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The film "The Thing Called Love" (1993) by Peter Bogdanovich has a difficult fate. Due to the fact that The Thing Called Love is about country music, the film was released only in the Southern…
"Blame the Stones for everything," Kris Kristofferson sarcastically sings, opening his first album with a mocking march (Part I about Chris). He almost quotes The Rolling Stones, mentioning, among other vices of society, the bored…
Beware of the Blob, It creeps and leaps, And glides, and slides Across the floor Right through the door And all around the wall A splotch, a blotch. Be careful of the Blob! Unfortunately, the…
There is an eternal holiday in the city of Gotham. People here make up regularly and with imagination, and they come up with witty costumes for themselves. Because this holiday is Halloween. It would be…
Switzerland is a compact, cozy and relatively neutral country. Multilingual Helvetians leisurely mold their leaky cheese and rivet their precise watches. And in the case of a spiritual impulse, they climb to the top and…
"I went to jail that night. And I dreamed of all the wines and all the single girls of this best of all possible worlds," sings Kris Kristofferson on his debut album, intertwining Voltaire's mockery…
The movie The Bikeriders (2023 or 2024?) are sketches from the life of Bikeriders with soundtrack of a random set of music of the 60s. Director Jeff Nichols, he is also an ideologist and a…
A fascinating story that you won't find in Baz Luhrmann's biopic. On March 24, 1958, Elvis Aaron Presley, a global celebrity and rock'n'roll star, joined the US Army. Stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, Presley completed…
Highway to Hell (Highway To Hell or Greetings from the Highway To Hell, 1991) is an adventure movie with elements of horror and comedy from director Eita de Jong. Despite some trash and the status…
A post-apocalyptic desert with endless gangs of psychopaths in crazy aggressive cars. The roar of engines, sand and rust on the remains of the old world. The lonely and absurdly cool warrior of these dead…
Flying cars are a universal symbol of the future for everyone who was born at the end of the twentieth century. In a beautiful place, wheels have long been out of use! Antigravity, a kind-hearted…
To the 95th anniversary of the great magician of the cinema screen. Alejandro Jodorowsky, who was born on February 17, 1929 in the Chilean town of Tocopilla, is rightfully called the magician of the cinema…
Il grande silenzio (1968) - the title of this film is translated both as “The Silent One” and as “The Great Silence” (The Great Silence) and both variants have their own meaning. Agreeing to participate…
Just imagine: You're the last survivor of the party. We just celebrated the New Year, but all your friends are already sleeping in salads. In order not to fade out of boredom, you switch the…
My Name Is Nobody. This picture by Tonino Valeria, which was released on the big screen in the pre-Christmas days of 1973, can be safely called an excellent postscript to the films of the great…
Heaven's Burning (Heaven's Burning, 1997) is a little-known Australian film that attracted me with the appearance of the main character - a young Russell Crowe wears whiskers and looks like a greaser. The film directed…
His name is Death or the Pale Rider (1985). This film will prove to those who do not like westerns at all that they are wrong. It should be watched by all fans of dramatic…
I want to start this article with a small remark that may save you a couple of minutes: The Car of 2019 is absolutely an average movie in all respects. And I'm not sure if…
This is not New Orleans, playing the saxophone in the St. Petersburg courtyard requires more courage than fiddling in the courtyard of Odessa. The first five years are especially difficult, until you manage to blow…
Seventy years have passed since the change of epochs and the beginning of the decline of the Soviet Russian Empire. An absurd little man in an embroidered shirt rhythmically taps his shoe on the podium,…
The Dutch ousted the Algonquins in order to lose themselves in the tsunami of Catholics and Jews. Take a look at the map: The Bronx is the testicles of Manhattan, a piece of land bounded…
This article just needs to be here. If a magazine dedicated to authentic rock and roll as a way of life has a section about video games, then a game where the fifties never ended…
Linguist and novelist Anthony Burgess wrote his knizhonka "Clockwork Orange" in 1962, after visiting Leningrad. Andy Warhol, famous for his coloring books, first seized on the violent pseudo-dystopia, but Stanley Kubrick turned the story into…
There is a world of people and there is a world of demons. Demons feed on people's fears and are often their offspring. In the human world, a special department has been created to combat…
The future is not what it used to be. Spaceships do not plow the vastness of the universe, opening a new frontier of humanity. There are no apple trees blooming on Mars, and no one…
Old people don't belong here. This is a place for mature gentlemen who know their business. Canada is a province torn between two hegemons: the British Crown has formal power over it, and the United…
The craft of a private investigator disposes to adventures: here and the search for pets, and the observation of spouses on the slippery path of adultery, and the development of a film with evidence of…
In the house on the corner of Deribasovskaya-Richelevskaya, grandmother's ghost is still clacking with an ectoplasmic jaw. If the invaders do not come, their weighty relics will beat the wolves of the Circumpolar region. Having…
What happened to Elvis after 1977 is described in the films "People in Black" and Bubba Ho-Tep, which is why it is not an example of a more talented story than about his life before…
All of Chris Isaac's music is a great addition to our summer days, but in his new work he definitely turns to winter. Everybody Knows It's Christmas is the second of Isaac's Christmas albums, released…
It just so happens that all my rockabilly knowledge has never been to the south of Europe. Scandinavia, Germany, the east of Europe, especially Russia and Ukraine – there are many of my favorites. As…
The Milky Way galaxy is rich in rock'n'roll for every taste. People with fine taste, young men with broken hearts, and director David Lynch like Roy Orbison. Perverts, psychopaths and Wednesday Addams experience sweet convulsions…
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) is one of the craziest and wackiest movies I've ever seen. This film adaptation of Rex Weiner's comics 1979-1980 is an eclectic thrash and black comedy with music and…
Most of us would like to have our favorite bar, where the bartender, your best friend for the evening, will prepare you "the cocktail" that will make you "feel better." And for the pianist to…
Writing to the Game Section on Rock This Town is not the easiest thing to do. It is quite difficult to find something thematically suitable, and at the same time not worn to the holes…
I downloaded the movie Velvet Goldmine (Velvet Gold Mine or Velvet Mines) back in 2015 due to the presence of T.Rex songs, all this time it was lying on my old hard drive and only…
Albuquerque 1965. The movie Dead Beat first begins as a youth comedy, and then it becomes clear that this is a cruel drama. It's as if director Adam Dubov is intimately familiar with detectives investigating…
And there will be a night when the rubber scarecrows of cheap horror movies will come to life and the ketchup will turn to blood. And the screenwriters, brilliant in their stupidity, will crawl out…
Dear friends. This year has been difficult. Cough-cough. The movie won't be the best either. At least, according to film critics, who gave him only 28 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience delivered almost twice…
It's a quiet Nevada night. A rare coyote will run to the middle of the Mojave. Only in the distance there are golden flashes, and then it's not lightning, then the city of Las Vegas…
Sometimes you come across something so out of the ordinary that you literally boil with excitement, surprise and admiration at the same time. Something like a Lamborghini or a Ferrari from the 80s or 90s…
For quite some time now, I've been wanting to introduce all those who visit our website to collections called Rockabilly Nationals. And it seems that there won't be a better moment than now - right…
Unfortunately, cars like the Predicta or Charlie Ryan's Lincoln are too famous. There is a lot of information about them, and although their rich history and life path are extremely interesting, they are sometimes described…
In addition to the standard Elvis renditions, the Danzig Sings Elvis album is notable for its cover versions of selected songs from the King's repertoire, unknown to a wide range of listeners. It is possible…
There are ghosts with a motor, and ghosts with affectionate names settle in the old radio. Verunchik walks along the streets, squeezed by gloomy Chelyabinsk high-rise buildings, and even the winds part before her. The…
Since certain events of the 90s of the last century left ordinary citizens of our country virtually without their own cultural works, it is quite easy to understand the phenomenon that, in fact, every child…
Jailbird Tommy Brown seduced 16-year-old backing vocalist Mary Ann 3 years ago and pretended that he was walking the path of the righteous. In fact, he has long wanted to master family money and stop…
Despite the fact that I am familiar with many movie hits of the 80s, the film Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) undeservedly passed me by. Peggy Sue remains one of such underestimated pictures, the popularity…
There is no surfing on Lake Shartash. Only stupid peasants dip their ill-fated larvae into the ice hole. There is surfing off the coast of California. There, boys who do not know sheepskin coats dip…
Covering the work of friends is a hell of a complicated business. It is necessary to maintain a balance between outright flattery and undisguised malice. I'll try to be objective, despite my infernal sense of…
Imagine this picture: you enter a car dealership, and there is a hot rod right in the middle of a huge hall. Brand new and - no matter how amazing it may sound - branded,…
Singer, violinist, songwriter, Texas native and Grammy Award winner Amanda Shires presented her first Christmas album to the public in November 2021. The record is interesting primarily for its original material, and the fact that…
The Internet has long grown into a huge, dimensionless monster, and searching for any information is becoming like trying to find a needle in a haystack. That's why, despite all my efforts, interesting things sometimes…
At the end of November 2021, the German label KEiL Records, with which we have already become friends this fall, released a Christmas mini-album "Stephan Griebel sings Christmas Songs" with a circulation of 333 copies.…
Brian Setzer's first solo album in the last seven years! As in the case of the album by another stray cat, Lee Rocker, the recording of the disc occurred not least due to the widespread…
Dave Alvin, born on 11/11/1955, recorded his eleventh solo album with the characteristic name Eleven Eleven in 2011. In numerology, the prime number 11 is considered very powerful, but we will leave such interpretations to…
There is a video recording of the song Strange Fruit, made in 1959. There, Billie Holiday, standing at the threshold of Death, as if Her faithful messenger, plunges the receptive viewer/listener into the inky darkness…
Legendary Canadian bard Leonard Cohen passed away exactly 5 years ago, on November 7, 2016, at the age of 82. In 1975, the famous poet presented his own cocktail recipe called Red Needle. If you…
I never get tired of repeating that Stephen King is a terribly overrated writer. But, by some irony of fate, it is King who is perhaps the most famous creator, in whose works from time…
Have you tried hammering a square peg into a round hole? Especially when it's out of size. When the hat is not on Senka, the uniform is not on the rank. Square Peg Round Hole…
The elite of society is most successful at pretending to be the elite of society. While husbands with dignified gestures drop cigar ash on the weak of this world, wives are busy with other important…
The icon of the 80s neo-rockabilly, Dave Phillips, formerly of the Blue Cats, who named his rockabilly band after the 1958 film starring Gene Vincent, is returning. Famous for his collaboration with Mark Harman from…
Ireland is an island green with the magic of the Hill People, full of the manuscripts of great writers. The island of the first slaves of the British Empire, the explosions in Ulster and Catholic…
I first noticed Sam Elliott in The Big Lebowski, where his epic character The Stranger appears to Jeff Bridges' Dude as if in a narcotic half-reality. That gray-haired guy with a huge mustache and a…
Ksenia Antropova is a model with red hair. Born in Kazakhstan, birthday is February 27, 1997. Model parameters are 80-61-92, height 164 cm, weight 49 kg. At the moment, she has no contracts with modeling…
The leaden waters of the Baltic Sea are washed ashore by sprats in cans, the Peipsi tribes by ferries. The Peipsi tribes embark on ruinous raids on the "glass houses" and pubs of the nearest…
This story is as old as a turtle in a New York sewer: in the sixties, walking with long hair in Texas meant learning a cartoon ostrich run from local coyotes. Contrary to the opinion…
Who would have thought that the retirement of the Cheyenne leader could turn into a headache comparable to saving Private Ryan. The Western Hostiles (Hostiles, 2017) will try to tell us how it turned out…
Henry Blythe Halicki was an unusual man. He had a good business, he had enough money for dozens of cars and at least for all the equipment that was required for the filming of the…
Paulina Lea Rose is an American model from Miami, and Jessica Martin is from there. Born in Munich, date of birth March 16, 1996 (Pisces). Height 180 cm, model parameters 81-61-86, dark hair, brown eyes.…
Charlie Crockett. This musician deserved an article on our website last year when he released his album Welcome To Hard Times, recorded before the pandemic, but unlike Lee Rocker's post-pandemic work, Charlie's music is much…
In the 1930s, the grass was greener and the air cleaner, for objective reasons. On both sides of the Pacific Ocean, the USSR and the USA built, in their own way, colossal powers. Prohibition and…
The action of the movie Cry-Baby (Cry Baby, 1990) takes place in Baltimore, Maryland. The year is 1954. There are decent Clean boys-girls studying at the local high school (The Squares), but the drop of…
Stuart Stern, screenwriter of Rebel Without a Cause: "This is the story of a generation that became adults overnight." The action of the film covers 24 hours in the lives of three teenagers: Jim, Judy…
Hannie Caulder Hannie Caulder (1971) is a British western starring Raquel Welch with quotes from spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone, it can also be attributed to exploitation films. And of course this is the story…
Model and actress Sadie Newman is a very beautiful thin girl with delicate features. Date of birth: December 11, 1993 (Sagittarius), Devon, United Kingdom. Dark hair, green eyes, height 178 cm. Model parameters 86-63-89. Her…
Sometimes they come back. A little Corsican sets sail from Elba to bring his Old Guard to ruin. The Ouroboros, imagining himself to be a puppy, grabs his own tail with his teeth. Rotted corpses…
A cozy Friday afternoon movie of the kind that was often shown in Russia in the late 90s. Innocent pranks of a provincial American city. Cars with a needle, cover girls. Creating relationships and figuring…
In 1968, the novel "Conagher" was published from the pen of the recognized writer of westerns Louis Lamour, and in 1991 Reynaldo Villalobos made a film of the same name for American television based on…
A working-class town in south Wales is a great place to have a decaliter in the pub after a hard day, another local beer parody for the return of King Arthur. A place where Kruner's…
How does mockumentary differ from documentary? Probably because in the first case it is somehow fiction. John Bronco is a man and a steamboat. And a reader, and a reaper, and a doodler. A national…
The children of Perestroika learned the horror of impending capitalism thanks to pay-cable television, which broadcast cartoons about an echid mouse, an anarcho-syndicalist rabbit gnawing carrots and a tired basset hound. Those who had done…
"A bootleg full of surprises" is what you can call this boot-shaped island state in Oceania, although some prefer the traditional New Zealand. Maori dance brutally here, Kiwis sneak mercilessly at the worm in the…
A beautiful girl whose last name doesn't sound very euphonious in Russian: this is Myla Dalbesio, an American model. Someone writes "Mila" instead of "Mail", but this is the wrong option. Mila was born on…
The Birth of The Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers (1980). Dan Aykroyd (Elwood) has long been fond of the blues. He sang and played the harmonica. It is difficult to understand from the appearance whether a…
The heroine of this article was casually mentioned by me in the material about the most significant of all Darryl Starbird's cars, the Predicta. In the process of writing that article, I found out that…
The old profurset, which was drunk back in the days of Prohibition, contains a motel where moths with cameras flew through the left wing. Sensation: a special copy will soon arrive at a fashionable hotel…
It's not easy to find a good witch. In the old days, even the coals did not have time to cool down, as the venerable crowd dragged a fresh charmer, suspected of eating toad broth…
Patsy and Loretta (2019) is a biopic about the friendship of two women, country singers Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. The film was shot for the Lifetime TV channel by director Callie Khouri, who at…
Model and actress Sarah Stevens (Sarah Elizabeth Stephens, sometimes her last name is written as Stephens). Date of birth: June 7, 1990. Height 178 cm. The model parameters are 86/64/91. The eyes are brown. She…
The Russians dropped a bomb on the United States in 1957, Elvis became not only the king of rock and roll, but also the real autocrat of the only surviving city - the Lost Vegas.…
It is generally accepted that hot rods ruled the streets of the United States until the advent of muscle cars, and somehow no one thinks about the fact that muscular cars also quite often drove…
Sardonically bright sun, sarcastically Pinkfloyd's "Mopeu" - the scenery of an ancient tragedy, where the pagan rascality of the rich and hangers-on in a Californian villa turns into a nightmarish farce: Gordon, the manager and…
The latest release of 2021 is Harpabilly Harp'n'roll! Our compatriot Maxim Evseev is hiding under the pseudonym Rolling Camel. Maxim has been playing the harmonica for 10 years and focuses on blues musicians such as…
Cadillac Records (Cadillac Records, 2008) is a movie that came out when I was starting to get interested in the blues. He became my first blues guide: Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf,…
Lee Rocker's new album Gather Round was released on January 22, 2021. The name seems to be taken from the first line of the famous "protest song" of the main American minstrel. But the album…