Sunday 22 July 2012

James Marshall Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix got into trouble with the law twice for riding in stolen cars. He was given a choice between spending two years in prison or joining the Army. Hendrix chose the latter and enlisted on May 31, 1961. After completing basic training at Fort Ord near Monterey in California, he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. His commanding officers and fellow soldiers considered him to be a subpar soldier: he slept while on duty, had little regard for regulations, required constant supervision, and showed no skill as a marksman. For these reasons, his commanding officers submitted a request that Hendrix be discharged from the military after he had served only one year.
@[In The Army]

Turbonegro - Hellfest Clisson, France 15/06/2012 (Full Concert)

All My Friends Are Dead
The Nihilist Army
You Give Me Worms
I Got A Knife
Mister Sister
Wasted Again
Turbonegro Must be Destroyed
Hello Darkness
Get It On
Back To Dungaree High
Age of Pamparius
Denim Demon
I Got Erection

Saturday 21 July 2012

On The Beach

Herbie Hancock takes his Fender Rhodes on a beach vacation
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Zakir Hussain - Nuits de Fourvière 13/07/2012 (Full concert)

Chuck D and Melle Mel on 'Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap'

If I could be bothered...

...I'd raise a glass to you all (especially the mag[isk]ians)

XXX

Friday 20 July 2012

First Listen: Purity Ring - Shrines

Purity Ring smashes together virtually every signifier of modern, up-to-the-second electronic pop: washy throbs, synths that sparkle and seethe, hints of hip-hop in the beats, a cooing voice that's all the more haunting for the way it's smeared with AutoTune. But don't mistake the Montreal duo's first full-length album, Shrines, for mere hype-bait. There are bright, charming, provocative songs in here, and they almost invariably find a way to meet in the middle between Bjork's otherworldly eclecticism and the sweet lilt of The Sundays.
Out July 24, Shrines plays around with that juxtaposition between scariness and sweetness, thanks largely to charismatic singer Megan James, who floats above Corin Roddick's whiz-bang arrangements while exuding a sort of girlish menace. "Cut open my sternum and pull my little ribs around you," she pleads in "Fineshrine," requiring all of 11 words to sum up her thorny bundle of sensibilities: cute but visceral, tender but unhealthily obsessed.
It's hard not to place too much emphasis on where Purity Ring fits along an ever more confusing and obtuse spectrum of subgenres and sub-subgenres: Is it chillwave? Witch house? Post-witch house? Is "witchwave" a thing yet? But, really, this is just sleek, shiny pop music; strip away a few advancements in technology and production, and Shrines would have sounded brilliant on college radio in 1991. Throughout their audacious debut, James and Roddick are smart enough to know that "timely" and "timeless" needn't be mutually exclusive.
Stephen Thompson @'npr'

Hear 'Shrines' In Its Entirety

The Green Dubmarine

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Here we go again...America! Fuxake! Wake the fuck up. Your gun laws are fugn MAD!!!

Four Tet (Official)

for all the people asking for a download link for the mix I did on the @diplo radio show: http://t.co/CBXDC5FF

Coming Soon: Paul Kelly - Stories of Me

Frida

Led Zeppelin's 'Houses of the Holy' Cover image story

Stefan Gates tells the story of how he became one of the children on the cover of Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy. And how this Record cover photo has dogged Stefan all his life
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'Clockwork Orange' depicted as 16th century Ottoman painting

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Mormons and money: the business of a religion

♪♫ The Orb ft. Lee Scratch Perry - Golden Clouds

The Master (Full Trailer)

After two teaser trailers introducing us separately to its two principal players—first we got a look at Joaquin Phoenix as the unstable World War II veteran Freddie Quell, and then we saw Philip Seymour Hoffman as the L. Ron Hubbard-like Lancaster Dodd—we finally have the full trailer that brings the two stars of the much-anticipated The Master together...
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Michael Gira, Alice Bag, Rick Jaffe (East LA 1979)

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Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb

Charles Hayward Live at The Albany 16/09/07

Batman and...er Nico

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HA!

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Ian Tomlinson death: Simon Harwood cleared of manslaughter

FYI in the U.K, since 1998 there has been 333 deaths in police custody and not one officer convicted.

Atari Teenage Riot - Festival de Dour, Belgium 15.07.12 (Full Concert)

Thursday 19 July 2012

Wonderful shot of the southern lights this week taken from the ISS by NASA astronaut Joe Acaba

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Asylum seekers and Australia: the evidence

Summit (1977)

Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene and Pauline Black
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Pentagon, CIA Sued for Lethal Drone Attacks on U.S. Citizens

Respect!

Truth

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♪♫ Fresh 4 - Wishing On A Star

On a bit of a Smith & Mighty kick here at Exile Towers. If anyone has Carlton's album that they could share can they can get in touch. Thanx!

Bonus:

Carlton - Do You Dream

Honesty

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Pedo-bear ruins Nestle's Facebook party

'Hang on, my love, and grow big and strong'

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It took nine months for Iggy Pop to reply to then-21-year-old Laurence's fan letter, but really the timing couldn't have been more perfect as on the morning his thoughtful note did arrive at her home in Paris, Laurence's family were being evicted by bailiffs. Laurence recalls that moment back in 1995:

By the time I finished I was in tears. Not only had Iggy Pop received the letter I had sent him nine months before, and I could have missed his if he'd sent it a day later, but he had read the whole 'fucking' 20 pages, including the bit about my Adidas dress (a semi-innocent allusion on my part), and all the rest, my description of being the child of an acrimonious divorce with the string of social workers, lawyers, greedy estate agents and bailiffs at the door, the fear, the anger, the frustration, the love.

Although understandably brief, Iggy's empathetic, handwritten letter addressed Laurence's problems with both grace and eloquence, and really can't be praised enough.
Transcript

dear laurence,

thankyou for your gorgeous and charming letter, you brighten up my dim life. i read the whole fucking thing, dear. of course, i'd love to see you in your black dress and your white socks too. but most of all i want to see you take a deep breath and do whatever you must to survive and find something to be that you can love. you're obviously a bright fucking chick, w/ a big heart too and i want to wish you a (belated) HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY 21st b'day and happy spirit. i was very miserable and fighting hard on my 21st b'day, too. people booed me on the stage, and i was staying in someone else's house and i was scared. it's been a long road since then, but pressure never ends in this life. 'perforation problems' by the way means to me also the holes that will always exist in any story we try to make of our lives. so hang on, my love, and grow big and strong and take your hits and keep going.

all my love to a really beautiful girl. that's you laurence.

iggy pop

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