SUEDEHEAD! ROCK STEADY STYLE

Nice piece from British television about the origins and influence of Mod, Ska, Soul Boy Suede and Skinhead culture. From Rocksteady, Ska and Reggae to Northern Soul and Punk. Bust out your Fred Perry.

Whom..?



This IS the ROCKSTEDY!


Suede Whip!

Mod Father rockin' some Suede style

The Specials - Two Tone Suede Style

The Good, the Bad and the Fred. Albarn


Double-Oh Style


Soul Patch

Going Steady in Spain 2012!

PICTURES LIFTED FROM STYLE FORUM (see More!)
and SUBCULTURES LIST + CROCODILE JOCK tumbler
F*CK YEAH SKA

SUPER POP! Magazine IPANEMA BEAT '70s Style

I found a half a dozen issues of Super Pop! magazine at a flea market in Rio years ago. It was a newspaper style music paper in Brazil in the early 70s. There are music, art and theater reviews, gossip, news, photos, comics, jokes...
Groovy cultural ephemera from post-Tropicalia Brasil. Each issue contains a fold-out poster. Check out a very young and sexy Gal Costa below.

MEU NOME E GAL!

"NEW FACE OF IPANEMA"

HERE COME THE NOVOS BAIANOS!

MESTRE JARDS MACALE

DREAMED OF LONDON AND TOOK BAHIA THERE

ANDY'S CHEST

OR SUPER POP!!!!

THE BREAKFAST CLUB FACTION

(Above) Classic scene in the Breakfast Club when Judd Nelson starts to tell the 'naked blonde, poodle, salami' joke, but never gets to finish because he falls through the ceiling.

(Below) The Faction were a killer skate punk band from San Jose in the mid-eighties that featured pro skater Steve Caballero.

Here's their cover of the Mamas and Papas 'California Dreamin', which becomes the bad ass punchline to the mystery joke. Love the tweaked lyrics about watching MTV all day and not being able to buy a coke. Straight old school California style!

DOOM RIDE! TRON'S BLUES

"Doom Riders!"  Maybe cuz Mike Watt had 'Hell Ride' written on his bass... Shout out to Wood from Man is the Bastard!  Finally saw the new Tron movie on DVD, so I dug up a mix from last year. Cool Indie, Psych, Dub, Hip Hop, New Wave weirdness...

tracks in order:

Red Red Meat, Grifters, Redd Kross, Small Faces, Fleetwood Mac, MC 900 Ft Jesus (edit), Muddy Waters, Dr Octagon, Tones On Tails, Medium Medium, Art Fleury, The Slew, Blk Jks, Chico Science, Queens of the Stone Age + Built to Spill

DJ CLARK QUENTE: DOOM RIDE!

KALEIDOSCOPE: BLUES FOR ALLAH

For some reason The Growlers got me thinking about Kaleidoscope and lo-and-behold Everloving Records, who put out The Growlers last EP (Hot Tropics), put out a couple obscure records by former Kaleidoscope member Chris Darrow. The band also featured David Lindley.

'Keep Your Mind Open' always sounded like a Guide By Voices track to me, though not sure why.
'Sefan' and 'Taxim' also have the Greek/Eastern vibe.

The Real Blues For Allah!

THE GROWLERS: JETS TO BRASIL AND THE HOT TROPICS

Get ready to hear a lot more from The Growlers. Their next record is being produced by The Black Keys Dan Auerbach and should drop very soon and they play Coachella this year. Dig their already solid brew of surf, psychedelia, blues, Americana... I see the Morrison thing in the beach bum vibe. Didn't the Doors form in Santa Monica? Also in the west coast sunny doom sound sound ala The Doors, The Byrds. The tunes have some of the parlor music vibe Morrison and the Doors messed with. Love the Jack Coleman videos in that old school Super 8 style. They were down in Brazil for Rock in Rio and played with Los Hermanos Marcelo Camelo. Check the live footage and the mini-movie below.

ADELE SEBASTIAN-DESERT FAIRY PRINCESS

I tend to get obsessed with certain artists or groups and end up trying to track down there records. Adele Sebastian was a flute player who played with Horace Tapscott's People's Pan African Arkestra. I have been reading "The Dark Tree", a book written about Tapscott's group and the Los Angles community art scene that grew up around it. Sebastian's one LP is a holy grail among Spiritual/Soulfull Jazz collectors. Tragically, she died at the age of twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. You can pick-up the CD at dustygroove.com for around eleven bucks. Wax is going top cost you a lot more...! All but the last track posted here for your listening pleasure.