NIN/Health/Gary Numan - "Anthrax" (live)

Trent, Gary and the boys from Health do a searing cover of "Anthrax" by Gang of Four during the NIN/Health tour stop in LA. Awesome.

C.O.M.B.I. - Stone Waters

C.O.M.B.I - Stone Waters

yowza. Rowdy NY disco lords Rub-n-Tug can always be trusted to bring the fire, and their rock-tinged edits in particular, like "I'm a Man" by Chicago, are especially nuts. Along those lines check out this one by half of RnT, Eric Duncan, aka Dr. Dunks - included on his insane hi-octane How We Do In NYC mix he just put out for aNYthing. "Stone Waters" sounds like that Santana-y part of the Rolling Stones "Can You Hear Me Knockin'", only more grooved up and drugged out - blistering brown-acid rock disco. One of the best things I've heard all year. I guess this is an edit? of what?

the wild ones

Hecuba is an electronic duo whose sounds fuses edgy electronic cabaret with fifties pop melodies - imagine if The Knife moved to Los Angeles. Like A.R.E. Weapons they enjoy street-electro topped with jukebox crooning, but Hecuba are bit more art-school queers than rowdy Alan Vega-obsessed Yankees fans. The new video for "Suffering" is an homage to fifties biker culture whose most obvious predecessor is Kenneth Anger's Kustom Kar Kommandos:



perhaps less well-known but equally awesome are photos taken by Karlheinz Weinberger in the early sixties of teen gangs in Switzerland - obsessed with American idols like Elvis and James Dean yet isolated from the cultural milieu that originally spawned them, these gangs made up their own outfits and styles, combinations of greaser gear and metal-industrial accessories that look like clothes for a post-apocalyptic sock hop. check out the horseshoe belt buckle, bullet necklace, and skull medallion.

Podcast: The Raw & The Crooked Vol. 2

DJ Still Life: The Raw & The Crooked Vol. 2

The latest from trusted AC associate DJ Still Life..."Volume 2 of The Raw & the Crooked has dropped. Reflective of the sticky heat, perhaps, there's of bit of dub aesthetic mixed in with the usual barrage of bust your shit open beats, rock screeches, and crunch crunch crunch. Hope it dirties up your summer."