The Life of GG Allin
Kevin Michael “GG” Allin (August 29, 1956 – June 28, 1993) was an American punk rock singer-songwriter who performed and recorded with many punk-rock groups during his career. Allin is best remembered for his notorious live performances that typically featured wildly transgressive acts such as Allin defecating and urinating onstage, rolling in feces and often consuming excrement, committing self-injury, performing naked, and committing violent actions toward the audience—often doing many of these things simultaneously. Although more notorious for his stage antics than for his wide body of music, he recorded prolifically, not only in the punk rock genre, but also in spoken word, country and Rolling Stones-influenced rock. His politically incorrect lyrics, which often covered subjects such as misogyny, pedophilia and racism, deeply divided opinions of him within the highly politicized punk community. Though he has a devoted cult following, Allin’s music has received mostly negative reviews from critics.
Here is an entire episode of Jerry Springer that featured GG Allin. What a maniac.
Here is video if the last day GG Allin was alive. He stormed out of his last show after the venue lost power and he proceeded to trash the streets of NYC.
There is a documentary about his life called Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies. You can watch the entire thing after the jump.
A Hometown Spotlight: Wing & Tusk by Wes Keyes
I was supposed to do this a while ago, so I sincerely apologize. Columbus group Wing & Tusk have released their first album titled The Secret Of ToadFlax Tea. If you can’t tell from the name, this is a story album. The story behind Toadflax was written by Josh Rea and Nat Hagey. The four other members of Wing & Tusk are Roseanne Claiborne, Daniel Bennett, Sally Louise Polk and Chris Manis. Basically, without giving away any information whatsoever, the story involves a doctor, two monks, Toadflax and the plague. The music on this album is beautifully played and seems to fit with the theme of this story perfectly. I’m not entirely sure how the live sets come off but will find out this Tuesday when they play the Treehouse.
You can check out a bunch of their music at http://www.thesixtyone.com/wingandtusk/
Sep 22 @ Treehouse 9pm
Sep 26 @ The Basement w/ Heartless Bastards
Sep 27 @ Just Cause Festival, 1610 W. Lane Ave.
Sep 29 @ Treehouse w/ Seedy Seeds and The Jaguar Club
Better Than Ice Cream, Vol. 47 by Wes Keyes
Our friends up north continue to make amazing music. We don’t always get to hear/see the awards shows in Canada that recognize these artists, this is true with the Polaris Music Prize. The prize is to be given away on September 21 and I thought it would make a good post, seeing as how there are so many good artists involved. Established in 2006, The Polaris Music Prize is a $20k prize given to the best Canadian full length album. 178 jurors are selected from various Canadian music contributors such as bloggers, broadcasters and journalists. Out of I don’t know how many submissions, the list is whittled to 40 albums, then down to 10 finalists. Here are just a few songs from the short list of finalists, head to the Polaris website for the entire long and short lists as well as other free mp3′s..
Hey Rosetta! – Their first full length Into Your Lungs is following up their Plan Your Escape EP.
Elliott Brood – Mountain Meadows is the new release following Ambassador and Tin Type EP. This is “Wolfgang” from 2006′s Ambassador.
Metric – Fantasies is the fourth album from Broken Social Scene members Emily Haines and James Shaw. Emily has a great voice, check out her solo album Knives Don’t Have Your Back released in 2006. Here is “IOU” from 2003′s Old World Underground.
Burnout of the Week
[guest blog by Jimmy]
I’m sure some of you have never come to grasp the amazingness of a properly performed burnout. Perhaps it’s the hillbilly in me but I like to believe everyone digs the sight of someone that isn’t afraid to completely blow the tires off. I’ll be the first to say that I love all burnouts whether it’s a a 600 wheel horsepower hell machine or a 1985 Chevy Astro van with a peg leg completely blowing minds outside of Hooters on a Friday night (big ups to my dude Steve Helm CSJ III represent).
What I’m trying to do with these posts is give the uniformed person a crash course on the proper technique of creating a smoke show. I’m going to be covering the amazing as well as the complete garbage. I know a lot of you are already down with the burnout and will appreciate this. My goal is to build a love in those of you who have no idea about the tire beat down.
So here it is….. I give you the “Burnout of the Week.”
What an idiot.
I love how the bike keeps partying long after this dude goes down…. and check that attempt at getting up only to submit and return to the ground.
Garbage.
Inspector Gadget: Beer Bottle Edition
Columbus does not have any talented beggers. “Help is on the way” guy has a good gimmick, but his rhymes are garbage. Has anyone seen a good one in Columbus?
I did see Chaz do a backflip off a van for a dollar.
Jamie Foxx Destroys Doug Williams in Comedy Roast
Jamie Foxx completely owns Doug Williams when he makes a lame attempt to be funny. Check out Doug’s face after he sits down. Dude looks like he wants to kill himself. Jaime kilt ‘em.
Thanks to Molly for the link!
Adulture + Figure = Le Principle
“Adulture” and “Figure” bring you their new chicago house project “Le Principle” and a track from the new EP Soul Filter.
Tune in Tuesdays with CJ Townsend
Surprisingly this week’s post is late because of me, not CJ…
“CLUB SUPER SEX IS COMMING….GET READY TO F*** ON THE DANCEFLOOR”
Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness (feat. MGMT & Ratatat)
Armless Getaway Driver Crashes After Robbery
A gang that masterminded a £175,000 robbery made a big burglary blunder in using a getaway driver with no arms. After the raid on the jewelers in Essex the four gang members jumped in John Smith’s waiting car and took off as police gave chase.
Unfortunately things got complicated as Smith, 18, has no arms below his elbows and his gang members had to help change gears. Smith, who cannot dress himself and lives with his mother, drove for 30 miles before crashing.
He was given a 12-month youth custody sentence, suspended for two years, the Daily Mail reported.
Thanks to Bethany for the link!
Basketblog Tournament @ Daymon Day
I’m going to borrow Wes Flexner’s post from Done Waiting:
Daymon Day will be returning to Tuttle Park, Saturday 9-19-09. There will be basketball, mural painting, dejay’s and a cookout from 3-8pm culiminating with the highlight of any god-fearing/foreign car stearing humyn’s week, the Daymon Day Parade. The parade leaves at 8 and journeys down the scenic campus of the Ohio State University until it reaches community hub, the Milk Bar, which is located on 5th and. High. There will be an after-party at a currently undisclosed location featuring DJ Lo Zone, True Skills, DJ Detox, and DJ Pos 2. All are welcome. We regret that this is the same day as Independents’ Day downtown, but this the day that we confirmed with Daymon’s family months ago. We are sure everything is going to be ok. All welcome.
The basketblog tourney is starting around noon. Winner gets a warm case of PBR!!!
Old School Clips From Inception
Steven Hamilton just posted all the videos from the original Inception video on his blog. There are a lot of familiar faces in the videos, but I’m going to post the one that I’m in. The first clip is video of me hitting my friend Josh with my car at Easton. Afterwards he crawled to the curb and I burned out and fled the scene. Multiple people ran to Josh’s side and gave him my lisence plate info.
No charges were ever filed.
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