How to send an 'E mail' (Database Thames TV 1984)

Change Itself: An Art Apart - Genesis Breyer P'Orridge (Trailer)

To sum up the life and work of British artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is close to impossible. Not only because of the wide range of artistic disciplines, but also because of the timespan, since the mid 1960s to the present day, that has been saturated by hundreds of records, thousands of concerts, exhibitions, interviews, videos, spoken word performances, collages, sculptures, philosophy, cultural engineering, occultism and radical transgender concepts. A couple of descriptions are still valid after these 50 years of active creativity and provocation. P-Orridge is a romantic existentialist and a cultural engineer. Everything is both work as such and seed for cultural and behavioural change.
A film by Carl Abrahamsson, Sweden, 2016, 58 mins. Copyright © Carl Abrahamsson trapartfilm.com

'Ramones': The Story Behind a Debut Album From Punk Pioneers

Taipan Tiger Girls - Live @PBS FM's Drive Live (1/2/16)

Ollie Olsen (synths)
Mat Watson (drums)
Lisa MacKinney (guitar)
Playing this Sunday as Taipan Pisces Girls (2 synths 1 organ) @ Keele St Collingwood with The Primitive Calculators (4:00-7:00)

Girlz With Gunz #59399

...and Trump fans say Michelle cheapened the highest office!

Dull hipsters in broad daylight - why I’m done with today’s dance music

Ad Break: Ever wanted something more?

subject to availability

Under The Covers: On-U Sound

M.I.A. - Mia-Ola/Foreign Friend

Via

This story is just fucked beyond belief

Sunn O))) - Live @Max Watt's Melbourne (16/3/16)

(Click arrow to download)
Photographs from last night HERE
Good interview about their Australian tour and info I'd missed about their collaboration with Scott Walker HERE

Asian Dub Foundation - Blade Ragga

The Klansman (1974)

Disturbing drama about the Ku Klux Klan and race starring Lee Marvin,
Directed by Terence Young (Dr. No & From Russia With Love)
Based on the novel by William Bradford Huie

Recycled

Recycled
2013
Animation by Lei Lei + Thomas Sauvin
Sound Art by Zafka
An Introduction to the Animation:
The following images come from negatives salvaged from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, where they had been sent to be filtered for their silver nitrate content.Over the years French collector Thomas Sauvin built this archive of more than half a million 35mm negatives, depicting the capital and the life of her inhabitants over the last thirty years.
From 2011 to 2013, Chinese artist Lei Lei selected over 3000 photos to create the animation you are about to see, an almost epic portrait of anonymous humanity.
The film is the winner of Grand Prix shorts - non-narrative at the 2013 Holland International animation film festival, Nenarativní animace at the 12th Anifest International animation festival, Special Mentions by the jury members in 12th Countryside Animafest Cyprus. and Official Selected by Annecy International Animation Festival 2013.
raydesign.cn
Via

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

Black Cab - Uniforms

New single release 
They will be playing at Howler on May 6 with New War and Taipan Tiger Girls as support and then a six month break from live gigs

Naomi Wolf: Fascist America, in 10 easy steps (2010)

Coming very soon

LEGO version HERE

Trump campaign violence goes back a long way

'Hamilton' creator Lin-Manuel Miranda freestyles with Obama at White House

The U.S. Government Wants Apple To Turn Over The iOS Source Code So It Can Spy On Any iPhone

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (Trailer HBO 4/4)

An Open Letter to Donald Trump

Humans of New York

11 hrs · 

An Open Letter to Donald Trump:

Mr. Trump,

I try my hardest not to be political. I’ve refused to interview several of your fellow candidates. I didn’t want to risk any personal goodwill by appearing to take sides in a contentious election. I thought: ‘Maybe the timing is not right.’ But I realize now that there is no correct time to oppose violence and prejudice. The time is always now. Because along with millions of Americans, I’ve come to realize that opposing you is no longer a political decision. It is a moral one.

I’ve watched you retweet racist images. I’ve watched you retweet racist lies. I’ve watched you take 48 hours to disavow white supremacy. I’ve watched you joyfully encourage violence, and promise to ‘pay the legal fees’ of those who commit violence on your behalf. I’ve watched you advocate the use of torture and the murder of terrorists’ families. I’ve watched you gleefully tell stories of executing Muslims with bullets dipped in pig blood. I’ve watched you compare refugees to ‘snakes,’ and claim that ‘Islam hates us.’

I am a journalist, Mr. Trump. And over the last two years I have conducted extensive interviews with hundreds of Muslims, chosen at random, on the streets of Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan. I’ve also interviewed hundreds of Syrian and Iraqi refugees across seven different countries. And I can confirm— the hateful one is you.

Those of us who have been paying attention will not allow you to rebrand yourself. You are not a ‘unifier.’ You are not ‘presidential.’ You are not a ‘victim’ of the very anger that you’ve joyfully enflamed for months. You are a man who has encouraged prejudice and violence in the pursuit of personal power. And though your words will no doubt change over the next few months, you will always remain who you are.

Sincerely,
Brandon Stanton

Dropping the Political F-Bomb

...the promoter has the muscle and so it goes...

America's Agitator: Donald Trump Is the World's Most Dangerous Man

The Music Improvisation Company - Dragon Path

A really good article about the London improv scene and Derek Bailey in particular can be found here and here

In Trump We Trust

With friends like this

Andy Yeung: Amazing drone photos of Hong Kong

HERE

Scottish village in Italian Alps where residents wear kilts and play bagpipes

Austin residents not in tune with SXSW

Story 
...and despite Thor's best attempts it's still on

Woo Way Allstars - Brassey Steppa

Collaboration between Fritz Catlin (23 Skidoo) and Simon Charterton (The Higsons)
More tracks HERE

Someone Will Die

Can - Live @Rock En Stock (1973)

ORTF Studio, Paris 

Richard Hell on Ivan Julian's cancer diagnosois

"I’ve known Ivan since he was 21, in spring 1976 (40 years ago), when Bob Quine and Marc Bell and I were auditioning people to become Quine’s Voidoid co-guitarist. Bob was so impressed by Ivan's chops, he copped the slot on the spot. He’s only gotten better, year after year, as a player and all around monster of goodness, and that’s the truth. I love him. It’s horrible that he has to suffer some terribly painful, life-threatening illness, and have it ravage him financially as well. American barbarism. What’s left are his friends, admirers, and sympathizers."
https://www.gofundme.com/IvanJulianFund
Benefit concert NY May 4

Hell's kitchen: Was punk cooked up in New York?

Trump Concerned His Rallies Are Not Violent Enough

Brownshirt strategy

Such a dangerous game

The Future City: cruel or consoling Utopia?

Info & Download

Albert Ayler Quintet - The Berlin Concerts (November 1966)

A1 Alpha
A2 A.C.
A3 Omega
A4 Our Prayer
B1 Ghosts
B2 Bells
B3 Jesus
Bass: Bill Folwell
Drums: Beaver Harris
Tenor Saxophone: Albert Ayler
Trumpet: Donald Ayler
Violin: Michel Sampson