By 1969, psychedelics began to lose ground, succumbing to the onslaught of heavy rock and heavy drugs. Tim Leary, the main prophet and consumer of acid, is running for governor of California with Irish zeal…
Project Blue Book: The X-Files before the X-Files
No, it's not the moon... Not a reflection of a light bulb in a dark window... Sometimes it resembles a saucer from my grandmother's tea set, sometimes it resembles Comrade Fidel's cigar. This Is An…
Hair High (2004): School secrets in pastel colors
Night is a great time to rummage in the dump of consciousness. Last year's delirious delirium, images of a three-day binge, unspoken idiotic jokes - there is a use for everything, you just have to…
The Sparks Boys – Upside Down (2019): Rock-upside-down-roll
The night capital... Magomayev sings inaudibly in the ever-fading sky. Leviathans of socialist realism, golems of Zurab Rkatsiteli, temples risen from decay scratch the clouds. Tiny clubs, pubs and eateries bravely lean against the footsteps…
Messer Chups – Don’t Say Cheese (2020): from…
In those alien seas where the rays of heaven cannot penetrate the shroud of sargasso, monsters live in the obsidian-black depths. From the muddy Neva River through the strong "Baltic" they go to these waters…
Billy Don Burns – The Country Blues (2020):…
Bad things happen at night west of the Rio Grande. Descendants of the Aztecs are trudging across the sands of Sonora to Arizona, happy yuppies are returning from their Mexican holidays with "powdered" noses, and…
Miller’s Crossing (1990): It’s not in the hat
The night calls and repels, cradles and scares. How many shades of darkness will the mortal eye discern? How much darkness will his heart contain? In the very heart of this darkness live ugly greedy…
Colter Wall – Songs Of The Plains (2018):…
There are a lot of holes in the black tent of the old woman of the Night. Whose greedy little eyes are watching through these gaps for a homeless flock of wagons huddled around a…
Nick Waterhouse (2019): The Canzones of the Caribbean…
It's just cold-and sometimes such cold nights happen... Sleet rushes to warm up, hiding under the collar, but more often, with a cry of "the Russians are coming!", it dies on the sidewalk. The dim…
Hey Good Lookin’ (1982) – if only Salvador…
The full moon is a time of strange, cozy nightmares, sometimes taking on cinematic forms. Animation is the freest and craziest of these forms. I would call Ralph Bakshi one of the craziest and most…
Unrealizable Grease Dream, rockabilly from the USSR (1987-1992)
The cold wind brings back memories, ruffles the fur on the back of his neck. He whispers terrible spells: glasnost-perestroyka. It's 1987 outside the Delorean window, Teddy Bear is just preparing a sledgehammer for the…
Moscow Beatballs – Jazz Deformation: some information about…
Dark is the best time for dangerous dancing, Moon Dogs! This is what a journalist from a black-and-white film tells you, stubble, gallons of coffee and smoke add weight to his words. Artie Shaw's "Nightmare"…
Mondo Harp: Harp’s Adventures in the Bermuda Triangle
The warm Darkness outside the window gently reminds of baths with virgin blood, dried toads and other pleasant things... Today we have Messer Chups with us, (in the past) people with refined taste and... certain…
Red Hot (1993): Youth, Love, Rock and Roll,…
Good midnight, Moon Dogs! It's time to howl at the stars and about the cinema! Since the Cold War, Hollywood movie companies have been pelting their viewers with images of "evil Russians" like monkeys with…
Zippers – Would You Love Me (2019), rockabilly…
Sultry blizzard night, Moon Dogs! Prepare the undercoat, today we will go to the Arctic. Norilsk... A city besieged by the stupid walkers of General Zugunder... The strings of the balalaika snap in the cold,…
Ghost Radio – No Time For Fun (2019),…
Good midnight, Moon Dogs! Somewhere south of my domain, but north of the Rio Grande, Chelyabinsk, the city of revived pipes, lurks. This is where the Ghost Radio, Ghost Radio, a rockabilly band unique to…