Adanowsky performs La Muerte de Amador at the Teatro Metropolitan in Mexico City – staged by his father Alejandro Jodorowsky – which included dwarfs, monsters, dancers, coffins, and one giant penis.

New music video by the Pharmacy for “Pines” off the “Dig yr grave EP” and the “Stoned and Alone” LP. Directed and edited by Brendhan Bowers. Cinematography by Adarsha Benjamin. Shot on 16mm and super8. The pharmacy jams out and then gets stoned at the river.”

It will be exactly 18 years in April since Kurt Cobain took his own life in the green house of his Seattle home in 1994. Last month he would have turned 45. Marking the occasion, two founding members of Cobain’s mostly semi-lucid widow Courtney Love’s band Hole will be releasing a book and a film surrounding the relationship with Kurt, the band, and the life style of drugs, and the consequences of rapid fame. Firstly, Eric Erlandson, guitarist for Hole, will will releasing a book, entitled Letters to Kurt, which is a collection of poems and free association reflecting on his suicide and its emotional ramifications. Secondly, Patty Schemel, who helped develop Hole’s sound and who lived with Kurt and Courtney during some of the more tumultuous times, is releasing a film about her life. Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death of Patty Schemel is the “portrait of the hell-and-back life of Patty Schemel” and tells the story of her terrible addiction to drugs and how it nearly destroyed her career and life. Schemel is “a true survivor of what we now know was the disaffected ‘slacker’ generation, Patty found herself, like her friend Kurt Cobain, embraced by the dark side. An unprecedented and unflinching inside look at one of the 90s most crucial and controversial groups.” Eric Erlandson’s Letters to Kurt will be released April 8th on Akashic Books. Hit So Hard will be premiering this year – first at Cinema Village in New York on April 13, with more dates to follow.

Brooklyn based Miniature Tigers will be releasing their second album on March 6 entitled Mia Pharaoh.  Listen to the track Female Doctor off their upcoming LP.

Miniature Tigers – Female Doctor (Algemix)

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Photograph by Don Hunstein

This one goes out to Johnny Cash who would have been 80 years old this weekend….

Directed by Sunset Television for Beirut’s track Vagabond from their 2011 album The Rip Tipe.

Chromatics release their music video for the second single, Into The Black – a Neil Young cover – off their upcoming album Kill For Love,a follow-up to their 2007 debut Night Drive.

Photo: Liza Mandelup

I can’t remember exactly where I first saw Saint Motel play, maybe The Viper Room in Los Angeles, but I certainly remember the show. How could I forget? It was electrifying. I found myself excitedly writing some form of this review in my head all the way back then. Every element of this band is like watching lightning – the lead guitarist (Aaron Sharpe) literally looked like he was convulsing as he played – and not in an embarrassing way, the drummer (Greg Erwin) slammed the drums like that monkey in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the bassist (Dak – great name) – the poster-boy of garage-nerd-pop – sewed each song together perfectly, and the singer (A/J Jackson) is the perfect front man – with a wide mouth that shouts intelligent, honey coated lyrics that pierce your heart all the way through your back and right back through again. Before five years ago, if you looked up Saint Motel in the yellow pages you might have found a cheap place to spend the night or take a hooker. The same might be true today, but if you google Saint Motel you’ll find a torrent of small articles, much like the one you’re reading now, celebrating the band with a laundry list of confusing genre classifications (garage-nerd-pop), but hailing the band nonetheless. With their soaring, operatic ballads of love and angst in the 21st century Saint Motel might just be the best band you’ve never heard of. That is of course unless you live Los Angeles. Saint Motel is arguably one of L.A.’s favorite bands. Its hard not to catch Saint Motel on the local indie radio there and its certainly hard not to miss one of their truly inspiring live shows. But fear not, Saint Motel is currently on the road and coming to a city near you to support the release of a new vinyl record with the singles At Least I Have Nothing and Puzzle Pieces. (interview with A/J Jackson, singer of Saint Motel, and the amazing music video for At Least I Have Nothing after the jump). [SEE MORE....]

Brendhan Bowers shooting a film in NYC

Artist and musician Brendhan Bowers has curated the eighth volume of Monday Mixtapes by Brendhan Bowers exclusively for Pas Un Autre. With tracks by The Kinks, Arthur Alexander, the Electric Prunes this amazing mix is for the dreamers. [download]