Fishbone- Party At Ground Zero
This is the first single from Fishbone’s 1985 debut album Fishbone. The video was directed by Henry Selick who went on to later direct The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline.
Fishbone are playing at The Roxy on Friday, 12/18/15.
Stone Temple Pilots- Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart
I was originally going to post this video in the coming weeks when Scott Weiland was supposed to play in Los Angeles. Sadly he passed away a week ago today (12/3/15).
This song is off Stone Temple Pilots third album Tiny Music…Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop which was released in 1996. The lyrics were written by Weiland and he also titled his 2011 autobiography Not Dead and Not for Sale.
The Dandy Warhols- Not if You Were The Last Junkie on Earth
This song was released as the second single from the 1997 album …The Dandy Warhols Come Down. The video was directed by David LaChapelle, most famous for his surreal candy colored celebrity photographs.
There are still tickets for The Dandy Warhols shows at the Teregram Ballroom on 12/3 and 12/4/15.
Public Image Ltd- (This is not a) Love Song
This 1983 single, from Public Image Ltd, reached number 5 on the UK Singles Chart. The band was started in 1978 by singer John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols, guitarist Keith Levene (a former member of The Clash), bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker.
Those who know Los Angeles will recognize the Century City location and the Century Plaza Towers in the video.
Public Image Ltd are playing at the Fonda Theatre on Sunday (11/29/15).
Primal Scream- Loaded
This song, the first single released from Primal Scream’s 1991 album Screamadelica, was actually released in February of 1990, months before that album was released. It was the band’s first top UK top 40 hit. Loaded contains a sample of Peter Fonda’s speech from the 1966 film The Wild Angels seen below.
Primal Scream are playing at the Hollywood Palladium with The Cult on Friday 11/20/15.
Squeeze- Up the Junction
This is from Squeeze’s 1979 album Cool For Cats. According to an article in The Guardian, in which the songwriters Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford discuss Up the Junction, the video was filmed in the kitchen of John Lennon’s old house where the Imagine video was made.
Tilbrook and Difford will be at the Wilshire Ebell for Squeeze Acoustic – “The At Odds Couple”- An Evening with Difford & Tilbrook on Saturday 11/14/15.
Lauryn Hill- Everything is Everything
This song is from Lauryn Hill’s 1999 debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. It was also the first commercial appearance of John Legend, who played piano on the song and was still in his late teens at the time (info via Wiki).
Hill is playing at The Observatory in Santa Ana on Thursday 11/5/15.
The Ramones- Pet Sematary
This song was written for the film adaptation of the Stephen King book of the same name and appears on the Ramones 1989 album Brain Drain.
Cinefamily on Fairfax is showing Pet Sematary as a double feature with The Oracle on Friday 10/23/15.
Also, if you are at Hollywood Forever for their Dia de los Muertos celebration on Saturday make sure to check out Johnny Ramone’s grave located near the mausoleum.
Run The Jewels- Banana Clipper (feat. Big Boi)
Killer Mike and El-P’s collaboration, Run The Jewels, is having a good year. They played Coachella this past April and are now on tour around the country. There are tickets available for their show at the Fox Theater in Pomona on Friday 10/16/15, which is the closest they are coming to Los Angeles for awhile.
The song above is off their first self titled album from 2013 and has Big Boi of Outkast, providing guest vocals. Killer Mike was featured on Outkast’s 2001 song The Whole World. Currently their second album, Run The Jewels 2, is on their website as a free download. You can also download a free version of that album remixed by Just Blaze, Zola Jesus, Dan the Automator and more, with cat sounds added, called Meow the Jewels, created after a very popular Kickstarter campaign.