Something Weird - Hey Folks! It's Intermission Time! - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Mighty Monarch of Exploitation Cinema! These audacious adults-only radio adverts and trailers showcase all original counter-culture compositions from Friedman's freaky frontal lobe! Includes a DVD!Always a carny at heart, Friedman gravitated towards the sleazy independent film world, where he started a new company and ushered in a decade of his greatest films. Always brimming with bodaciously bare beauties and copious carnality - which became his tawdry trademark. From 1964-1975, he wrote and produced roughies, historical costume dramas (based on literary classics), counter culture time capsules, wild wanton westerns, various soft-X sizzlers, an elaborate jungle epic and perhaps the worst sci-fi movie ever committed to celluloid. But what ties all of these films together is the ballyhoo. Friedman sure knew how to craft an auditory advertising campaign to got 'em in the theatres. He was the king of alliteration and catchy taglines and his coming attractions were among the best and most entertaining of their time. Many of the trailers and radio spots utilized all-original compositions and scores from Billy Allen - a composer/conductor Friedman enlisted to set his films apart from all the other smut peddlers.As Inchadults onlyInch films were getting more explicit in the '70s, Friedman longed for the good old days of sin and skin. He only dabbled in the XXX world for a short time before retiring. So, listen up and get ready to have your ears spanked hard!

Double Life, the fourth Night Moves album and first in six years, is a cozy and cool LP built largely from a string of very rough breaks that singer John Pelant and Night Moves have navigated in recent years. Pelant is the sort of songwriter who starts with the music-inspired of late by Glen Campbell and Bobby Caldwell, Cleaners from Venus and early '90s country, Panda Bear and (as ever) Gram Parsons-and then writes lyrics only after he's sat with the tune a spell. But this time, these songs are direct documents of Pelant's life as he searches for silver linings or at least valuable meanings during a moment when very little seemed golden. Double Life is about moving through, not moving on.

Noah Creshevsky - To Know & Not to Know [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/31/2007