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Lambrini Girls “God’s Country”

sfilzen — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:22:01 +0000

Lambrini Girls “God’s Country” 2024. City Slang records, purple vinyl. We saw Lambrini Girls last night at the Vic Theatre in Chicago and it was just as feral and insane as expected. The mosh pit not only was tolerated but was actively encouraged – and sometimes orchestrated – by singer/guitarist Phoebe Lunny. Body passing and pogo’ing abounded. Lambrini Girls (the name I finally made an effort just now to understand: they took their name from Lambrini, a brand of pear wine described by a British daily as “aimed at the undiscriminating female drinker” and by Phoebe Lunny as “toilet wine for sluts.” (wiki)

The band played “God’s Country” (see my videoclip on Instagram), a single-only release which is backed with “Body of Mine” (which they did not play last night). The rest of their set was a mix of tracks from their 2023 release You’re Welcome including “Mr Lovebomb,” “Help Me I’m Gay” and “Craig David.” From Who Let the Dogs Out (2025) album they performed “Bad Apple,” “Company Culture, “Y0u’re Not From Around Here,” “Cuntology 101” (as a singalong!) and for their last song of the night the always epically awesome “Big Dick Energy.”

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M545 “Seven” and “I’ll Kill For Yesterday”

sfilzen — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:15:33 +0000

M545 “Seven” and “I’ll Kill For Yesterday” two 45″ singles, 2021 & 2022. Yesterday we went to our first ever Packers Halftime Show at Cactus Club to see M545 play a short and sharp 15 minute set (note the Packers helmet on the wall behind the band, they were finishing their set as the 3rd quarter was starting). M545 are a local (Bay View, Milwaukee) punk band, one of neighborhood favorites. They play great classic-style hardcore punk: fast, tight with neither whining nor growling vocals (I can’t stand either end of that spectrum in the punk canon). We picked up both of these singles at the show and both are great! Each has 3 tracks and my top is “Displaced” (from 2020): it has a very 80’s punk vibe with a menacing bass line. Also great is “Let Go” from the same disc with its barely controlled chaos and pogo-friendly beat. Members Juan (guitar/vocals) and Ted (bass/vocals) traded off singing during yesterday’s set while drummer Scottie (also backup vocals) kept things tight and on track.

Fun fact: when googling M545 is you’ll get a hit for jazz musician Pat Metheny as M545 is the catalog matrix for specific localized printing of the 1993 Turkish cassette edition of the Pat Metheny Group’s The Road To You. I’ve never listened to that album but I’m very confident it has nothing in common with Milwaukee’s M545.

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Duran Duran “Perfect Day”

sfilzen — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:08:39 +0000

Duran Duran “Perfect Day” 1995. Limited edition “Scratch ‘n’ Sniff” 7″ single. Today, April 26th, is Duran Duran drummer Roger Taylor’s birthday (b. 1960). “Perfect Day” is a cover of the Lou Reed classic (1972); Roger Taylor was on an extended break from Duran Duran in the late 80’s/early to mid 90’s but briefly reconnected with Simon, Nick and John in 1994 while in Paris to record a couple of tracks for Thank You plus he appears in the video for “Perfect Day” (shot in 1995). “Perfect Day” went to #28 in the UK and Lou Reed has stated that Duran Duran’s version is “potentially the best rerecording of any of his songs.” The b-side is another Reed cover: Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale (alternative mix)” (VU’s from 1967). The difference in Nico vs Simon’s voice could not be more radical but both versions are fabulous.

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Arcadia “The Promise”

sfilzen — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:24:31 +0000

Arcadia “The Promise” 1986. Today is Simon LeBon’s birthday (b. 1958)! “The Promise” was the third single from the Duran side project Arcadia’s 1985 album So Red the Rose. It went to #37 in the UK – I don’t think it charted in the US (though I loved it, and the entire record which I bought pretty much on its release date, November 18th 1985). “The Promise” features guitar work from Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and uncredited, but obvious, backing vocals by Sting. From wiki: “Sometime during the band’s stay in Paris to record So Red the Rose, they went to see a Sting concert there, and decided it would be interesting to have him come over and sing on the album, mainly because they liked the combination of Sting’s and lead singer Simon Le Bon’s voices on the “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” single by Band Aid, and wanted to see what would result from putting them together again. Sting was very amicable about the whole idea, and it turned out to be one of the band’s favourite moments on the record.” The b-side to the single is the gothic instrumental “Rose Arcana.”

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Simon LeBon Interview 1982

sfilzen — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:14:09 +0000

Simon LeBon Interview 1982. Today, October 27th, is Simon LeBon’s birthday (b. 1958). This 7″ limited edition picture disc on Talkies (an unofficial UK record label based in the UK) was released in August of 1982 as part of 3 part series (I have 2 of the 3). It’s an 18 minute interview with Simon (I don’t know who the interviewer is) that touches on Simon’s origin story with the band (his girlfriend at the time was working at the Rum Runner club and told him about a band that was looking for a singer – the rest is, obviously, history). At the time of the interview Duran Duran had yet to have a #1 single and Simon sounded nonplussed by that, saying basically it gave the band a goal (which of course they met). Simon also chats about being categorized as a New Romantic band (and trashes the media a bit for pigeon holing them), the band’s songwriting process (democratic and egalitarian) and if traveling to Sri Lanka to film three videos for Rio was “justifiable” (yep, totally was). It sounds like this interview was from a radio show or similar; while there is no music on the disc, the interviewer does introduce several tracks including “Rio,” “Hungry Like the Wolf” and “The Chauffeur” during the course of interview, making it seem like the conversation was interrupted to play to song. I can’t find any visual or audio link online so here’s a different link, Simon and Nick on MTV from their Secon Annual New Year’s Eve Ball, 1982 in New York City.

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Duran Duran “Meet El Presidente”

sfilzen — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:52:21 +0000

Duran Duran “Meet El Presidente” 1987. Last week I fulfilled yet another big life wish, spinning a 3 hour set of Duran Duran (plus side projects) vinyl records at Wiggle Room. I had intended to spin this song but it didn’t make the cut as I started to run out of time. “Meet El Presidente” was the third, and final, single from the Nile Rodgers produced Notorious; it hit #24 in the UK but just went to #70 in the US. If I’m being honest, I don’t really even remember it from ’87 (though my daily listens had skewed heavily punk by that point). The single version is a different mix than the album’s with a more pronounced Latin groove (think Miami Sound Machine). And because I don’t remember hearing the single back in the day, the LP version is a bit more familiar. Both are smooth, funky and highly danceable. The b-side, “Vertigo (Do the Demolition),” has a more slow-burn funk with a big 80’s production sound that, apropos its title, has a bit of an industrial flare.

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David Bowie and Mick Jagger “Dancing in the Streets”

sfilzen — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:37:18 +0000

David Bowie and Mick Jagger “Dancing in the Streets” released 40 years ago today, August 27th, 1985, though it was played for the world during Live Aid on July 13th, 1985 (the two musicians had originally intended to perform it simultaneously in London and Philadelphia but the delay in sound would have made things awkward). Bowie and Jagger’s version, originally recorded by Martha and the Vandellas in 1964 when it went to #2 on the charts and then was covered about a zillion times, hit #7 in the US and went to #1 in the UK. I love their rendition and I absolutely adore the video – it is so very very 80’s and so very very silly – even though it’s considered one of the worst videos of the 80’s, if not all time by, like, everyone (except me). I find this info from Wiki hilarious so pasting here in its entirety:

The video was played twice during the Live Aid event: the first before Bowie’s set, where it was introduced via satellite by the comedian Chevy Chase, and the second time as a filler when the Who’s reunion set suffered sound problems. It has been described as “campy”,”cheesy” and “embarrassing”. Radio X’s Martin O’Gorman remarked: “It’s [Bowie and Jagger’s] playful irreverence that causes many people to cringe.” Readers of The Guardian rated it the worst music video of all time in 2014, while NME placed it at No. 12 in their list of the 50 worst music videos ever. In a 2011 episode of Family Guy, Peter Griffin refers to the video as “the gayest music video of all time”, after which it is played in its entirety. After its conclusion, Griffin states: “That happened and we all let it happen.” In the 2010s, a “silent” version of the video was uploaded to YouTube, featuring grunts and shuffles instead of the music. Bowie himself was a fan of the video, with guitarist Ben Monder saying: “He thought it was hilarious and would just have us watch the whole thing [during the Blackstar sessions].

Here are both the “real” and the “no music” versions of the video so you can decide for yourself. I think both are pure gold.

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De Lux/Hanni El Khatib “Rebel Yell + Power Struggle”

sfilzen — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:21:48 +0000

De Lux/Hanni El Khatib “Rebel Yell + Power Struggle” 2019. Innovative Leisure records, limited edition 7″ split single and according to Discogs/Bandcamp it was “commissioned by the US bourbon brand Rebel Yell for a free limited edition 2019 Record Store Day release.” De Lux, who I was up until now not at all familiar with, is a post-disco duo from L.A. Hanni El Khatib (also from L.A. and a fantastic rock guitarist) I am definitely familiar with (we have had a few of his releases for a long time now and saw him perform probably about 10 years ago or so). “Rebel Yell” is a cover of the classic Billy Idol song from 1984, synthesized to the nth and whispery vocals, making it almost unrecognizable but still really fun. “Power Struggle” is glossily polished techno-disco, bleep-bloop’d with a hypnotically ass-shaking funk. It’s very fun and helpfully spells out S-T-R-U-G-G-L-E in the chorus.

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GØGGS “She Got Harder”

sfilzen — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:28:16 +0000

GØGGS “She Got Harder” 2016. In the Red Records. Garage punk “supergroup” composed of Ty Segall, Chris Shaw (Ex-Cult) and Charles Moothart (Fuzz). Their debut 7″ single is fuzzy, fast and ass-shakey. Ty has had about a million side-projects over the years but according to the band’s Discog bio “This is not a side-project, it is a necessity. GØGGS is three heads, one spine, circling the drain of the wasteland known as mother earth….The three of us have been friends for years at this point, crashing at each others houses and riffling through each others record collections after a night of performing, partying, or both…Ty and I decided we were going to start a band together when Ex-Cult opened for his band on the Slaughterhouse tour in 2013. A couple years later when the plans were solidified, it only made sense that thrash master Charles Moothart should get in on the experience.” (Shaw)

The b-side is an Iggy Pop cover, “Billy is a Runaway.” It’s even fuzzier (with some truly signature Segall buzz) accented with saxophone (played by Zumi Oneiro) and an intentionally off-kilter rhythm section, making it a wonky cacophony of weirdness. It’s pretty great.

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Gob Psychic “(All Week) Rent Payer”

sfilzen — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:19:20 +0000

Gob Psychic “(All Week) Rent Payer” 2023. Slovenly Recordings, limited edition yellow vinyl. Danish garage punk, not their first release but looks like their first vinyl release, a 3-song EP 7-inch. Don’t let the swirly pastel cover art fool you, this is energetic and buzzy high octane rock-n-roll. The lead/title track “(All Week) Rent Payer” leads off with a decidedly 70’s UK punk/Damned riff and blasts into stilted and angular rhythms that back angry vocals. “Content Moderator” has a more 80’s US west coast punk flavor: darker, also angry. “Dead Intruder” has a bit of a wacky, new wave sound that leads it off but then it goes into balls-to-the-wall relentless garage punk sound with gasping vocals (literally, at one point the singer says “I can’t breathe”). I don’t know anything about Gob Psychic beyond their bio on Bandcamp (they are Danish and inspired by both Aussie and Midwestern punk – I think that might be a Devo reference based on the wacky new wave sounds I noted above); it looks like the did a small West European tour last fall but they haven’t released anything since 2023.

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