Monday, May 25, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #116 - The 39 Steps (1935, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

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“How old is Mae West?!?”             The world may never know how old Mae West was (or rather they will, as this IS the age of the inte...
Monday, May 18, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #129 - Steely Dan – Countdown to Ecstasy

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Once upon a time, there was a band called Steely Dan. A real band, with a regular lineup, they even went on tour. The era of Donald Fagen a...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #115 - Fresh (1994, dir. Boaz Yakin)

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Back in 1994, this film arrived with a bit of a buzz from the awards it won at Sundance. It was being marketed in the wake of gangsta fil...
Monday, May 4, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #128 - Miles Davis - Agharta

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The first sounds you hear on this two-disc live set are notes from Miles’s Yamaha electric organ before they’re joined by a dense, ch...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #114 - Blackboard Jungle (1955, dir. Richard Brooks)

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Blackboard Jungle is the first “teacher-with-a-heart-of-gold saves a classroom full of no-goodniks” film. It gave birth to an entire sub-g...
Monday, April 20, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #127 - Amon Duul II - Tanz Der Lemminge

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Tanz Der Lemminge , the third album by Amon Duul II from 1971, is, ridiculously, considered their first accessible album after two wildly f...
Monday, April 13, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #113 - Mallrats (1995, dir. Kevin Smith)

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Brodie: There is something out there that can help us ease our simultaneous double loss. T.S. Quint: What? Ritual suicide? Brodie: No...
Monday, April 6, 2015

Otis Taylor – Hey Joe Opus Red Meat

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Want to be proud of something from Colorado? Check out Colorado’s real blues legend’s new album. Recorded in Colorado at Immersive Studi...

I'd Love to Turn You On #126 - Trans Am - Futureworld

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Trans Am never seemed like a band built for the long haul, but here we are, 20 years and 10 albums later. Turns out that Kraftwerk-meets-Ru...
Monday, March 30, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #112 - The Thin Man (1934, dir. W.S. Van Dyke)

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Wait, you mean you haven’t seen The Thin Man ? Seriously?  But it was one of the top grossing films of 1934! And it has huge stars in it!...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #125 - Gilberto Gil – Gilberto Gil (1969)

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Gilberto Gil’s 1969 album, which like his 1968 and 1971 albums is simply entitled Gilberto Gil , is a wild mélange of psychedelic pop, Br...
Monday, March 16, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #111 - Cape Fear (1962, dir. J. Lee Thompson/1991, dir. Martin Scorsese)

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Two movies, made twenty-nine years apart: same title, same basic plot, yet morally a universe apart. The original, starring Gregory Peck ...
Friday, March 6, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #124 - Paul Kantner - Blows Against The Empire

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One of the more important figures in 1960’s rock and roll, Paul Kantner, the founder and idealistic heart of The Jefferson Airplane, has ha...
Monday, March 2, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #111 - Logan’s Run (1976, dir. Michael Anderson)

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“Computer: Do you identify the word Sanctuary? Logan 5: Negative. Computer: Sanctuary is a pre-catastrophe code word. Used for a plac...
Monday, February 23, 2015

I'd Love to Turn You On #123 - Meat Puppets – Up On The Sun

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Meat Puppets first burst out of the Arizona desert in the early 80s as one of the key bands on legendary punk label SST.  But while they st...