Attention NEW YORK!

Tackhead tickets at half price from goldstar.com!

$11 plus $3.50 service charge.
See here for all the gig details.
(I am so jealous!)

Swedish dance bands of the 70's

Be very afraid!
More. So much more here (including the band with the most unfortunate name; The Schytts.)

(Again my thanks to SirMick!)
UPDATE:
Hundreds more sartorially challenged Swedish dancebands here.

Bazooka Production No. 1 (Feb 1975)

Much more art from the very wonderful "Bazooka Graphique" crew here.

I am not sure when I first came across the Bazooka art collective, sadly not as well known outside France as they should be. They did some illustrations for the NME back in 1977 and were responsible alongside Barney Bubbles for the stunning cover for Elvis Costello's 'Armed Forces' album. I have to keep sending off to France for their books (a very expensive way of getting them by the time you pay postage!) I will have to start squirreling away my pennies as there is a new book due out in June.
There was a site 'Une Regarde Moderne' that commented on the news daily in art form and from what I can gather with my (very) limited French that there were problems with the manipulation of copyrighted photos.
Pranksters! They used to do supplements for the French paper 'Liberation' and after the artwork was approved they would change it just before printing!
And to those of you who think that it is just "painting over photographs" well - you haven't a fucking clue!

Kiki Picasso - Minh

Kiki et Loulou Picasso's blog 'Underground' can be found here.

Much more art here.

Loulou Picasso - ("( ' o ' )"){pOoL!!

Loulou et Kiki Picasso's blog 'Underground' can be found here.
Much more art here.

Nerdcats

More here.
(Thanx SirMick!)

Wilco & Feist collaborate

&

Leslie Feist joins Jeff Tweedy for a duet on the next Wilco album due in June.

Story at 'Pitchfork' here.

Haqq (Truth)

Calligraphy by Fahdi (Samir Malik)

Sufi تصوّف‎

Sufism.

'Sufi Dancer' by Marie Taylor.

Fidel Castro's blog

Reflections by Comrade Fidel here (published in 8 languages!)

"I will never enjoy a curry again!"

Woman bites off partner's tongue!

Story from the 'BBC' here.

The Closed Zone

New animation by Yoni Goodman (Waltz With Bashir).

www.closedzone.com
(Thanx to 'the hangover-helper' for bringing this to my attention.)

The Holy Grail is mine!!!

Been searching for this (vinyl) for years.
I once saw the CD in a shop but didn't have a CD player at the time. However as it was withdrawn by the band themselves I learnt my lesson and started buying CD's before I had a player.

Hell as a kid I was buying records before I had a record player!
Anyway a copy of this just went on sale and I bought it (allegedly one of only 500 copies made)!

Feel as tho' I have just won a competition for the first time in my life!!!

Peace

Belief?