​False alarm, Northlanders. The psycho clown abducting teens at gunpoint Monday was just a 17-year-old kidnapping his friends with an air pistol (as Fox 4 points out). The teens staged the abductions throughout the Northland where folks aren't down with the clown and called the cops. Can't blame them. Clowns are scary. But this clown wasn't The Joker or Pennywise or the ghost of John Wayne Gacy (although he definitely had an appetite for young boys), it was just a camera-phone Scorsese.
It's rather fortuitous that Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO Records came out right around the same time as Our Noise: the Story of Merge Records. Both books relate the tale of a band and record label inexorably linked. In Merge's case, it was Superchunk, and with BYO, it's Youth Brigade.
However, while both books have a lot in common -- pictures, oral history, fliers, discographies, etc. -- Let Them Know ups the ante by providing what might be the definitive label histo
Y'know what's totally fucked up about this? It's a completely straight cover. No crazy riffing, no starting out slow and ramping it up to insanity speed like Pennywise -- nope, Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead and Dave Lombardo of Slayer do the Ben E. King standard 100% seriously, and rather reverently. The version was recorded for the the soundtrack to the new Flip Skateboards film, Extremely Sorry.
Then again, if you've heard the Head Cat album Lemmy did with Slim Jim Phantom and Danny B. Harvey,
