At 'This Land Is Your Land' - A Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert on
March 10th in Tulsa - The Flaming Lips re imagined Guthrie's songs with
iPads. This is the first song they played, the folk standard 'Vigilante
Man'
It’s a rare picture that encompasses an era; even the most justly
famous photographs very rarely manage the feat. Eisenstaedt’s “V-J Day
in Times Square,” for instance, perfectly illustrated the rapturous mood
of a nation - and much of the world - at the end of the Second World
War, but no one would argue that the image somehow captured the
five-year war itself. Bill Eppridge’s haunting picture of Robert
Kennedy’s assassination in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen in June 1968
distilled the darkest, most murderous currents of the Age of Aquarius,
but no one says of that one photograph, “That was the Sixties.”
So, yes, it’s phenomenally rare for a single photo to evoke both a
discrete moment, and an entire epoch. But that is exactly what Robert
Capa’s now-iconic “Falling Soldier” manages to do; there, in one frame,
made at the very moment a Loyalist fighter in Spain is shot and killed,
one encounters a distillation of the Fascist violence and the brutally
extinguished Republican sense of hope - hope for a new, free,
egalitarian society - that ultimately came to define the Spanish Civil
War... MORE
Call Signs track 'Rescue' from the 2009 Radio 3RRR live to air we did on
Karen Leng's excellent, world famous Kinky Afro show. We've mixed
these for the bonus disk of the US release of Call Signs coming out in
the US in May on Parasol/Hidden Agenda.
Features Rich Andrew on drums, Anthony Paine on bass, Alex Jarvis on
guitar, Steve Law on weird electronics, Coates on vox and James Lee on
lead guitar (pre-order it here http://www.parasol.com/index.php/artists/black-cab) This was a pretty frenetic version, amped up by the almost no-show of
Steve Law who's car broke down that arvo on a major highway. He made it
with seconds to spare just as the red 'on air' light flicked on and 300
punters in the performance space looked on... Via
A collection of previously unreleased recordings from the seminal krautrock band Can will be released via Mute on June 19 in the U.S. and June 18 in Europe. The Lost Tapes is a 3xCD box set of studio and live recordings as well as soundtrack works for films that never saw release. Check out the opening cut, "Millionenspiel". The box set was compiled from over 30 hours of music found at Can's studio in Weilerswist, Germany, as the space was disassembled and moved to the German Rock N Pop Museum in Gronau, Germany. The tracks range from 1968-1977 and feature Holger Czukay (bass), Michael Karoli (guitar), Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards), and vocals by both Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki. The release was curated by Schmidt and Mute's Daniel Miller, and compiled by Schmidt and collaborator Jono Podmore, who also edited the collection. An event celebrating Can's Lost Tapes will take place on April 17 at the New York venue Le Poisson Rouge, at which Schmidt and Podmore will perform and discuss material from the release.