by Jim Algie | Feb 24, 2018 | Blog, Music
February 19, 2018, Bangkok – Riffing on music history, literature and his own experiences as a musician, Jim Algie’s new book, On the Night Joey Ramone Died: Tales of Rock and Punk from Bangkok, New York, Cambodia and Norway (Magic Bullet Press, 2018), takes readers...
by Jim Algie | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog, Music
In the aftermath of a black metal murder in the local music scene, Jim Algie looks back at the merger of Satanism and rock that ended up on a collision course in the Thai capital. Ever since rock ‘n’ roll was dubbed the “devil’s music” by some American puritan, and...
by Jim Algie | May 19, 2017 | Blog, Music
For a guy who banged out his riffs, odes and elegies on a typewriter instead of a musical instrument, Hunter S Thompson composed one of the most accurate descriptions of the music industry I’ve ever heard, calling it “a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic...
by Jim Algie | Apr 6, 2017 | Blog, Music
Many musicians have adopted guerilla poses and advocated armed insurrection – like The Clash and the MC5 – but none of them ever put down their guitars to take up a machine-gun like the Myanmar musician and rocking revolutionary, Mun Awng. In this profile that began...
by Jim Algie | Jul 21, 2016 | Music
Bangkok rock history has been a sounding board for songs, album covers and gigs by everyone from the Clash and the Pretenders, to the Pogues, Bjork, Rush and Michael Jackson. 1. The last Clash The cover of “Combat Rock,” The Clash’s biggest-selling album, was...
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