Posts by Zach Johnson

Continuing our spotlight on Brian Eno this week, for today’s Tuesday’s Gone, we’re looking at his remarkable footage live in studio recording “Needles in the Camel’s Eye” from 1973. As the opening number from his mind-bending debut solo album Here Come the Warm Jets, it helps set the tone for the markedly bizarre musical journey. […]

This week we’ll be spotlighting legendary musician/producer extraordinaire, the brilliant Brian Eno. Truly an artist in every sense of the word, Eno has been in the news a lot lately thanks to Gary Hustwit’s fantastic new documentary of the same name (Eno), which randomly selects elements from 30 hours of interviews and 500 hours of […]

When Wire seeming broke-up for good after their original three-peat of classic albums in the late-70s, they surprised most everyone by reforming in the mid-80s and releasing their 4th studio album The Ideal Copy in 1987. Perhaps the only thing more surprising than the fact they even reunited in the first place was their new […]

Continuing with our spotlight on Wire this week, today we’re serving up this remarkably dense performance of “A Touching Display” from 1979 at Rockpalast, which finds the band at arguably their artistic and creative late-70s peak. Granted, if you associate their “artistic and creative peak” with the notably foreboding sound that characterizes “A Touching Display”, […]

It takes a special kind of artist to constantly evolve and change their style whilst still producing compelling and quality material in the process. Indeed, while the artistic trajectory for many bands can often be a long and winding road, only a select few manage to go through distinctively intense, accessible, and experimental periods and […]

New Year’s hangover got you down? Well, if that happens to be the case, we regret to inform you that this peculiar performance by Nina Hagen from 1979 probably won’t help on that front. Haven said that it’s still a pretty captivating operatically gothy performance, to say the least…not to mention distinctly animated, bizarre, and […]

Let’s face it: New Year’s Eve can be kind of a shitshow, especially when you’re young. But you know what? It’s hard to argue those aren’t the most fun or memorable ones (provided you actually can remember them). Indeed, chances are many of us have had our fair share of shit-tastic NYEs that we nonetheless […]

With New Year’s Eve (otherwise known as “Amateur Night”) right around the corner, for our final Manic Monday of 2024, we’re throwing it back to this killer NYE performance by Alice In Chains on MTV from 1992. This video not only captures the band in top form, with rad renditions of “Would?”, “Angry Chair”, and […]

Is there anything weirder than an awkward pairing? Probably (as evidenced by some of the selections from this column over the past year), but nonetheless, today we have one of the more notorious examples of odd holiday bedfellows, courtesy of David Bowie and Bing Crosby, who collaborated on a peculiar duet of “Little Drummer Boy” […]

There’s a lot of folks out there that think practically all Christmas songs suck, but you know what? That simply isn’t true. Granted, it’s almost impossible to make a Christmas song that isn’t at least marginally corny and/or eyeroll-inducing (which is often kind of the point), but you know what helps on that front? Soul. […]

Sticking with our punky Merry Manic Monday selections for this month, here we have yet another example of a Christmas song from a classic band that actually doesn’t suck (and also happens to rock pretty hard to boot)! Today’s offering comes from The Kinks, as they perform a rightfully punchy version of “Father Christmas” live […]

Tom Waits has always had a soft spot for the so-called dregs of society. Deadbeat alcoholics, the lonely, the poor, alley cats, drug addicts, all of the above, you name it, he’s always been great at finding the beauty and humanity in the most unsavory of characters. And that extends to hookers too of course, […]

It’s easy to get a little cynical around the holidays. Between all the insufferable hype and shamelessly rampant consumerism, sometimes it feels like there’s no escape from the superficial “glee” that seems to be around every corner this time of the year. But occasionally, you encounter something that feels so genuine, pure, and frankly heartwarming […]

Remember that one time when George Harrison really wanted to be a pirate on a very special Christmas edition of Rutland Weekend Television way back in 1976? Oh, wait, what’s that, you don’t? Then feast your eyes on his hilarious performance, which starts out instrumentally as an apparently faithful rendition of “My Sweet Lord”, but […]

Are you allowed to listen to Two-tone ska in December? Of fucking course, you are! Especially when it’s a classic live performance by The Specials on Top of the Pops from way back in December of 1980. Here we find the band performing one of their all-time best songs, the pensive “Do Nothing.” The fact […]

Like it or not, it’s officially the holiday season. But whether you welcome the standard December hoopla with a joyful “hoop-de-do”, or a begrudging “bah-humbug”, this writer his here to help you navigate all the good and the bad the holidays have to offer from a music perspective. Indeed, the season doesn’t have to be […]

Rounding out our Thanksgiving-themed selections this week, we’re serving up this classic Arlo Guthrie performance of “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” (aka “Alice’s Restaurant”) from 1970. While you could certainly make the argument that this notoriously long-winded and peculiarly humorous talking-blues story is essential to listening to every Thanksgiving, it carries a little extra added weight this […]

Most everybody knows that Martin Scorsese’s classic movie The Last Waltz is one of the greatest concert films of all time, a fantastic documentary of The Band’s farewell performance at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco that took place one magical night way back in 1976. It was no ordinary evening indeed, not only because […]

It’s Thanksgiving week here in the States, so to help whet your appetite for that notoriously gluttonous holiday, we’re serving up some scrumptious old-school KoЯn via this vicious performance of “Clown” from 1995. People tend to forget just how legitimately twisted and dingy the band was when they first burst onto the scene with their […]

Everyone remembers the first time they feasted their eyes and ears on the splendors, peculiarities, and wonders that characterized Indian cinema in the 1980s. Oh wait, what’s that? You, the loyal Glide reader, have never experienced the uniquely theatrical (for lack of a better term) entertainment of such classic films like Adavi Donga, for example? If that’s the case, […]