Friday 25 January 2013
Thursday 24 January 2013
♪♫ Karl Hyde - Cut Clouds
April 2013 will see the release of Karl Hyde’s debut solo LP, Edgeland. It features nine tracks that were recorded over a year in London with multi-instrumentalist and producer Leo Abrahams (whom Karl met whilst collaborating with Brian Eno on Pure Scenius). Edgeland is a graceful and meditative collection that explores the limitless possibilities of what late film director Anthony Minghella christened ‘esoteric Underworld’ – something that’s existed on record since Dubnobasswithmyheadman.
Edgeland is released in Japan on April 10th and across the rest of the world on April 22nd on deluxe CD/DVD, standard CD, download and 12" vinyl. It is also available for physical pre-order in the underworldlive shop. The first 150 pre-orders from underworldlive (across all physical formats) will each receive a unique, signed and numbered photograph taken by Karl documenting the journeys through the edgelands that inspired the album. Each physical format purchase will also receive a digital version of the album in their inbox on the day of release (we of course aim to have pre-ordered physical stock with you on or very close to that date).
You can hear the first taster from Edgeland - 'Cut Clouds' and for a limited time only download the track for free here
Karl is currently rehearsing a new band in preparation for a series of live shows from the Spring onwards, the first of which is SonarSound in Tokyo on the 7th April 2013. More to be announced soon.
Johnny Cash and his prison reform campaign
Cash's famous live albums recorded at Folsom Prison and San Quentin are the stuff of music legend - likely to feature on any critic's list of defining albums of the 1960s.
But it's much less well-known that these were only two of many prison concerts Cash played over the course of almost 30 years.
Fitting the gigs in around his relentless touring schedule, the "Man in Black" performed for inmates all over the US, always unpaid, and in the process, became a passionate and vocal spokesman for prisoners' rights.
"He always identified with the underdog," says Tommy Cash, Johnny's youngest brother.
"He identified with the prisoners because many of them had served their sentences and had been rehabilitated in some cases, but were still kept there the rest of their lives. He felt a great empathy with those people."
The roots of Cash's empathy lie as far back as 1953, when as a 21-year-old radio operator in the US Air Force, he saw the film Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison and was inspired to write a song.
Folsom Prison Blues, released two years later, after Cash had signed to Sun Records, turned the young singer into a star.
The song, and in particular the now-notorious line "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die," was sung with such raw menace that many assumed Cash knew what he was talking about.
"There's people today that you can talk to and they will believe that he actually did that," says WS "Fluke" Holland, Johnny's larger-than-life former drummer.
"Johnny Cash shot a man to watch him die. He was a mean dude," he chuckles then shakes his head. "The only time he was in prison is when we played in them..."
Continue reading
Johnny Cash Live At Folsom Prison (Photos)
The Other Dream Team (Trailer)
Can't view this vid here in Australia but see if you can!
Wednesday 23 January 2013
♪♫ Living Colour with Furious Five's Melle Mel and Wonder Mike - The Message
Bonus:
Rapper's Delight
Tuesday 22 January 2013
♪♫ Tack>>Head - Funky President
Rehearsal in New York City (March 22, 2009) before a show at the Highline Ballroom
Richard Hell: I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp (An Autobiography)
The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll...Preorder @Amazon HERE
From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. His father died when he was seven, and at seventeen he left his mother and sister behind and headed for New York City, place of limitless possibilities. He arrived penniless with the idea of becoming a poet; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, starting such seminal bands as Television, the Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids—whose song "Blank Generation" remains the defining anthem of the era. Hell was significantly responsible for creating CBGB as punk ground zero; his Voidoids toured notoriously with the Clash, and Malcolm McLaren would credit Hell as inspiration for the Sex Pistols. There were kinetic nights in New York's club demi-monde, descent into drug addiction, and an ever-present yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art.
RICHARD'S MARCH READINGS/SIGNINGS: for I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, include (all free):
--Mar 14: NYC Barnes & Noble, Union Sq. (hosted interview)
--Mar 15: Huntington (LI) NY Book Revue
--Mar 19: NYC Bookmarc
--Mar 21: Seattle WA Rendezvous Bar (hosted interv.)
--Mar 23: Portland OR Powell's Books
--Mar 25: San Francisco CA City Lights
--Mar 27: Los Angeles CA Skylight Books...
For more details, see HarperCollins page. We expect there'll be added a reading in Minneapolis ca. March 30, and one in Chicago for early May.
Via
(Thanx Dray!)
Monday 21 January 2013
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