Thursday 4 December 2014

Bez: we need housing not 'sugar-coated promises'

Chrissie Hynde's advice to chick rockers or 'how I did it'

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Lucrecia Dalt - Esotro (William Basinski Remix)

The lonesome death of Eric Garner

Jeff Bridges narrates Bob Dylan's road to Big Pink and 'Basement Tapes'




NYPD cop who choked Eric Garner wasn’t indicted-but man who recorded the incident was

Nick Lowe Embraces the Christmas Spirit

Wednesday 3 December 2014

Masosadism

The Making of 'Dogs In Space'



Dogs In Space

Ecco Homo - Motorcycle Baby/New York New York (1988/90)



Troy Davis alongside some familiar names from Max Q (Bill McDonald/Michael Sheridan/Gus Till/Ollie Olsen and Michael Hutchence) The Edge and Bono appeared on NY NY which was also mixed by Todd Terry. Sherine from the very wonderful Big Pig also appears
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Melle Mel - Tackhead VS Material Mix


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The SlumGods of Mumbai: ‘hip-hop has brought us to the world’

Led by the quiet wisdom of Akash Dhangar, the SlumGods want to use hip-hop to transform the global image of their infamous Dharavi shantytown. But first they must change the perceptions of their own families and friends
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The 10 best Lee “Scratch” Perry songs, according to The Bug

Greek resistance in Athens, 1944. Iannis Xenakis marching second from left

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The Box VS Aleš Veselý - 2​/​12​/​83 Bohemia (Free Download)


Even considering the absolute impermeability of so called Iron curtain, there still had happened several shows in Eastern block which had something to do with industrial music. In Czechoslovakia itself, of course against the will of guardians of communism, there still has been a few people who were able to attach some of the wild noisy metallish industrial music acts from abroad. Ones who remember the times of so called „goulash communism“ in 80's, can hardly imagine how could someone almost smuggle band like The Box from Sheffield consisting of members of the first Clock DVA incarnation, more specifically Paul Widger, Charlie Collins and Roger Quail with Terry Todd on bass.
Before Peter Hope, who also often gives his support to our releases, joined The Box, they had cooperated with various singers including Ken Bingley and Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire). As you can see even such an event could be held very in very secret almost conspiratorial environment so that even today only few people know that such an event had actually occurred. So it is our pleasure to bring you this memory from deep 80's, same time when Jarda Palat was starting his first projects. However now we are asking Peter Hope himself to tell us about that unique trip to socialistic Czechoslovakia:
"Every Instrument was taken out for inspection at the border. All 6 of Charlie’s horns tipped and turned. A long drive to Prague. Big apartment blocks. Parking at the Railway station amidst a sea of Trabants. Soviet Soldiers watching. Strange Westerners, strange hair and clothes.
Finally meeting up with Milos Curik & going to eat stew on long tables. Evening spent in a massive underground theatre where students were having their graduation ball. Totally Surreal rock’n’roll band played and people danced in their best clothes. Police pulled us over on the way back to the house. In the morning ‘telephone engineers’ arrived to fix a problem on the line, and bug the phone. We went to Ales Vesely’s yard full of the most incredible metal sculpture, drank wine & played the art with beaters & hammers in the cold brightness. A woman washed clothes in the stream & the gate squealed like some half beast half horn.
That night we played an illegal gig at university college Strahov. We played hard & fast. The audience sat on chairs & tried not applaud as that would have made it official. They failed! They collected money in a hat and were eager to talk to us. “Now we know what it would have been like to see the Sex Pistols” some one said. We ate that night in a small restaurant, drinking ‘expensive’ beer that the owners wanted us to pay for first, afraid we might not have the money for the bill.
When we left the following day we still had as much money with us as we’d had to exchange when we entered the country. We bought Silk Cut cigarettes, which none of us liked, and chocolate. It had been an amazing time, never forgotten, the people open, generous and friendly. We forgot to record the gig but a short tape of Ales’s Sculpture remains. 31 years later it still evokes the harsh beauty of that cold bright day in Bohemia."
(Peter Hope)
Tracks 1-6 are treatments of the original tape.
Speed adjustments, Reverb, Delay & Distortion added in keeping with the simple ideas of Tape Manipulations happening at the time.
Tracks 7-11 are the raw cassette recordings.
Track 12 is a further treatment of The Gate featured on Track 6.
The Box were - Charlie Collins, Peter Hope, Roger Quail, Terry Todd & Paul Widger.
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released 02 December 2014
Label: CS Industrial 1982-2010 ‎- CSi 024

Bear Stanley: Reflections on Life, LSD and DMT


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The Merry Pranksters: Trip or Treat


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Monica Jones: from transgender social worker to visa breach, to national threat

So that's my mental stimulation done for the day


Aubrey Powell: Syd Barrett (1970)

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What a sane drug policy looks like

...Some final food for thought: 44 percent of Americans report having used marijuana in their lifetimes, and 14 percent have used cocaine. In the Netherlands, those numbers stand at 26 percent and 5 percent, respectively
So how's the war on drugs working out for you?

The touching hug photo from Ferguson protests is a blatant lie

Why Do We Expect Artists to Work for Free? Here’s How We Can Change the System

Exile On Mean Streets?

About that vinyl revival

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R.I.P. Bobby Keys


Ad Break: Historic Hollywood Hills Appt

At the end of a cul de sac near the Hollywood Bowl, park your car in a garage carved into the hill. Walk through a gated tunnel to a private elevator where you'll be taken up 6 stories through the hill to the top of a Tuscan tower. Nestled in a quiet walk street enclave high above the bustle of Hollywood Blvd.
1bed, 1 bath includes the aforementioned private parking garage (remote door opener). Washer/Dryer, hardwood floors and terrace.
This is the apartment that Elliot Gould's character lived in in Robert Altman's 'The Long Goodbye'. A movie worth seeing if you're not familiar with it. Here is the brilliant intro where he tries to feed his cat (no joke):

Also featured in Kenneth Branagh's film 'Dead Again'. Author Michael Connelly lived and wrote there. David Copperfield lived up there for several years in the 80's while performing at the near-by Magic Castle.
The location is great. Quiet, no freeway noise, beautiful views yet a short walk to Hollywood and Highland and the subway. And a shorter walk to the Hollywood Bowl.
please see link for additional pictures:
http://supercube.net/broadview/broadview/broadview.html
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Tuesday 2 December 2014

How to tell if a toy is for boys or girls

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Flashlights & Black Holes: Gravenhurst's Bristol

Nick Talbot of Gravenhurst discusses his relationship with the city of Bristol and the ways it has shaped his songwriting
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Black Cab - Cherry Bar (1/12/13) & Howler (29/11/14) What a difference a year makes!

Set: Supermädchen/Underground Star/Black Angel/Sexy Polizei/Kornelia Ender/Go Slow/Hearts On Fire/Dream Baby Dream

Encore: Ghost Rider

A year ago, their fourth gig in three days. A free gig on a Sunday night at Cherry. I counted twenty three people in the audience.
Contrast with Sunday's album launch at Howler and boy am I regretting not taping that show now

 










All photos by Gennady Revzin
Video by Colin Anderson
Tascam recording by Tim Niblock

LOL! Go Karl...

30 days of the Dead (2014)

Download individual tracks or complete zip file
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Greil Marcus: Lipstick Traces - A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (PDF)

Greil Marcus began work on this book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. “I am an antichrist!” shouted singer Johnny Rotten—where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of blasphemy, adventure, and surprise.
This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands—demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life—seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris—based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and ’60s; the rioting students and workers of May ’68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage “Anarchy in the U.K.” and “God Save the Queen.”
Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
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Lumen Drones - Ira Furore

Monday 1 December 2014

Happy Birthday Viv!


Damn!

Update:

Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret

New Order - 5-8-6 (Extended 22:23 version)

Exile's Gig of the Year

Photos by Joe Lewit
Well following on from the let's be honest less than stellar show supporting Tangerine Dream, Black Cab hit the high notes at their album launch in Melbourne on Saturday night. Definitely the best I have ever seen them play with added appearances by the mighty Steve Law and Shags Chamberlain. Alongside the customary cover of Dream Baby Dream we were treated to a version of New Order's 5-8-6 as well. I did start to record the show but after a couple of minutes decided to stop and get the dancing shoes on

Dirty Three - NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (October 2012)


Set List
"Rain Song"
"The Pier"
"Last Horse On The Sand"
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Dirty 3 gig at Meredith Music Festival in 2004
Because the average age of the typical white Melburnian is twenty-five, it’s not plausible for them to claim they attended the Nirvana gig at the Palace in 1992. In 1992, all of today’s white Melburnians were about seven years old and living in Mount Waverley. This is where the Dirty 3 show comes in. It’s a gig that strengthens white Melburnian culture by providing an event around which its members can experience a sense of shared belonging. If you are new to white Melburnian culture, ask someone, “what’s Meredith like?” White Melburnians have talked each other to death over this show (remember: all of them were there), so a newcomer could easily parachute their way into a new friendship group by getting them to rehash their experiences to a fresh audience.
The Dirty 3 played at dusk on the Saturday night as storm clouds gathered over the stage. Thunder could be heard in the distance. Both literal and metaphorical electricity was in the air. The violinist had big hair, and everybody swore it was standing on end because of the lightning in the atmosphere. I don’t remember what happened after that
(Stuff white people like in Melbourne)