Hell's Belles

Vintage sounds, dusty grooves, and 21st-century freaks.

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As promised a couple of weeks back in my post about Mark joining St. Vincent onstage to cover one of his classic early Pop Group tunes, I have here a free MP3 procured from his website, www.markstewartmusic.com.  Said tune is a raging disco funk diatribe, Nothing Is Sacred, which is the AA of that super-limited Children of the Revolution 7″ that came and went on Black Friday, and it beats the snot out of the current crop of bedwetters bleating about lacklustre sex.

It comes backed with a rapid-fire cut-n-spliced video that includes an arresting image of a tittyshaking Obama amidst scenes of rioting and destruction, giving the juxtaposed classic film and cartoon footage a demonic edge.  Somehow I don’t think this video will be garnering much praise from the major US websites.

“Nothing Is Sacred” is the spawn of sessions for Mark Stewart’s new album (title as yet TBA), which is due in spring 2012.  The Quietus reports that it contains collaborations with a canon of mercurial luminaries who generally don’t do collaborations, including Kenneth Anger (!), Richard Hell, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Primal Scream, Gina Birch (The Raincoats), and young buck noiseniks Factory Floor.

Marva Whitney, along with Lyn Collins and Vicki Anderson, was one of the singers with the James Brown Revue.  She’s one hell of a belter in her own right, and released a string of stormin’ 45s, including this funkity-ass slice of funk in 1969.

MP3: Marva Whitney – Things Got To Get Better