One- or Two-Word Titles From Archie Comics Digest #2 (October 1973)
Relief
Hip Quips
The Victim
Light Work
Draw Flaw
The Needle
Spy Spoof
Street Seen
Switcheroo
Spellbound
Couch Coach
Just Desert
Hand-Daft
Return Engagement
Stumble Bum
Cute Suit
Fashion Show
Sand Crab
Cool Skool
and Price Wise
Of the thre-or-more-word titles, best of the lot has to be “Little Red Archiekins.”
The club guy wants to join our club.
Moon King, a Toronto two-piece, foreshadow the release of their new album Secret Life (on Last Gang Records) with the dreamy yet driven “Roswell.” The long, spacious, scene-setting intro reminds me a lot of the old New Wave hit “Airport” by The Motors. When the vocals arrive, they’re fuzzy and ethereal. You can hear the track at Stereogum
http://www.stereogum.com/1728549/moon-king-roswell-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
Magic number: 89289
Magic word: hogwash
Bought an olive hat
at a hat shop
that’s part of a national chain.
The salesman rolled it
—the very hat I was buying—
to show me it was
“crushable.”
“Uh, don’t do that,”
I murmured.
“Don’t crush my hat.”
Flip of the Pencil Holders has discovered a lost chord. It takes four fingers from two different hands to play. He has to strum it with his nose. It’s one of just three chords in his new song “Perambulator,” and it’s by far the best.
“They stole my song,” Flip says of, well, everybody. He claims that just about everybody with a guitar or keyboard has purloined one of his original tunes somehow. The counterargument usually goes like this: “They’re not that original.” So Flip set out to create a number that was all his, contorting his hands into knots as only he could. (He’s double-jointed.)
When Flip debuted “Perambulator” at the Bullfinch on Thursday, someone near the stage had the temerity to mutter “I wish I could do that.”
“Well, you CAN’T!,” Flip flipped out.
Tonight: Beulah & Buford at the Bullfinch. No, guess who really… Fastedge at Hamilton’s; cars & girls, cars & girls… Seven a cappella vocal groups at D’ollaires, some sort of college competition to be filmed for television…
The new, ninth issue of Jughead and Archie Comics Double Digest (not to be confused with the old Jughead With Archie digest which began in 1974) brings back a classic touch of Archie sexism that the series has missed for far too long. It’s the premise that Jughead hates girls. The lead story in the digest, “Mission Most Improbable,” not only uses this as a jumping-off point, it adds to the gender barriers by having otherworldly male imps firing love-arrows at the misogynist Jug, then declaring “We didn’t even know there was such a thing as a female Cupid.” Technically, of course, Cupid isn’t a thing, it’s the name of a specific god. But never mind. Good old woman-hating Jughead is back.
The club guy won’t stop calling.
Painted Zero’s “Jaime” is a four-chord garage-rock run through the modern filter of contemporary Brooklyn indie rock. It sounds modern-quirky, with effects and crowd noises and layered guitar noises and the bourgeois-bratty vocals of Katie Lau, but it never loses that diehard ingratiating garage beat. Precious yet provocative. “Jaime” has been out for six months now as part of Painted Zero’s Svalbard EP, on the Black Bell label.
Magic number: 29564
Magic word: hat