Funkadelic - Super Stupid An anti-smack tale that’s heavier than dinosaur shit. Thrilling, sexy, frightening; a sound early Funkadelic excelled at. There’s great, and then there’s Eddie Hazel great. 1971.

The CRAMPS and Alex Chilton Interview for Channel 13 Eyewitness News at Sam Phillips Studios in Memphis, TN in 1979. Filmed while Recording the tracks for their first LP "Songs The Lord Taught Us"

'The Boy With The Arab Strap' turns 28 today! The title was inspired by fellow Scots Arab Strap, who we had toured with. We spent months in the studio working to create one of our most collaborative records yet!

“Thrust” by Herbie Hancock was released on this day in 1974.

CITIZEN KANE was released 85 years ago today. For all the advances in filmmaking, this shot still feels untouchable.

“Swordfishtrombones” by Tom Waits was released 43 years ago today.

Rest in peace, Dolly Parton… A remarkable artist, storyteller, and cultural icon whose music and presence touched generations. Her extraordinary talent, warmth, and enduring legacy will be deeply missed and forever remembered.

Gene Clark - No Other Gene at his trippiest, and most spiritual, reflecting on the nature of oneness. A serpentine, one-of-a-kind listening experience that sounds ambitious even now. 1974.

“Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush was released as a single 41 years ago today.

“Innervisions” by Stevie Wonder was released 53 years ago today.

Linda Perhacs was found safe and well after friends reported her missing pitchfork.com/story/linda-pe…

The release of Jean Renoir's "The Southerner" (1945) provoked intense negative reactions in various locations throughout Southern regions of the USA. Some people from the South viewed the movie as "Sordid depiction of life in the Southern States" & strongly objected it. The film was banned from being shown in Tennessee by Lloyd T. Binford, who served as the head of the Memphis Board of Censors for three decades & considered "The toughest censor in America". Disgusted by the movie, he condemned the film as a "slur against Southern farmers" and for its characters being portrayed as nothing more than "common, lowdown, ignorant white trash". The Ku Klux Klan also condemned the movie advocated boycotting it at theaters elsewhere in the South. the condemnation of the movie was by no means universal in the region. The United Daughters of the Confederacy was one of the movie's supporters. The organization endorsed the film and complimented how its lead characters exemplified the South's best attributes of "'courage, stout-heartedness and love of our land'" ("Banned in Memphis", Memphis Flyer, 2008. "The Southerner - Film Plot and Review", Mirella Jona Affron, Film Reference. "The Southerner", Lorraine LoBianco , TCM & Wiki)

47 years ago today, “Risqué” by CHIC was released.

The Rolling Stones - Fingerprint File Greasy funk, with Jagger in paranoid form, that showed they’d been absorbing dance music long before Black and Blue. The sound of a band learning how to slink. 1974.

RT @SalvadorDafti: Eddie Hazel - I Want You (She’s So Heavy) The maestro taking one of the heavier, more obsessive Beatles songs and turni…

Love - The Red Telephone Menacing, with a downright unsettling edge. Steeped in sorrow, anti-war sentiment, and a darkness that really should feel out of place on an album this sonically gorgeous. 1967

Russ Meyer on the regret he had for not casting Tura Satana in another movie besides "Faster, Pussycat! Ki||! Ki||!" (1965): “I really made a mistake. I should’ve used her in another film. I couldn’t have done it with anybody else. She and I made the movie, We had this confrontation that was constantly, ‘Who was the strongest?’ Not physically strongest, mentally strongest. I could never put one over on her, and nor could she really with me.” Tura Satana on why the movie meant so much to her: “You know something? It makes me very humble. I get e-mail from women all over the world—Italy, Spain, Japan, Brazil, China. I’d hate to tell you how many women say, ‘Thank you for showing us we can be feminine and still be independent. We don’t have to rely on men.’ I’m happy I’ve had an influence on females this way.” Tura let out an evil little chuckle. “Can you imagine being a Susan Bernard all your life? If I get a flat, I change my own tire. You don’t have to be a namby-pamby. You can still be feminine and have balls.” P.S: Remembering Tura Satana on her 88th birthday!

Gram Parsons - Brass Buttons A tender remembrance, thought to be written for his mother, as the music cradles the vocals impeccably. One of the most beautiful songs in the Parsons songbook. 1974.

“Five Leaves Left” by Nick Drake was released 57 years ago today.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Electricity An abstract ode to the wonders of energy, and taste of things to come. Sounding like a bad-trip Howlin’ Wolf, twisting the blues into something brilliantly strange and unsettling. 1967.