culture 1971. It's Playboys special report on what's happening with the youths in  early 70's America. It's got an awesome interview with Peter Fonda fresh off from the success of Easy Rider. He's a smart mother fucker. A cool story about a commune in New Mexico and a mind blowing panel discussion about Drugs with: Baba Ram Dass, John Finlator (former director of the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control), Alan Watts, William Burroughs, Harry J. Anslinger ( who is 80 at the time and was one of the main men behind prohibition and was the guy who made grass illegal!), Leslie Fielder, and James Coburn. But the real star of the show is 1968 Playmate Gale Olsen, holy hippie death goddess!!! She would make a later appearance in the glad mag almost 20 years later and her daughter became a playmate in 2009. Wow! (S)

8. Outer Spacist - Even Iller

These Ohio spacejammers released a single a year or two ago, "I Don't Care About Love, Baby" that knocked me out with its aggressive Stooges-riffs and sneering punk rock vocals. They were like Flipper jamming with Gaye Bykers on Acid. I figured they'd break up or fall out of a window or something because they sounded too crazed to last for long. Well, lo and behold they managed to keep it together long enough to spit out a fantastically sleazy mini-album of scorching cosmic punk. Hot! (K)

7. Brion Gysin: Dream Machine

I missed the Brion Gysin retrospective when it was in New York and I don't think it has come to L.A. so the next best thing is this companion book published by Merrell. It's the first comprehensive collection of the proto-psychedelicist's visual work assembled in book form. His art is more a product of personal psychological experiments, than finished pieces and although not all that groundbreaking, they are extremely ascetically pleasing.  He viewed art as a method to induce different state's of conciseness in himself through the process of creation. I like that. (S)

6. Nihilist Spasm Band - Destroy the Nations

So, who really invented noise-rock? My money's on these loonies. The Nihilist Spasm Band was a group of Canadian musicians, artists, tinkerers and manic street preachers who built their own instruments and created an unholy racket with 'em. They called it "Free improv". Everybody else called it a headache. This was in 1965, by the way! "Destroy the Nations" is a tasty track from their 1968 album, No Record. Most of the original members are dead at this point, but the Spasm Band is still together, and still battering eardrums with abandon.(K)

5. James Knight & The Butlers: Black Night (1971)

Let's face it…when was the last time you put on a 70's soul or funk record and were disappointed. Maybe it wasn't something you'd remember forever but it wasn't bad, in fact it was probably better than most anything else you listened to that day, even your favorite rock band.  So when it comes to 70's Soul it's really only worth reporting the truly great finds here on Advanced Demonology.  James Knight's Black Night recored for CAT records in Miami Florida, 1971 is a truly GREAT find. In fact I think it might be the most Advanced Demonological soul record of all time. Tailor made for this blog.  The record effortless dances a tight rope between smooth easy soul, down home funk, blues,  fuzzed out psychedelia,  and free jazz without ever becoming one thing or the another. James belts out his vocals with punk rock vigor with no apparent real concern for staying in key. His guitar sounds at times like the distortion is being achieved by plugging it into a clock radio.  He has a matter of fact charisma that keeps the listener pinned to tunes like funky cat, uncle joe, and fantasy world. There is a beautiful cover of Aretha Franklin's "Save Me".  Further proof that Miami's greatest legacy is 70's funk….well second greatest legacy next to 80's cocaine.(S)

4. Virgin prunes - Decline and Fall

Holy fuck. No one would dare to be this ridiculous/awesome these days. 80's goth was amazing.(K)

3. Badmags.com

Before cable TV, before home video, before  the inter-web  if you wanted to get your cheap sleazy kicks, in the privacy of your own home your best bet was magazines.  Yeah sure there were porn mags but there was all sorts of other rags to get your rocks off to (mostly porn disguised as something else): Detective mags, True Crime, UFO mags, Biker mags….It's fun to collect these things now, especially since the computer age. The eye candy is great and it's a fantastic way to see how the world was viewed. What old school stereos are worth grabbing. How lecherous  squares really viewed hippie girls. It's a kaleidoscope of sleazy  selections that one might find overwhelming rummaging through thrift stores and flea market bins. That's where Badmags.com comes in. An extremely well thought out online guide to the perverted periodicals of yore.  Each entry well written with tons of awesome covers scanned in.  Even whole sections dedicated Manson, Ed Wood Jr. and Myron Fass ; the publishing madman behind such forgotten gems as: Gasm(!?!), Acid Rock, Buccaneer, and Flick (which if you look at the title at the right angle it looks like FUCK..brilliant!). (S)

2. Freewheelin' Frank: Secretary OF The Angeles As Told To Michael McClure By Frank Reynolds

"the Earth is hell and on it there are Hell's Angels" It's 1965 and Frank is in his early twenties and he is a young man in the throws of the demon. He is at the top of the food chain of the toughest biker gang on the planet and at ground zero for the unleashing of one of the most powerful psychoactive drugs known to man. The combination makes for an amazing read. One minute he's talkin' about loving everyone the next minute he's talking about stompin' a guys brains out. There is an amazing scene where he is chased by the SFPD on his bike while high on acid, caught and almost beat to death, when he ends up in front of the judge the next morning, still dosing, the judges asks him if he's got anything to say, he recites the entire lyrics from Dylan's "It's Alright ma".  The poet Michael McClure basically typed the book as Frank Reynolds talked, the two remained friends and when frank was sent to prison for arson in the 70's Michael sent him a book on zen to help him through. When he got out frank became a zen hermit and lived alone in the redwood forest, near a waterfall. He died in 2003. (S)

1. The Curiosity Rover is due to land on Mars in August. So how hard is it to drop a robot on to the surface of another planet?

 It's insanely hard. Check out this excellent video detailing the various means utilized to make it happen. (K)

Top 13 (Of The Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.

13. Bee Gees : Mr. Natural (1974)

I've always been a big Bee Gees fan. I love the early chamber psychedelia and the late disco. Fantastic! I started thinking there must have been some transition period right? Right. It was the 1974 record Mr. Natural. It marks the move from England to Los Angeles and reflects a Philly soul influence that would pave the way to the amazing Saturday Night Fever. There are no super hits on here but  every song is great. My Favorite being the hard rock funk of Heavy Breathing. (S)

12. Vocoder - What Happens Now

I've been immersing myself in bottom-shelf 80's synth-rock for the past couple weeks. Why?  I guess I was too busy listening to macho chest-thump music back then to enjoy the simple goofy pleasures of dudes in suspenders playing keytars, so now I'm making up for it. One of my faves is Spanish button-pushers Vocoder and their amazing supermarket-themed video for 1985's almost-smash, "What Happens Now?" This is pretty much exactly what I imagine Swilson's videos will look like once he signs to a Bulgarian label.  Euro-budget rock FTW! (K)

11. Iceberg Slim

Real name Robert Beck. He wrote eight fantastic novels about street life in the 40's and 50's.  The best is his autobiographical Pimp: The Story Of My Life. I read it when I was in high school and it blew my mind, written in 40's street slang, it includes a glossary of slang words in the back. Awesome. It's a no holds bar view of the life of a player, the highs and the very low lows, This week I've been reading Mama Black Widow, the story of a cross dressing homosexual in the concrete jungles of the Chicago. Brutal.  He's the best selling African American author after Alex Haley.  (S)

10. I dream of Jeannie goes psyche

Barbara Eden did,I believe, release a pop single somewhere in the beginning of her career, and she did Vegas revues for decades after the show ended, so it's not surprising that Jeannie would end up singing at some point. But sexed-up faux-psychedelia? Of course, it was really her evil twin, but either way, groovy! (K)

09. The Heretic's Handbook Of Quotations

Blasphemous quotes by everyone from Emma Goldman to Adolf Hitler on an assortment of topics from politricks to sex . Indispensable to any neo-beatniks library.  Here is a few short ones, chosen at random: "The Human tendency prefers familiar horrors to unknown delights" -  Fred Woodworth ; " Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life." - Senator Orrin Hatch ; "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein ; "He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; he who dares not is a slave" - William Drummond; "speed will turn you into your parents" - Frank Zappa; "under Soviet conditions masturbation is no longer the mass phenomenon it was in the past" - T.S. Atarov ; "polyester shirt, polyester pants!" -Swilson (S)

8. Den Haan Gods from outer space 

My nu fave nu-disco (or "macho disco", or "neuro-glam", as they like to call themselves) outfit have a nu album, Gods from Outer Space, and it's got some serious lease-breaking party jams. Holy smokes.

PS: if you're extravagant or a 1%-er, you may wanna spring for the double-vinyl import. (K)

07. Keiji Haino

I think it's good for people to listen this kind of stuff every now and agin, especially with coffee in the morning, Cleans out your head head, keeps the mind limber and get's ya ready for a day were anything can happen. Haino is an arch-freek who as been at this noise/nonsense since the 70's. Speaking of quotations  I'll qote a youtube comment about 'em I like very much :  "Because this hurt's!!! This can not be heard. I'll rather listen to fingernails scraping a blackboard!!! But eventually i do not understand a lot of music....... or drugs!!!!" - JaackPat (S)

6. Titan landing 

Maybe I knew this but forgot? Six years ago a European space probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan and took pictures for 90 minutes. It took seven years to get there! Wow! I mean, all it saw was rocks and ice, but still, fuckin' Titan. That is bananas. This entry would seriously blow your mind if this was 2006. (K)

05.James Gang: Bang (1973)

In a quest for all things Tommy Bolin and a recent desire  for some A-List classic rock that I might have glossed over, I'm now mining the depths of the cocaine caves and coming up with things like late period James Gang. Lord help me! Thing is I can't stop listening to it. Maybe it's California? (S)

4. Hardcore hula hoopin'

Ok, so I suggest you add your own soundtrack (I bet Cool Skull works!), but seriously, how great is this? (K)

3. G.G. Allin: Live Fast Die Fast (1984)

Other than the shit and the puke what's up with G.G.'s music? Is it any good? By good I mean I think he might have something wrong with him and he's speaking from the heart of a disenfranchised idiot. So I think that it might be good. I'm just not sure, maybe I shouldn't care. Life sucks scum fuck? I love this song. (S)

2. Haunted Leather - Shapes on the Wall

Michigan's big into apocalyptic psyche these days, and Haunted Leather is one of the most extravagant practitioners thereof. Hazy, droning, locked-in-the-basement-for-days stuff. Awesome. (K)

Shapes on the Wall from Haunted Leather on Vimeo.

1. Lantern: Dream Mine (2012)

These guys have got there feet dancing in all the right places, wholesome, all american, exuberant freak out music. You can tell they love it and Advanced Demonology loves it. Dream Mine is a cyber punk concept record. It sounds like a Stooges tape being played on a boom box while some longhaired kids are getting drunk on the railroad tracks, in the year 2085.  Buy it!!! (S)

Top 13 (Of The Week)

Sure,you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology takes over. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the result of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.

The Purr-Fect Crime Part I by wwevideo007


13. Purrfect Crime: The Julie Newmar documentary

Everybody loves Julie Newmar, the statuesque 60's beauty who will forever be known as the original (and greatest!) Catwoman. But how much do you know about her? This illuminating doc spills the beans, some of it funny, some of it tragic. Did you know she invented her own kind of pantyhose named Nudemars? And that she was at war with Jim Belushi for years? Awesome. (K)

12. Ali, fear Eats Soul

Yes it certainly does.  Saw this at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica last night. It's a story about a big (in every way) Moroccan man who falls in love with a little German old lady. It's 1974 and although Hitler is a distant memory the locals are none too happy about all the Arab's populating the area, and really not happy about  inter racial relationships. The super prolific Fassbinder  shot this in just under two weeks as a film making exercise between the production of two other film. This is a good entry point into his catalog. He made tons of movies in his very short life. (S)

11. Vandroid  

So, Vandroid was a brutal cyborg/van themed exploitation flick from the mid 80's that was never released because the studio (and all the prints) burned in a fire. All that remains are a few pieces of artwork and the master tapes for the amazing electro-synth soundtrack. I mean, maybe all that happened. Probably not, though. Probably it's all a ruse to get you to listen to the sweet Vandroid mega-jams. Which is ok with me.  (K)

10. Ronnie Self

My good fried Dave turned me on to this lost Rockabilly belter. His biggest hit was a song called "Ain't I'm A Dog" but he had a really unsuccessful solo career despite being signed to Columbia and Decca records and had a history of boozing, insanity and violent behavior. All the hallmarks we like to admire from afar when enjoying a potential Advanced Demonological hero. Other people had some hits with his songs: Jack Hess & Brenda Lee. The song "High On Life" is NOT indicative of Ronnie's rockabilly snarling, I just posted it cause it fits this blog a little better. (S)

09. Samantha Glass

 

I've been trying to buy some Samantha Glass (band, not a girl named Samantha) cassettes (their preferred mode of musical delivery) for the past couple days, but both labels that released this band's stuff are too cool (or whatever) to have sensible websites. Luckily you can freak freely to their mysterious Krautgloom all you want on Bandcamp. And you should. Dark, weird, super groovy.

08. Tommy Bolin

Speaking of doing allot in a short time, This guy blazed a trail through the Rock 'n Roll big top faster and brighter than most. Somehow he is not a household name? Despite being the lead guitar in the Zephyr,  playing on a Jazz Fusion classic (Billy Cobham's Spectrum), recording two records with James Gang, and replacing Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple and busting out two solo records, than dying at the age of 25 of an OD!  (S)

07. The Slasher Movie Book - ah, the simple pleasures of a good 80's slice n' dice. Slashers were huge in the day-glo decade, and for good reason: they delivered the goods. The goods, of course, being blood, boobs, laughs (usually unintentional), and a twist ending (usually telegraphed in the first five minutes). The Slasher Movie Book covers the golden age and looks ahead, and it does it exactly the way I prefer, these days: with lots of cool, color pictures and not a whole lot of text. I'm a man of leisure, after all. A pretty perfect summer read.  (K)

06. Floored Genius: The Best of Julian Cope and The Teardrop Explodes 1979-91

I think this is right up there with Alice Copper's greatest Hits as the best greatest hits album of all time, if there is such a thing, I think there is. Sometimes that's all you really need. If you have found Julians work to be a little confounding to sift through this 1992 comp does it for you. It starts with the Teardrop and takes you up to Peggy Suicide. Cool!  (S)

05. Julia Stone 

Julia and her brother Angus are Australian pastoral pop-folkies who have been playing together since the mid-2000's and are apparently big news in places more culturally refined then here, but I just happened to stumble on 'em this week, and I am most definitely smitten by Julia's soulful sad-girl music. Julia started doing solo stuff in the past couple years, and her new album, By the Horns, is killer. If you like Vashti Bunyan, The Pierces, and/or Anna Ternheim, or just melancholy pretty girls with guitars in general, then you're gonna dig this. Also, she sounds just like Melanie (Safka)!  (K)

04. The Art Of War by Sun Tzu

I'm reading the Thomas Cleary translation now. It's great! You don't have to be into killing pople and war to read this book. It's  good advice when you have to do anything strategic. All you hippies should get into it, might help when the  Apocalypse  comes and we have to start our own Advanced Demonology war tribe, with dune buggies…… (S)

03. Satanism afoot in Great Britain

Seems almost quaint, given this week's surge of grisly mayhem (the face eating guy, the throwing-his-own-intestines-at-cops guy), but apparently there's some horse-flaying Satanic creeps running loose in merry olde England. I can only assume it's a hippie devil cult run a long-maned acid-rocker and populated by busty Ingrid Pitt types in peasant blouses and dandelion headbands. Lock up your barns!  (K)

02. The Tamrons: Wild Man

What's a Tamron? I don't know but I like it!  It's friday!!!(S)

01.Cool Skull 

the Ep is coming kids and you download the title track for FREE now. (S)