Alixandrea Corvyn makes her deserved bid for fame.

This is Alixandrea Corvyn, of Last July and Rhombus and various previous bands. It’s a cover of “White Rabbit”, but with this grasp of imagery she’s on the right track. This video is just made to be cut up into stills and GIFs and reassembled into viral Tumblr posts.

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I threw up on Lux Interior.

It was mid-1986, at the Red Parrot in Perth (name and logo blatantly nicked from the New York club of the same name) in Perth. I was nineteen and had been going out to see bands and drinking in earnest for six months. The Cramps had played (the Canterbury Court Friday 22 August 1986 show, I think) and went there for after-show drinks.

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Do the ostrich.

Hat-tip Lawrence Miles. “I still prefer to remember him this way.” From “Modern Dance” from Ecstasy.

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The history of prog.

David Weigel, a political reporter for Slate, is in the midst of a series on the history of prog rock. It’s really quite frightening.

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