Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Cracks in the Kremlin matrix

The nondescript exterior doesn’t show it but musical history was made at 99 MacDougal Street in New York’s Greenwich Village. The address currently houses a couple Indian fast-food joints, one specializing in a sort of Punjabi burrito, but three decades ago a different kind of cultural fusion was being cooked up. Downstairs, in what is now another faceless Village comedy club, was the headquarters of 99 Records, a record-store-turned-record-label vital to the evolution of New York dance music, post-punk and hip hop.
Despite only 15 releases in less than five years of existence, 99 was among the most influential independent labels of its era, and that influence still reverberates today. A quintessential New York City label, 99 (pronounced “nine-nine,” not “ninety-nine”) sits somewhere between an American answer to the British label Rough Trade and a punky precursor to DFA. The label’s sound was both distinct and diverse, touching on post-punk, disco, dub reggae and even avant-classical, highlighted by the exhilarating experiments in dissonance, repetition and volume of guitarist/composer Glenn Branca; the mesmerizing minimalist art-funk of ESG; and the percolating, polyrhythmic grooves of Liquid Liquid...

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♪♫ The Ramones live at CBGB's (1977)

Part 1:
1. Blitzkrieg Bop
2. Sheena is a Punk Rocker
3. Beat on the Brat
4. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
Part 2:
1. Rockaway Beach
2. Cretin Hop
3. Oh, Oh, I Love Her So
4. Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
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♪♫ Queens of the Stone Age live @ Letterman 2013 (Full concert)

QUOTSA live on Letterman tracklist:

01:09 Boneface Intro
04:01 Keep Your Eyes Peeled
09:02 My God is the Sun
13:16 If I Had a Tail
18:21 The Vampyre of Time and Memory
22:23 Kalopsia
27:43 Smooth Sailing
33:33 I Sat by the Ocean
38:03 …Like Clockwork
44:22 I Appear Missing
54:12 Little Sister