Mingiedi Mawangu R.I.P.

Mingiedi Mawangu passed away last night (15/4), in Kinshasa. He was 85. He founded Konono No.1 in the 1960s and invented his own electrified likembe, which gave Konono No.1 its distinctive sound. He led the band and toured with them until a few years ago.
He will be dearly missed by his son Augustin and the rest of the band. The funeral will take place next week
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'I had a moment of unexpected compassion for him'

Chunky Mark visits Adrian's house

Test Pressing meets Adrian Sherwood

Growing up in 90s Russia

Coming October 6th

M Train is a journey through eighteen “stations.” It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself

The Apartments - Twenty One

I can just tell that this is going to be very high in the song o'the year charts come December here at Exile Towers

Teacher Calls Jacques Derrida’s College Admission Essay on Shakespeare 'Quite Incomprehensible' (1951)

Joni

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Lou Reed’s Sister Sets the Record Straight About His Childhood

Merrill Reed Weiner: A Family in Peril

Ryan Adams and The Shining - Live @Coachella (12/4/15)

01. Let It Ride
02. Banter (Galaga)
03. Stay With Me
04. This House Is Not For Sale
05. Dirty Rain
06. Banter (Dirty Rain, Band Intros)
07. Blue Light
08. Magnolia Mountain
09. Banter (That's Music)
10. When the Stars Go Blue
11. Banter (17 Minute Guitar Solo)
12. Oh My Sweet Carolina
13. Banter (Thank You's)
14. Come Pick Me Up > Outro
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Man - Bananas (Live @The Roundhouse 12/76)

Here's a photo of one of my oldest friends, ex Fall manager Richard Thomas 'interviewing' Deke Leonard & Terry Williams at his Laugharne Festival last weekend. The session was filmed for BBC Wales so hopefully it will surface in the not too distant future
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John Barrymore and the Missing Alaskan Totem Pole

Would it ever return home?

Dabrye - This Is Where I Came In

Kick Ass!!

Oh FFS!

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