Friday 21 October 2016

Trump Debate Heavy Rock Bands

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Wednesday 19 October 2016

The Cat in the Hat says:


Thor & Friends - Medieval


A video for the Thor & Friends song Medieval, directed by Andy Byers. "I met Andy in 2004. He was playing in great band called Minus Story made up of 4 childhood friends from Boonville Missouri. I was touring with Shearwater. I loved these young , smart men and their dark twisted humor. In fact Jordan, the singer and keyboard player of Minus Story is now a core member of Thor&Friends. Andy has gone on to make all sets and costumes for Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno film as well as other artistic achievements. He still does work with her and he started a record label called Cosmic Dreamer. I was over the moon when he offered to make a video for Thor&Friends."
-Thor Harris

Adam Curtis: HyperNormalisation (BBC 2016)


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Tuesday 18 October 2016

David Fevyer: Reading the Anthropocene through science and apocalypse in the selected contemporary fiction of J.G. Ballard, Kurt Vonnegut, Cormac McCarthy and Ian McEwan

White House spokesman scoffs at 'snorting' Trump calling for drug tests

Amalgamated Futureless Artists - AFA's Song Around The World


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Clinton wants a public health response to the opioid crisis. Trump wants more of the old drug war

Shipwreck CSI: Identifying the victims of a migrant tragedy

John Perry Barlow Needs A Miracle

Bob Weir - Live at The Capitol Theatre Port Chester NY (16/10/16)

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Bob's 69th Birthday Show with Steve Kimock, Bryan Devendorf, Scott Devendorf, Jon Shaw, Josh Kaufman and Leslie Mendelson. Aaron Dessner also performed with the band for most of the show. He was originally set to tour with the band but had to cancel. Three unannounced female backup singers were also present.
Got to say that Weir's new album 'Blue Mountain' is one of the surprise albums of the year for me. I know a lot of my old deadhead friends had no time for The National curated 'Day of The Dead' covers album but it certainly seems to have fired new life into Bobby

Setlist:
Set 1:
One More Saturday Night
Peggy-O
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Blue Mountain
One More River to Cross
Darkest Hour
Lay My Lily Down
Ghost Towns
Dark Hollow
Gonesville
Set 2:
Mama Tried
West L.A. Fadeaway
Eyes of the World
Uncle John's Band
Morning Dew
Not Fade Away
Encore:
Ki-Yi Bossie
Brokedown Palace
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Live @ Amoeba Records Hollywood (27/9/16)
K.C. Moan (Soundcheck)


Intro
Walkin' Blues
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Blue Mountain
Only a River*
Lay My Lily Down*
Peggy-O
Ki-Yi Bossie*
* = w/ Josh Kaufman

The Pop Group cancel all upcoming gigs

I do hope that everything is OK
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Monday 17 October 2016

Sunday 16 October 2016

Headline o'the day


Man mixing LSD and cough syrup saves dog from imaginary fire

HA!


Bob Weir - Live at Kings Theatre Brooklyn NY (14/10/16)

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The white flight of Derek Black

Saturday 15 October 2016

Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Adrian Sherwood - Live at Dekmantel Festival Amsterdam (7/8/16)


German Efficiency


Friday 14 October 2016

Thursday 13 October 2016


Molly Crabapple has found a different way to tell stories


Hmmm! The day the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature went electric






Maybe they just mispronounced Don DeLillo's name...music isn't literature and he didn't get it for Tarantula!

Total Meltdown



Dario Fo, Nobel-winning playwright, dies aged 90

Dario Fo: Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Manchester Bib & Braces Theatre production of Dario Fo's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" filmed in 1984 - written and directed by Gavin Richards who also plays the "madman"

HA!


How the Seinfeld theme was made


Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement Live in Concert (Sheffield Magna 6/3/10)


The Human League - Being Boiled (What's On Granada TV 1978)


Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker

Notes From Chaos: Page 55 - John Murphy (1959 - 2015)


One year passed since John Murphy's death and Notes From Chaos takes a look at some of his works, associations and collaborations dividing the 2 hour podcast into two sections: First hour focused in the 80's and the second hour in the 2000's paying tribute to one of the most active and multifarious musicians in Australia. The episode's sounds varied from New Wave (The Associates) and industrial (Lustmord) to Neofolk (Death In June & Boyd Rice's Scorpion Wind) including bands being member like Knifeladder and Last Dominion Lost and less known collaborations with Espectra Negra (which i thank her for her contribution) and Australian experimental band Gum.
R.I.P. John Murphy (1959 - 2015)
Tracklist:
Whirlywirld - Signals (Whirlywirld 7" / Missing Link / 1979)Current 93 - A Visit To Dogland (V/A - The Fight Is On LP / L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords / 1985)The Associates - Nude Spoons (The Peel Sessions LP/CD / Strange Fruit / 1989)
Gene Loves Jezebel - Screaming (For Emmalene) (Screaming (For Emmalene) 12" / Situation Two / 1983)
John Murphy - Father Of Skins-Panik (V/A - Garbage Sandwich 4CS / Beast 666 Tapes / 1992)
Lustmord - Comahon Q.Q. Comahon (Paradise Disowned LP / Side Effects / 1986)
Orchestra Of Skin & Bone - Glory (Untitled LP / Major Records / 1986)
Krank - Scry (Live) (Chaos CD / Dark Vinyl Records / 1991)
Gum & John Murphy - Blood On The Floor (20 Years In Blue Movies And Yet To Fake An Orgasm LP / Not On Label / 1988)
Andrew King & The Oval Legionary Chorale - Legionnaire In Algiers (V/A - Tutti A Casa! Ain Soph Tribute 2CD / Hau Ruck! SPQR / 2003)
Last Dominion Lost - Ritual In The Dark (Snowdrops From A Curate's Garden LP / The Epicurean / 2015)
Espectra Negra & John Murphy - Offering To Sanwa-Dupa (Savage Justice CS / Self-Released (Espectra Negra) / 2013)
Gerechtigkeits Liga – Justice (Dystopia LP / Zyklus Records / 2011)
Naevus - Like Arms (Behaviour CD / Operative Records / 2002)
Browning Mummery - Sutured (Chants Of The Bardo Engine MP3 / Self-Released / 2015)
Wertham - Man-Ho'-Rexia (Maladolescenza 7" / Deathangle Absolution Records / 2014)
Knifeladder - Red Drum (Organic Traces CD / Operative Records / 2002)
Foresta Di Ferro - Harmony Of Pen And Sword (Bury Me Standing CD / Hau Ruck! / 2003)
Scorpion Wind - The Cruelty Of The Heavens (Heaven Sent 2LP / Twilight Command/New European Recordings / 1996)
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John Murphy - My Father of Serpents

Dear Bruce: The thing we wanted to say

Joe R. Lansdale: Why My East Texas Neighbors are Voting for Trump

Mekon ft Schooly D - Saturday Night (Fritz Catlin Mix)


With Jim Whelan on bass

Wednesday 12 October 2016

Republican Enemy

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Tuesday 11 October 2016

Classy


Painting by Scott Listfield

I paint astronauts and, sometimes, dinosaurs.
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, well before I was born, so I have no firsthand knowledge of how it was received. I don’t know if people really believed we'd be living in space in 2001, if we'd have robot butlers and flying cars, geodesic lunar homes, and genetically reconstituted dinosaurs helping or eating us. But from Lost in Space to the Jetsons to Jurassic Park, it seems that popular culture has fostered this space-age perception of the future. Generations raised on these TV shows, movies, comic books, and novels are now grown and living in a future filled with mini vans, Starbucks, iPads, and Hip Hop videos. In many ways, the year 2001 failed to live up to expectations. And yet the world today is peculiar in ways unimagined in 1957, when Sputnik was launched, or in 1968, when 2001 was released, or even in 1994, at the dawn of the internet. The present is in fact a very unusual place, and it's strangest in the ubiquity of things we take for granted.
The astronaut in my paintings is simply here to explore the present

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Stupid and contagious: What if Donald Trump is not “dumbing down” and actually is this dumb?