Tuesday, 1 September 2009

Jay Z featuring Kanye West - Hate

Yidcore -They Tried To Kill Us. They Failed. Let's Eat!

"After battling Adam Sandlers, Bettezillas and a fair few lawsuits, Melbourne band Yidcore now take on their greatest foe yet... PIGLER! The awesome new animated video - part Animal Farm, part 50's comic book and part South Park. Directed by Yeap Heng Shen and Produced by ANIMATION CLUB!"

Check this out

Might As Well - The Persuasions Sing The Grateful Dead (2000)
Dead a cappella
With only their collective voices, The Persuasions can turn almost any musical composition into smooth, groovin' doo-wop or gospel. They also have fun stretching the boundaries at the same time. It wasn't all that surprising with Frankly a cappella - The Persuasions Sing Zappa (their Frank Zappa covers disc) because doo-wop was such a crucial building block in Frank's early constructions. But the Grateful Dead? Those guys were into bluegrass and banjo music back when the Persuasions were first conceptualizing their stylistic blend of
street corner harmonics and black-centric doo-wop. Since then, The Persuasions have transcended those root styles to encompass various musical genres, incorporating proper instrumentation when it serves their purpose (as in the gospel-tinged piano work in "Ship Of Fools," below). You like The Dead? You like a cappella? You should like this, even if you never really listen that much to either. (@320)


Here Comes Sunshine (0:28
)
Might As Well (3:30)
Lazy River Road (5:34)
Loose Lucy (4:23)
Ripple (3:11)
Brokedown Palace (4:25)
Liberty (5:18)
Sugaree (5:38)
Ship Of Fools (8:20)
He's Gone (6:29)
It Must Have Been The Roses (4:51)
One More Saturday Night (5:34)
Bertha (5:37)
I Bid You Goodnight (2:05)
Black Muddy River (4:14)
@ 'Never Get Out Of The Boat'
Big thanx Willard!

Need...

Bugger it - a quarter to two in the morning, well and truly beer o'clock!

New Thom Yorke 12" due Sept 22

New Thom Yorke 12" on the Way?

Nothing like (possible) news of even more new material from those busy Radiohead guys. According to an Exclaim! report (via TwentyFourBit), Thom Yorke is set to release a limited edition 12" featuring two new songs called "Apart by Horses" and "The Hollow Earth" September 22 via TBD. And limited means limited; the story claims only about 8,000 copies of the vinyl-only release will be available worldwide.

There's no official word on this release just yet, but it seems to fall in line with those Twilight soundtrack rumors and the modest bounty of new material put forth by the Radiohead camp lately, including the stealthy leak "These Are My Twisted Words", the string-y tribute "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)", and Yorke's cover of Mark Mulcahy's "All for the Best".

Meanwhile, Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail to the Thief were reissued last week, too.

@ 'Pitchfork'

'Mind Shut Down' 2008 (sculpture by Subodh Gupta)


Monday, 31 August 2009

The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms (Live NY)

Cannot wait for the expanded reissue of 'Crazy Rhythms' and I hope that someone records the Flaming Lips curated ATP gig where The Feelies will be playing the whole album.

Bonus audio:
'Crazy Rhythms' recorded live on 13th March this year at 'Johnny Brenda's'

The Crystal Method (featuring Matisyahu) - Drown In The Now

Not forgotten

In memory of the thousands of men & women executed by the Islamic regime of Iran in the 1980's and the hundreds of young people who were killed during the uprising by the Iranian people in June 2009.

More on Blackwater/Xe

"When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA. With Blackwater's lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot spots around the world, company officials offered the services of foreigners supposedly skilled at tracking terrorists in lawless regions and countries where the CIA had no working relationships with the government. Blackwater told the CIA that it "could put people on the ground to provide the surveillance and support – all of the things you need to conduct an operation," a former senior CIA official familiar with the secret program told The Associated Press..."
@ 'HuffPo'

Random ham radio trollfight: August 29 2009 Los Angeles CA

Two trolls on ham radio, one identified as "G-K," the other as "Robert" or "R-J" overheard accidentally on August 29, 2009, while surfing first responder frequencies during the August 2009 Los Angeles wildfires.

The two men argued with each other about various technical subjects of interest to radio ops, then discussed drugs and past jail time, then notes on an Andy Griffith show marathon, then torture they'd like to perform on each other.

Technical note: sorry about the audible LOLs -- a friend held the scanner in their lap, and I held my iPhone 3Gs above the scanner, using "voice memo" app to record the audio.

Boing Boing comment thread on the item here and this is G-K!

'Animal Cam'

The Museum of Animal Perspectives sticks cameras on the heads of animals and uploads the resulting videos to Flickr. I'm fond of the armadillocam, but wolfcam and cowcam are pretty cool too. Ooh! Pigcam! Goatcam! Cow licking own rearcam!

DUB FX - Step On MY Trip (Video Remix)

For J Spacebubs: Flower Fairy & DUB FX - Row Your Boat

August 2009 in the gaggeldub studio 53, Kaulitz, Germany.
Dub Fx the street-loop-beatboxer grew up in St Kilda / Melbourne / Australia performing in various bands before hitting the world-wide road. Dub Fx uses Roland BOSS effect & loop pedals to create sounds which when layered creates a live musical construct. Predominantly Dub Fx can be found busking through Europe with his Girlfriend the ‘Flower Fairy’.