Retro 1977 Kiss “Love Gun” action figures (both 8″ and 12″ inch) are available now via Figures Toy Company.
Back in the 1989, I broke up with my slacker, metalhead boyfriend, and moved out of our little love den on the first floor of his parents house (classy, I know). I packed everything I cared about into one suitcase, and never looked back. My honest and only regret about my rebel-esque emancipation, was not taking the time to find my original KISS action figures (my Gene still had his plastic headband). To this day I’m still pissed at myself for that, as I’m sure he sold my sweet childhood memories for a bunch of shitty pot. Moving on.
Well the good news is my pathetic sad story will finally have a happy ending as Figures Toy Company just released replicas of KISS’s original 70′s action figures, based on the “Love Gun” album cover. The figures will come in both 8″ and 12″ sizes, and each individual 12-inch figure comes with 1 of 4 retro mini KISS concert T-shirts. The “Love Gun” action figures will be followed by “Sonic Boom”, “Dressed To Kill” and the first KISS album figure series.
The full press release and more photos can be viewed at, Figures Toy Company.
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Halloween Jack. A hand-painted doll by Australian artist Tanja Stark. $379. Limited edition of 50.
The talented Tanja Stark got the Internet humming last year with her David Bowie nesting doll set. Continuing on with her very metal Bowie doll theme, Stark has created six different Bowies, each re-creating epic moments in Bowie’s ever transforming appearance. Like Stark’s “Glam Rock Bowie” that comes hand-painted with Bowie’s one-legged bodysuit that he wore at Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973, and blue feather boa.
More from the ever sublime Stark via Suburban Gothic.
The Scorpions, Tainted Love. Yes, that Tainted Love.
You know, I have to give this one to The Scorpions. Spitting out a cover of Tainted Love (originally recorded in 1965 by Gloria Jones, then popularized in 1981 by Soft Cell), took huge balls. But pulling it off so it didn’t make my ears want to cry, or make my mouth launch into a million unstoppable “FOR WHY’S???”, took chops.
As you already know, The Scorpions pulled the plug on on their 47 year long career in 2011, announcing that their 2012 tour would be their last. The bands final recording, Comeblack, is available for streaming now. It’s a collection of classic Scorpion re-recordings like “The Zoo“, and a personal favorite of yours truly, “Blackout“. The record also contains six surprising covers, including today’s Daily Earwig, “Tainted Love.” Running a very close second to today’s DE is the Scorpions cover of T Rex’s “Children of the Revolution.” I can’t speak for Marc Bolan, but I approve the Schenker spin The Scorpions put on it. Full track listing for Comeblack is below:
The Scorpions, Comeblack.
Re-recordings
01. Rhythm Of Love
02. No One Like You
03. The Zoo
04. Rock You Like A Hurricane
05. Blackout
06. Still Loving You
07. Wind Of Change
Covers
08. Tainted Love (GLORIA JONES)
09. Children Of The Revolution (T. REX)
10. Across The Universe (THE BEATLES)
11. Tin Soldier (SMALL FACES)
12. All Day And All Of The Night (THE KINKS)
13. Ruby Tuesday (THE ROLLING STONES)
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Iggy Pop can now add Record Store Day Ambassador to his impressive resume.
And, in true Iggy style, the still totally punk Pop had this to say about the importance of indie record stores, Record Store Day, and his role as RSD Ambassador for 2012:
A person should have a personality. You won’t get one dicking around on a computer. It helps to go somewhere where there are other persons. Persons who are interested in something you are. That’s how a record store or any shop that’s got some life to it should work. It’s not about selling shit. I got my name, my musical education and my personality all from working at a record store during my tender years. Small indie shops have always been a mix of theater and laboratory.
In the 50′s and 60′s the teen kids used to gather after school at these places to listen free to the latest singles and see if they liked the beat. You could buy the disc you liked for 79 cents and if you were lucky meet a chick. Clerks in these places became managers, (like Brian Epstein), label heads, (Jack Holzman) and Faces on album covers (like me). Personally I feel best in a store that, while staying small and socially relaxed, still keeps a complete variety of music types and non musical recordings on offer. I’m aware though that a lot of great places are genre-specific, like dance hall shops in Jamaica or Compas here in Little Haiti. In Europe and on the West coast the same goes on for Punk and Goth. All of this is cool and has a much bigger future than most people realize today. When the record and record store businesses began to die at the turn of the new century, they deserved it because they got too big too boring and too plastic.
As Record Store Day Ambassador for 2012 I feel like a representative from some exotic jungle full of life and death and sex and anger, called upon to wear a leopard skin and translate joy to the world of the dead. –IGGY POP
So is the word of Iggy, Afuckingmen.
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ARTORIA 1920′s Painting. Acrylic on canvas by Titine K-Leu.
More stunning paintings from French based artist Titine K-Leu, can be found on her Facebook page.
Posted in Real Art, Tattoo You, Very Metal
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Thin Lizzy by Andrew Hillhouse. For Jeff “Helltrack” Crazy.
I just stumbled across this very metal illustration by artist, Andrew Hillhouse. His artwork is featured on a website dedicated to the movie Braveheart (don’t ask). I don’t know much else about Hillhouse, but I do know one thing. I love Thin Lizzy.
In other very metal Thin Lizzy news, a box set full of recordings from cassette tapes that belongs to Lizzy vocalist, Phil Lynott, will be released. Dubbed “the lost Lizzy tapes”, the cassettes are said to contain 700 hundred unreleased songs.
Posted in Illustration, Real Art, Very Metal
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Davila 666 Puerto Rican flag 7′. For LP.
Only 100 of these bad boys were pressed, and subsequently (and to my very metal chagrin), sold out on pre-order immediately. You can still get the black vinyl, (a pressing of 500), and I promise it’ll sound excelente. Bonus? A download of an online exclusive track called Dame Una Razon, comes with all orders.
Full track listing for “Pa Que Vives”, which will get it’s official release on February 7th, is below:
Side A:
Pa Que Vives
Side B:
Sera Sera
Online only bonus track: Dame Una Razon.
Nickelback and Kiss. Together forever. When KISS said, “God Gave Rock and Roll to you”, I’m sure they didn’t mean this.
Via: Dangerous Minds.
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You can listen to DJ Cherrybomb occasionally, when she's conscious.
