Tuesday, 8 January 2013

And thank you for the new single. From Quietus: Joyous news this morning as we tuned into Radio 4's Today programme only to find that David Bowie has surprise released a new track at 5am to celebrate his birthday, and has a new album in 2013. Oh my! With Bowie's recent health scares, we thought that this might never happen. The Next Day will be released on March 16th 2013. Now, not that we want to speculate, but is this a fourth part to the Berlin trilogy of albums? According to the artwork on iTunes, the artwork is the same as Heroes, but with a white square and the words 'the next day' superimposed on it. Then, just listen to the Tony Visconti-produced new track 'Where Are We Now?', with it's lyrics "had to get the train / from Potsdamer Platz" and the video (see above) that features footage of Berlin, and Bowie's face projected onto a shape, by long-time collaborator Tony Oursler. The song itself, well, it's proper Bowie, but with a really gorgeous swell, and at times heart-rending reflective tone to it. Brilliant stuff. My word. Go to the Bowie website here to listen. The Telegraph quotes a "spokesman" as saying the news came "from out of nowhere", adding "Throwing shadows and avoiding the industry treadmill is very David Bowie despite his extraordinary track record that includes album sales in excess of 130 million not to mention his massive contributions in the area of art, fashion, style, sexual exploration and social commentary."

♪♫ Macklemore - The Town

Monday, 7 January 2013

♪♫ Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye - Seneca (1/1/13)

Patti and Lenny perform at the 39th Annual New Year's Day Marathon at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. Patti spoke of the tragedies of 2012: Hurricane Sandy and the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. She sang this song for the children.

Pere Ubu - Free White

Report: States With Stand Your Ground Laws See More Homicides

More Guns = More Killing

US Mass Shootings, 1982-2012: Data From Mother Jones' Investigation

Steubenville Leaders Attempt to Combat Anonymous's Accusations of Rape Case Cover Up

Izhar cardboard bike project

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Mattress Grave - Let’s Go Over Information To A Centre Of Culture

bodies that need electricity to survive, therefore libraries need electricity to live
main street looking for emergency services to continue my lifespan
trend #2 today where two hours would be incredibly beneficial
libraries that are document archive experiences
the visceral nature of this by all who can order escapist fantasies off the short order menu
getting with H. sapiens and the painstaking efforts of government service providers
higher self through self-help guides and tourist maps
paradigm of “need” changing, evolving, and is very little left in arteries
laptops with super-intelligence that provide funding for 2,509 Libraries
mind uploading, everything that was on Google circa 1999

released 06 January 2013
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Queens of the Stone Age: Secrets of the Sound

Secret and Lies of the Bailout

It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen to the bankers and their allies in Washington tell it, you'd think the bailout was the best thing to hit the American economy since the invention of the assembly line. Not only did it prevent another Great Depression, we've been told, but the money has all been paid back, and the government even made a profit. No harm, no foul – right?
Wrong.
It was all a lie – one of the biggest and most elaborate falsehoods ever sold to the American people. We were told that the taxpayer was stepping in – only temporarily, mind you – to prop up the economy and save the world from financial catastrophe. What we actually ended up doing was the exact opposite: committing American taxpayers to permanent, blind support of an ungovernable, unregulatable, hyperconcentrated new financial system that exacerbates the greed and inequality that caused the crash, and forces Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to increase risk rather than reduce it. The result is one of those deals where one wrong decision early on blossoms into a lush nightmare of unintended consequences. We thought we were just letting a friend crash at the house for a few days; we ended up with a family of hillbillies who moved in forever, sleeping nine to a bed and building a meth lab on the front lawn...

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The Blue Notes in Europe

ANTIBES JAZZ FESTIVAL, FRANCE
July 1964
First appearance of the Blue Notes in Europe
Chris McGregor - piano, leader; Dudu Pukwana - alto saxophone; Nick Moyake - tenor saxophone; Mongezi Feza - trumpet; Louis Moholo - drums; Johnny Dyani - bass
Nick Mokaye returns to South Africa where sadly he soon dies.