Thursday, 19 April 2012

Dick Clark Passes Away At 82

'Dick Clark, the perpetually youthful-looking television host whose long-running daytime song-and-dance fest, ‘American Bandstand,’ did as much as anyone or anything to advance the influence of teenagers and rock ’n’ roll on American culture, died on Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 82.'

@The New York Times

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Why Clingy People Feel Colder

The Forty Year Itch

NSFW Girlz With Gunz #165

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The Secret History of Warp Records

'By the midpoint of the 1990s the momentum of the independent sector had stalled almost to a halt.
Rough Trade and Factory had both ceased trading. Creation and 4AD were in the hands of a support staff as [Alan] McGee and [Ivo] Watts-Russell, exhausted and broken, had removed themselves from the day-to-day running of their compaines. Daniel Miller was finding himself in the difficult position of firing and rehiring staff as Mute’s finances became increasingly volatile. With the end of Rough Trade Distribution came the end of the most sympathetic route to market for independently released music – a market that was now beginning to harden into a professional era of double-format CD singles, high-end advertising campaigns and overpriced albums. The music often associated with independence or indie – four-piece guitar bands referencing the Sixties – had become mainstream and rebranded Britpop. Almost none of the bands associated with it were signed to independent labels...'

Via Fact