I’ve done about 800 original interviews for SuicideGirls and probably a couple thousand more for other venues, so I think it’s fair to say that I’ve gotten pretty good at working around people’s tertiary expressions like, “oh man” and “yeah.” But when you’ve got a legend like Bootsy Collins saying “yeah mama, baby and man,” it would be sacrilegious to delete it.
Collins is best known as one of the co-founders of the seminal 1970s funk group Parliament Funkadelic, but I really got into his work in the early ’90s when he teamed up with Bill Laswell and Buckethead. As Collins and I discuss in this interview, that was a golden era — and it’s still going on today. Bootsy’s latest album, Christmas is 4 Ever, features many new songs by Bootsy and his crew.
Oh Sunset Strip Music Fest, you dirty little bitch. Once a year, all leather-clad miscreants venture out in the sun for a little bit of daytime drinking (or maybe a lot) and rocking all along Sunset Blvd. We were there and here’s how it went down:
This Sunday (August 28th) listeners will be fighting to contain their aural and sexual excitement, as their senses get over-stimulated by our very special in-studio guest, rock & roll’s ultimate love guru, sex god, and would be porn king, who goes by a multitude of names. Whether you know him as Jesse Hughes, The Devil, J. Devil, Boots, Boots Electric, Fabulous Weapon or simply as Big Boy, he’s sure to entertain you and leave you begging for more. Tune in to get your hip quake on, and have some lube and a box of tissues standing by*.
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“I have a monstrous imagination.”
– Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chilean born filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky changed the world in 1971 when he released El Topo, a bizarre psychedelic Mexican western. The film became an immediate hit on the burgeoning midnight movie scene. Since then Jodorowsky has done a number of wonderful films, all fascinating and beautiful, such as Holy Mountain, The Rainbow Thief and Santa Sangre. They are all highly personal tales filled with commentary on religion, sex and so much more. Jodorowsky has also done groundbreaking work on comic books with such legendary artists as Moebius, Georges Bess, Juan Gimenez and many more.
Now, after 30 years, Jodorowsky and his distributor Abkco films have settled their differences and finally El Topo and Holy Mountain will be re-released in theaters and enjoy proper DVD releases. I had a chance to talk with Jodorowsky in person on a recent visit to New York City.
“What you think is happening is not actually happening.” – Alan Robert
Alan Robert is best known as a musician and singer/songwriter of the bands Life of Agony and Spoiler NYC, but he was first and foremost a comic guy. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he studied cartooning under Walt Simonson and others, the rock star is now in the midst of his second career as a comics artist and writer. At a time when celebrities will put their names on a comic but let others do all the work, Robert is creating comics that are written, drawn, colored and even lettered by him and include back page material taking readers through his process and workspace and have some fun along the way.
After the success of last year’s miniseries Wire Hangers, IDW is releasing a new miniseries from Robert starting this month. Crawl To Me is a strange dark tale that was created in just a matter of months and shows growth and experimentation over his work published just a year ago. Talking with the budding horror icon is a real inspiration and it’s clear that Robert is having the time of his life.
There are thousands of hip-hop fans out there who want to know how Ice-T is going to bring himself back to the kind of success and popularity he enjoyed in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Well, all your memories of Law & Order and Leprechaun in the Hood will fade away once you hear the new Body Count album, Murder 4 Hire. Though most of the original members of Body Count have passed away, Ice-T and Ernie C have brought together a new Count to show you what gangsta rap is all about.
In the ranks of great DJs worldwide we must acknowledge those brilliant artists who dont speak any English. Any list of seminal DJs must include DJ Krush. Krush started his career in the 1980s and by the early ’90s he was already heralded as one of the greats.
His most recent project is Stepping Stones: The Self-Remixed Best, a two disc set. One disc called Lyricism and features collaborations with MCs. The second disc is called Soundscapes and contains remixes of instrumental pieces. This interview was conducted through a translator.
