MONA Bushfire Fundraiser Concert

MONA is pleased to announce a MONA Bushfire Fundraiser Concert to raise funds for the Australian Red Cross Tasmanian Bushfires 2013 Appeal - Monday 21 January.
http://www.mona.net.au/what%27s-on/events.aspx

THE ARTISTS:
Hoodoo Gurus
The Break
Kate Miller-Heidke
Evan Dando & Spencer P Jones
Neil Gaiman
Jherek Bischoff
Taiko Drum

Tickets $33, on sale from Tuesday 15 January, 12pm.
All profits from the concert are being provided to the Australian Red Cross Tasmanian Bushfires 2013 Appeal. Production costs are being minimised by the generous donation of time and services by dozens of companies and individuals.
MONA - Museum of Old and New Art and MONA FOMA staff are organising the event, suppliers are offering equipment and services including artist accommodation, volunteers are staffing the concert and artists are performing without fee. Mona has waived ticket booking fees and is giving all food and bar profits from the evening to the Red Cross.

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Delia Derbyshire Day 2013

Delia Derbyshire Day 2013 will be the first of its kind. It will be a day to celebrate and highlight the fascinating work of Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), the pioneering electronic music composer who worked for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and is most famous for realising the original Dr Who theme in 1963.

Delia Derbyshire Day will be taking place on Saturday 12 January 2013 at Manchester’s renowned music venue Band on the Wall (Best Entertainment Venue at Manchester Tourism Awards 2012). 2013 will be the Dr Who 50th Anniversary and therefore of Delia Derbyshire's iconic original theme, so this event will launch the celebrations.
Awarded funding from the Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation and Quebec Arts Council, this project involves three new music-based commissions, the Delia Derbyshire Day event and a Northern England mini-tour.
BUY TICKET FOR DELIA DERBYSHIRE DAY: bandonthewall.org/events/3762/
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Australia 2013

Tammy Holmes shelters her grandchildren Charlotte Walker, 2, Esther Walker, 4, Liam Walker, 9, Matilda, 11, and Caleb Walker, 6, under a jetty as a wildfire rages nearby in Dunalley, Australia, Jan. 4, 2013. This photo was taken by Tammy Holme's husband Tim Holmes.
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Irvine Welsh on ‘Scottish Independence and British Unity’

Therefore I’m advancing another proposition: political separation could promote the cultural unity that the UK state, in its current form, with its notions of ‘assumed Englishness’ is constantly undermining. Despite the shallow flag-waving social engineers in Government and sections of the media, who tried to turn it into a bread and circuses propaganda event, the Olympics were the best expression of inclusive Britishness we’ve had for decades. (The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, despite massive media hype and the pathetic efforts of a few unionist Labour councils, still amounted to an inconsequential joke in Scotland.) Danny Boyle, in a couple of hours, did more to assert democratic socialist values over neo-liberalism than the UK Labour Party has managed to do in almost forty years. But it was also nostalgic; it mirrored not just what many of us still aspire to, it showed us what we have to accept we’ve irredeemably lost. But I cheered just as ecstatically when Brad Wiggins crossed the line as when Chris Hoy did, and plenty other Scots I know did too. So post UK, why not, for example, just keep the British Olympic team?
If we rid ourselves of the political imperialist baggage of the UK state, new possibilities emerge. For example, it would become feasible for Ireland, as an established sovereign nation, to see itself as part of a shared geographical and cultural entity. This, in turn, brings potential opportunities for the continued development of the peace process in Northern Ireland. The idea of the political independence of England and Scotland leading to conflict, hatred and distrust is the mindset of opportunistic status-quo fearmongers and gloomy nationalist fantasists stuck in a Bannockburn-Culloden timewarp, and deeply insulting to the people of both countries. Swedes, Norwegians and Danes remain on amicable terms; they trade, co-operate and visit each other socially any time they like. They don’t need a pompous, blustering state called Scandinavia, informing them from Stockholm how wonderful they all are, but (kind of) only really meaning Sweden...

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Cathy Berberian

Catherine Anahid Berberian (July 4, 1925 – March 6, 1983) was an American soprano and composer. She interpreted contemporary avant-garde music composed, among others, by Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Sylvano Bussotti, Darius Milhaud, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and Igor Stravinsky. She also interpreted works by Claudio Monteverdi, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Kurt Weill, Philipp Zu Eulenburg, The Beatles, folk songs from Armenia, also by the musical analyst Komitas Vartabed, and her own compositions. Her best known work is Stripsody (1966), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds (onomatopoeia)...
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Quentin Tarantino: 'I'm shutting your butt down!'

Quentin Tarantino refuses to discuss any link between movie violence and real life violence during a heated interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy about his latest film Django Unchained

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Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris

Three Kurdish women activists have been found dead with bullet wounds to the neck and chest in the Kurdistan information centre in Paris.
One of the women found in the early hours of Thursday was said to be Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK).
Officials in Turkey are currently holding talks with the PKK's jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to persuade the group to disarm. The decades-long conflict between the Turkish state and the PKK has killed about 40,000 people since the 1980s.
Another victim of the Paris shootings, Fidan Dogan, was part of the Kurdistan National Congress, based in Brussels. The third was a young activist.
The bodies were discovered on the first floor of the building in Paris's 10th arrondissement just before 2am after one woman's partner, concerned he could not contact her, called police.
The French interior minister, Manuel Valls, was at the scene and described the killings as intolerable and unacceptable. He said French anti-terror police would help with the inquiry. French police sources told reporters that the crime scene suggested "an execution", but the circumstances and motive remain unclear.
"The only certainty for the moment is that this is a triple homicide," a French police spokesperson told TF1 news.
French media reported a crowd of between 100 and 200 Kurdish people gathered in front of the building shouting slogans in support of the PKK.
Angelique Chrisafis @'The Guardian'

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Michael Fassbender is...FRANK SIDEBOTTOM!

Fassbender, an actor firmly set on the path less travelled, is Frank, mysterious leader of an indie band that will be doing likewise in Jon ‘The Man Who Stare At Goats’ Ronson’s story. Domhnall Gleeson joins him and his crazed band member Maggie Gyllenhaal in a tour that, on the basis of this picture alone, looks like it will combine the very best of Almost Famous and a heavy dose of peyote.
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Angie misses another train

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The Clash: Lifetimes (New York 1980)

Yanks eh?
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Wilko Johnson diagnosed with terminal cancer

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Sunn O))) slowed down 800%

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William S. Burroughs & Alene Lee (1953)

Alene Lee (1931–1991) was an African-American member of the Beat generation in New York City whose romantic relationship with Jack Kerouac was the central theme in his novel The Subterraneans. Kerouac used the pseudonym Mardou Fox for Lee. Lee was also the model for the character of Irene May in Book of Dreams and Big Sur.
Photos: Allen Ginsberg
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CM von Hausswolff & Leslie Winer - I'll Be Mother

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CM von Hausswolff has just got himself into a spot of 'bother'

Protesters at the 'Zero Dark Thirty' Premiere in DC Weren't Very Subtle

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SBTRKT - Hold On/Migration (Live @ Shepherd's Bush Empire 5/10/12)

#FucktheNRA

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Landfill Harmonic (Teaser)

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David Bowie: The Story of Ziggy Stardust

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David Bowie: The Next Day. That album cover design

Why “Heroes”?
If you are going to subvert an album by David Bowie there are many to choose from but this is one of his most revered, it had to be an image that would really jar if it were subverted in some way and we thought “Heroes” worked best on all counts. Also the new album is very contemplative and the “Heroes” cover matched this mood. The song Where are we now? is a comparison between Berlin when the wall fell and Berlin today. Most people know of Bowie’s heritage in Berlin and we want people to think about the time when the original album was produced and now...

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Hear Some Cave Rock from Pacitan, Indonesia

In a small town in south east Java, a family determined to preserve the local cave's endangered cave "rock music." For more details, please visit www.mariabakkalapulo.com
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Australia is so hot they had to add new colors to the weather map

♪♫ Momus - Where Are We Now? (David Bowie cover)

Singers who came in from the cold

Frank Sinatra
When the Bobby Sox audience moved on Sinatra’s career went into swift decline. Re-emerged in the mid-50s with a new, sophisticated “swinging” style on In The Wee Small Hours. Now every out-of-ideas rocker makes a “swing” album.
Elvis Presley
They said “the King” was all washed up, starring in naff movies while the Beatles stole his crown. The 1968 “Comeback Special” TV show re-invented Elvis, 33, as a leather-clad rocker who had lost none of his sex appeal.
Marvin Gaye
After the 1973 triumph of "What’s Going On", Gaye became a troubled European tax exile, playing darts with locals an Ostend pub. His stunning return in 1982 with "Sexual Healing" is now the subject of a film starring Lenny Kravitz.
Kate Bush
Twelve years of silence ended when Bush emerged from a life of domestic bliss with Aerial, an ambitious double album mixing pop, classical and folk themes. Energised by the positive response, it took Bush just six years to produce its successor.
Morrissey
Languishing without a record deal for six years after a series of critical failures Morrissey’s 2004 "You Are The Quarry" album marked a surprise return to form, spawning four top ten singles and elevating the ex-Smiths singer to festival headliner status.
Leonard Cohen
Retreated to a Buddhist monastery in 1994 with little intention of performing again but embezzlement of his pension funds forced Godfather of Gloom out on tour and now is playing his finest shows, aged 78.

and then there was David Bowie

more info: David Bowie is back - but where has he been?

100 years ago THIS fugn arsehole was born!

Proclaiming love

True love

Happy Birthday Mr. Bowie

And thank you for the new single. From Quietus: Joyous news this morning as we tuned into Radio 4's Today programme only to find that David Bowie has surprise released a new track at 5am to celebrate his birthday, and has a new album in 2013. Oh my! With Bowie's recent health scares, we thought that this might never happen. The Next Day will be released on March 16th 2013. Now, not that we want to speculate, but is this a fourth part to the Berlin trilogy of albums? According to the artwork on iTunes, the artwork is the same as Heroes, but with a white square and the words 'the next day' superimposed on it. Then, just listen to the Tony Visconti-produced new track 'Where Are We Now?', with it's lyrics "had to get the train / from Potsdamer Platz" and the video (see above) that features footage of Berlin, and Bowie's face projected onto a shape, by long-time collaborator Tony Oursler. The song itself, well, it's proper Bowie, but with a really gorgeous swell, and at times heart-rending reflective tone to it. Brilliant stuff. My word. Go to the Bowie website here to listen. The Telegraph quotes a "spokesman" as saying the news came "from out of nowhere", adding "Throwing shadows and avoiding the industry treadmill is very David Bowie despite his extraordinary track record that includes album sales in excess of 130 million not to mention his massive contributions in the area of art, fashion, style, sexual exploration and social commentary."

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