Following last month’s death of Ace Frehley, a founding member and the lead guitarist for Kiss, it seemed like a reasonable time to present a poll pitting Gwar and Kiss – bands that are pretty much equally loathed and loved – against each other.
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Poll: Which Intergalactic Brutes Are the Best, Gwar or Kiss?
Posted in Polls with tags Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, GWAR, Kiss on 11/17/2025 by Kurt OrzeckRevising History: Wooden Wand On Guided By Voices, Black Flag, Rolling Stones, More
Posted in Features, Interviews, Revising History with tags Ace Frehley, Black Flag, Brownie McGhee, Cockney Rebel, Deniz Tek, Dr. Feelgood, Guided by Voices, James Toth, Jim Ford, Johnny Dowd, Kiss, Royal Trux, Slaughter Joe, Sonny Terry, the Cure, the Durutti Column, the Feelies, the Gris-Gris, the Roches, the Rolling Stones, the Vanishing Voice, Tom Verlaine, Tompall Glaser, Wooden Wand on 10/27/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Over the years, James Jackson Toth has quietly proven himself to be one of the more undervalued American songwriters out there. Calling to mind a broad array of characters from the canon of great music – Captain Beefheart, Willie Nelson, Sun Ra and more – the man better known as Wooden Wand has been making a case that, perhaps, eventually, he should stack right up there with those legends. For the most poetic edition yet in the Bad Penny’s “Revising History” series, Toth touched on the Rolling Stones’ “Coming Down Again,” Guided by Voices’ “Chicken Blows,” Black Flag’s “Three Nights” and other songs he wishes he had made. Continue reading
Cover Me: Mark Bacino’s Queens English
Posted in Cover Me, Features, Interviews with tags Ethel, Freedy Johnston, Harry Nilsson, Jeff Tweedy, Kiss, Mark Bacino, NRBQ, Paul McCartney, Randy Newman, Steve Earle, the Kinks, Wilco on 09/20/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
In the latest installment of “Cover Me,” power-pop prince Mark Bacino re-envisions his latest album, Queens English (DreamCrush/ Redeye), which dropped earlier this summer on Amazon and iTunes. In addition to granting the Bad Penny a downloadable MP3 (scroll to the bottom of the post), he wonders what the songs would sound like if they were performed by Steve Earle, Jeff Tweedy, even Archie & Edith Bunker – and seals it all with a Kiss. Continue reading
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