Friday 4 May 2012

Courtney Love Loses Rights to Kurt’s Image

Found Underground

This is every kid’s dream. Imagine traveling through a local forest and coming across an abandoned military pillbox with an open hatch leading to a massive bunker rife for exploration. You and your buddies drop inside the hatch and discover that this bunker is enormous and build into parts of an abandoned quarry complex as you end up descending a five-story concrete staircase into the underground lair. Now for the best part. Not only are you having a blast pretending to be Indiana Jones exploring a once-secret military bunker, you come across abandoned military equipment! You first come across a rusting pair of German 77-mm cannons from World War I. It gets even better, as you move further throughout the bunker you come across relatively new French military gear that’s in great shape considering that it’s been sitting underground for years...

Keep Those Dreams Burning Forever: Neneh Cherry Interviewed

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(Thanx Eye Tea!)

Turner, Bacon, Freud, Constable? No, Britain is Banksy country

Bill Laswell's Transmutations - Live Frankfurt Jazzfestival (1997)

Bill Laswell - bass
Derek Bailey - guitar
DJ Disk - turntablism
Jack DeJohnette - drums

Terry Farley live at East Village Shoreditch April 2012

Girlz With Gunz #166

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Earl Sweatshirt Is Back From the Wilderness

After Exile, Career Reset

Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable (Ronald Nameth 1967)

Bonus:

The Velvet Underground at the NY Society for Clinical Psychiatry (Jan. 13 1966)

Should have been No. 1

Bob Quine 1942 - 2004

Ivan Julian on Quine

IRT: Re: the song "You Is Dead", one of the great highlights of The Naked Flame and your tribute to longtime friend and bandmate Robert Quine...where were you when you first heard about Robert Quine's passing?
Ivan: Richard [Hell] called me at home. I sat down and played the piano as I do when I get this kind of news. One never gets used to it.
IRT: Did you stay in touch with Quine through the years? Did you guys ever get together to jam or record?
Ivan: Bob and I were close until the very end. He told me he was going to do this (off himself), because of the pain he was feeling over the loss of his wife. My response was, "Please don't Bob!" He was never one who could tolerate much discomfort and this was all too much for him. Richard and I even discussed ways to help him, as did his other friends but his friends couldn't be there all the time. For anyone who's been through something like this; it's hard to judge someone's actions when they hurt so much. However, you do feel a small tinge of anger because it is ultimately a selfish act. You wanna say, "Hey man, we have to deal with all this shit, too. Why can't you?" And now, "You is Dead". Neither of us were the jamming type. We would get together and trade riffs, listen to records or check out new/old effects pedals and see what kind of sick sounds we could get out of them. It was always major fun!
IRT: What is your favorite memory of Robert Quine?
Ivan: We knew each other for such a long time so there were many but I have to say one sticks out... In Derby, England on the Clash tour, when he slowly took his guitar off and full throttle smashed this guy upside the head that was gobbing on him. Completely out of character and completely Brilliant! There were also the times when together we would go out to the Mudd Club or Danceteria and they wouldn't want to let him in because they thought he was a cop. The person at the door would say to Bob, "You look like his truant officer." Oh, if they only knew...

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MORE & MORE

SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

1 Lee Ranaldo & Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
2 Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine)
3 John Fahey
4 Kurt Cobain
5 J Mascis
6 Prince
7 Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd (Television)
8 Johnny Ramone
9 Eddie Hazel (Funkadelic)
10 Jam Master Jay (Run-DMC)
11 Ron Asheton (The Stooges)
12 Andy Gill (Gang of Four)
13 The Edge
14 Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman (Slayer)
15 Greg Ginn (Black Flag)
16 Frank Zappa
17 Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison
18 Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath)
19 d. boon (Minutemen)
20 Neil Young
21 Sonny Sharrock
22 Jimmy Nolen (James Brown)
23 Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins/This Mortal Coil)
24 Steve Albini (Big Black/Shellac)
25 Robert Fripp (King Crimson)

Read the complete entries HERE

No Hendrix, Clapton, Beck or Page anymore?
btw, thumbs up for including # 9 & 21!

If you live in a safe seat voting counts for nothing

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From A to...

Will there be a Mike Absalom revival?

Fallout of Bin Laden Raid: Aid Groups in Pakistan Are Suspect

How Chemicals Affect Us

Citizenship

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Thursday 3 May 2012

Mitch Winehouse: If you want to stop taking heroin, there’s very little help available

♪♫ Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - Billowing Sea/Little Deaths

Bonus:

Frank Turner & Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - Fields of June

Looking forward to the gig this Sunday up at Wesley Anne. Emily will be launching her album here in Australia with a gig down at Pure Pop in St. Kilda on Saturday.