Five Dials (Festival issue)

Five Dials is a free monthly online literary magazine courtesy of London publisher Hamish Hamilton. The upcoming Festival issue of the PDF mag features a host of music luminaries doing their best with just words. In it, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy writes a piece about his song "Losing My Edge", Ryan Adams writes a poem, Bloc Party's Kele Okereke writes a short story, and Mike Watt tells the story behind his contribution to Sonic Youth's song "Providence".

Other contributors include Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500/Luna), onetime Guided by Voices member James Greer, Iggy Pop, and artist Raymond Pettibon (artist for Black Flag, Sonic Youth's Goo), as well as pieces on seminal festivals including Woodstock and Burning Man.

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So the kid didn't speak to her mom about sex education and doesn't tell her she's getting married! Hmmmm!!!

Record Labels Sue Over Use of Music on Adult Sites

♪♫ Hey Champ - Cold Dust Girl

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Regaining Sexual Enjoyment After Sexual Trauma

Studies of violence toward women tell us that one in every four women will be the victim of rape during her lifetime. Whether perpetrated by a stranger or by someone known to her, the emotional consequences of sexual assault usually persist long after the victim’s physical traumas have healed.

Rape is not a sex act. It is an act of violent criminal assault during which a sexual organ is used as a weapon to humiliate, degrade, and inflict pain. This unusual weapon of choice, combined with the intimate nature of the violation, oftentimes leads to a post-traumatic stress disorder known as Rape Trauma Syndrome. Symptoms of RTS are profound because rape is not only a crime of life-threatening terror, but it’s a devastating violation of one’s personal power and dignity. Effects of RTS may include altered concentration and unexplained illness; sleep disturbances and eating disorders; depression and anxiety. One especially common expression of RTS surrounds changes in a victim’s perception of her sexuality and her ability to feel pleasure.

In talking about rape, it’s very important to underscore the fact that rape has nothing to do with consensual sex. It doesnt feel like sex; it feels like being battered. Nevertheless, the experience of rape is sometimes emotionally internalized and then generalized to cloud future sexual experiences. A survivor may feel persistently on guard or may find that any sexual contact rekindles the anger, fear and shame associated with her rape trauma. In the worst situations, all sexual partners and sexual interludes seem like further violations. When rape trauma affects a woman’s capacity to desire or enjoy sex with her partner, then their relationship is a victim of violence, too...

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Pseudoscience's "Awful Poo Lady" can't flush twitterings
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Julian Assange: the whistleblower

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Reds!!!

Boris Johnson and the Veronica Wadley affair: an open letter to David Cameron and Nick Clegg

Spiritualized's Jason Pierce Talks Ladies and Gentlemen Shows

After reissuing Spiritualized's 10.0 masterpiece Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space and playing the album in full on European stages last year, Jason Pierce (aka J. Spaceman) will bring a choir, strings, and horns to New York City's Radio City Music Hall for one more Ladies and Gentlemen show July 30. It's being touted as the last gig of its kind-- which makes sense since Pierce is well on his way toward a new album, as he told us in a recent interview. He said we could expect a new Spiritualized LP "early next year, if I'm lucky."

Pitchfork: How did these Ladies and Gentlemen shows originally come about?
Jason Pierce: We did an All Tomorrow's Parties show in Australia with Nick Cave. We did one show on top of Mount Buller and played down the mountain-- the crowd sort of comes down the slope with you. We stayed up all night and the guys from ATP asked if we'd ever play Ladies and Gentlemen live, and I said, "Yeah." It was a decision made at altitude-- they got me at the right time. It could've been any album. If they'd asked for Pure Phase or Let It Come Down, we would've wound up doing that.
As much as an audience wants to hear new stuff, they're rarely receptive to hearing a whole new record as a live show. But with Ladies and Gentlemen, they've had 13 years to sit with it and they've got these ideas about where the songs take them. We did the shows in England, and I wasn't going to do this for the rest of my life, so we wound it down. And then we got talking, like, "If we don't take it to America now, we ain't never gonna take it." New York is as far as we could go, unfortunately.
Pitchfork: It doesn't seem like you're somebody who looks back a lot. Has it been hard for you to dedicate your time to this 13-year-old album?
JP: Well, I'm making a new record right now. But, for a lot of bands, it seems like these kinds of shows with all old songs are the best thing they can do. I'm not saying that with any disrespect, but I don't think that's the case with what we're doing. I don't even want to chance it.
And, with Ladies and Gentlemen, I don't think that the band that made that record could've played it when it came out. It's like it's taken this amount of time to do it real justice live. Now we can play it from beginning to end and it's going to make real fucking sense. I think the album I'm working on now is already more important.
Pitchfork: How far along are you with the new album?
JP: Quite a ways. I'm all over the place when I make a record; I don't even know what I'm doin'. As soon as things start to work, that's when a lot of problems start because you have to start raising everything to that level.
Pitchfork: Has revisiting Ladies and Gentlemen inspired you to do more of those types of big arrangements on the new material?
JP: Yeah, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't influencing the music I make now.

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Was lucky enough to be at that ATP Mt Buller gig, I do hope that ATP returns to Australia in the not too distant future (with The Pop Group in tow???)

Not so Red!

♪♫ M.I.A. w/ Martin Rev - Born Free (Letterman Show 13/7)

Fugn hell!!!

Sheer brilliance!!!

Lee Perry 4 President Mix

"a 2 hour Lee Perry extravaganza i recorded for the BluntBeats crew a lil while ago"
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Lee Perry – I Am The Upsetter [Amalgamated AMG808]
Lee Perry – People Funny Boy [Doctor Bird DB 1146]
Lee Perry – You Crummy [Trojan TR629]
Mellotones – Nonesuch Busted Me Bet [Upset WIRL LP3952]
Upsetter All Stars – Handy Cap [Trojan TR616]
Judge Winchester – Public Jestering [Black Art TSLWB1415]
Lee Perry & The Upsetters – Rude Walking [Blank 10" Dubplate]
Lee Perry & The Upsetters – Run For Cover [Wirl WIRL 1972]
Ansell Collins & Upsetters – Night Doctor [Upsetter FLP 7778]
Lee Perry – Sipreano [Upsetter DYNA LP1545]
Lee Perry & The Soulettes – Doctor Dick [Island WI292]
Charlie Ace & Lee Perry – Cow Thief Skank [Upsetter US398A]
The Upsetters – Black Panta [Upsetter 10"]
Upsetters – Bucky Skank [Downtown DT513]
Upsetters – Bathroom Skank [Justice League DTLP101]
Leo Graham – Doctor Demand[Upsetter FLP 118]
Upsetters – Black Bat [Upsetter FLP 119]
Leo Graham – Black Candle [Upsetter FN7969]
Leo Graham – Big Tongue Buster (Not Leo Graham, is Prince Jazzbo)[Upsetter RRSLP2492]
Burt Walters – Honey Love [Trojan TR636A]
Burt Walters – Evol Yenoh [Blank WIRLLP3959]
Junior Byles – Mumbling & Grumbling [Black Art TSLWB1408]
Inspirations – Tighten Up [Trojan TR613A]
Sir Lord Comic – Django Shoots First [Upsetter FLP7436]
U Roy – Stick Together [Blank]
Jimmy & Glen – Hypocrites [Upsetter RRSLP5086]
Jimmy & Glen – Nine Finger Jerry Lewis [Upsetter RRSLP5087]
Prince Django – Hot Tip [Upsetter SCR27]
Anthony ‘Sangie’ Davis & Lee Perry – Words [Black Art 12"LEE PERRY 2051]
Junior Byles – Beat Down Babylon [Upsetter DSRLP4750]
Maxie, Niney & Scratch – Babylon Burning [Upsetter US386]
U-Roy & The Children – Yama Khy [Perries RRSVP4338]
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Small Axe [Upsetter DYNALP3921]
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Duppy Conqueror [Upsetter DYNAUPSETTER 2110]
Upsetters – Freak Out Skank [Upsetter FLP 7572B]
Upsetters – Jungle Lion [Upsetter FLP7572A]
Devon Irons & Dr. Alimentado – Vampire [Black Art LEEPERRY 2052]
Devon Irons – Vampire [Orchid ORC709A]

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