Dial P for Pussy Galore: Part TwoClick here for part one***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****Combining garage rock rhythms with bursts of noise, New York's own Pussy Galore were taking no musical prisoners–from song titles to album titles to damag-ed song structures, they were all about attitude.-- I Heart Noise***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****"Why," I asked Jon about Pussy Galore's latest release, "if the fulltitle is Dial 'M' for Motherfucker, does it read Dial 'M' on the cov-ers and spines of all three configurations? What's up with that?"Apparently, this wasn't censorship in action on the part of Car-oline, thei

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Dial P for Pussy GaloreHere's another in my series of musician interviews for KCMU's long-defunct mouthpiece Wire. In this one, I speak with Pussy Galore's Jon Spencer, who would go on to form the more commercially viable Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (JSBX) and Heavy Trash. Along the way, he has collaborated with the likes of Andre Williams, the Gibson Brothers, Dub Narcotic Sound System, and wife Cristina Martinez in Boss Hog.***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****Pussy Galore created an unholy metallic ruckus that was part serious avant-garde noise wail, part nonsense pose.-- John Dougan, All Music Guide***** ***** ***** ***** ***

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Movie of the Month: Part EightI recently reviewed the following film for Video Librarian, and thought the results were worth sharing.SCOTT WALKER: 30 CENTURY MAN (Stephen Kijak, 2006, US, 95 mins.) "It was this thing that seemed to be flowing outside of time in a way."-- Kijak on the first time he heard Walker's voiceAfter his 1960s success with the UK-based Walker Brothers ran its course, Ohio-born Scott Walker released several solo albums, and then disappeared. Every few years, a new record would mat-erialize, but the former teen idol would not. He wasn’t finished with music-making, but he was finished with show business, and called a halt to all in

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LOOPED: Part ThreeClick here for part two***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****"Loop were best experienced live. No two gigs were ever the same, no song ever played the same twice. To them vol-ume was vital to the whole experience. Loop live were 'felt' not just seen or heard! A total assault on the senses."-- Beggar's Banquet, Pspsyched (pronounced "spiked")***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****Robert continues, "When we play live, we have no wish to repro-duce exactly note-for-note renditions of what's on the vinyl. Welike to think that we never actually play the same song twice.There's a very rough base to start with,

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LOOPED: Part TwoClick here for part oneI got theopportu-nity to talkto the trim,brown-haired Englishman before Loop's show this past May at the Backstage.For a fellow who doesn't use a last name, in the vein of pop stars Dion and Madonna, I found the musician surprisingly down-to-earth. And in light of the fact that his work frequently inspires epithets such as as "arty" and "pretentious"—which aren't comp-letely off the mark—that was a refreshing discovery. He was also quite forthcoming, though a record company rep specifically re-quested that I not ask anything about the Spacemen 3 or drugs.It's unfortunate that Robert doesn't field questions about

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LOOPEDNow that Gilded Eternity (two-CD set) and World in Your Eyes (three-CD set) are receiving the deluxe reissue treatment, this seems like the ideal time to reproduce my 1990 Wire interview with Loop front man Robert Hampson (Reactor previously reissued Heaven's End and Fade Out, so their catalog is now complete). Sadly, the band would break up a year later, and Hampson would continue on as Main...and Robert Hampson.***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****"Loop latched onto thrashed blues grooves and rode them hard, oscillating between distorted, hypnotic and ambient soundscapes while throwing in samples from 2001: A Space Odyssey for

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July ReviewsThese are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.Amazon DVDs: Weeds - Season Four [three-disc set] and Leverage - The1st Season (with Timothy Hutton) [three-disc set].Still playing (or yet to open): Chéri, Cold Souls, Food, Inc., Public Enemies, State of Play, The Stoning of Soraya M., Summer Hours, and Sunshine Cleaning.Amazon profile: Sidney Poitier for Armchair Commentary.Amazon TV project: Researched and wrote about Adam-12, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Agatha Christie's Marple, Baki the Grappler, Black Lagoon, Burke's Law, Cad-fael, Chancer, Claymore, Code Monkeys, The Commish, Dan-ger Mouse, Darker Than Black,

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