Nick Cave on the Pop Group

On-U Sound All Stars featuring Mark Stewart - Hysteria (Ramsgate Music Hall 18/1114)

This one-off show had a never to be repeated line up!
Bass: Doug Wimbish (Living Colour / Sugarhill Gang / Tackhead)
Vocals: Mark Stewart (The Pop Group/Maffia)
Guitar: Skip McDonald (Little Axe / Sugarhill Gang / Tackhead)
Drums: Perry Melius (Tricky / African Headcharge / Billy Ocean)
Live Dub mix: Adrian Sherwood (On-U-Sound Master-mind)

United States of Audio - Play It All Back: A Tribute To Tack>>Head

A tribute to the world's most underrated pioneers of modern electronic music!
Starting as the house band at Sugar Hill records, Keith LeBlanc, Doug Wimbish and Skip McDonald hooked up with Adrian Sherwood to form Tackhead (aka Fats Comet). Working together with Mark Stewart (as Maffia) and Gary Clail (as Tackhead Sound System) they produced some of the most exhilarating, funky and down-right experimental electronic music of the 1980s. This set charts their career from 1984-1989, mixing in rare dub mixes, alternate versions and interviews with the band members themselves. It's time they got their dues; it's time to Play It All Back: "Tackhead in the Area!"
Tracklisting:
1. Double Dee & Steinski - The Sugar Hill Suite (Castle Music)
2. Tackhead - Body to Burn (World Records)
3. Tackhead- What's My Mission Now - (On-U Sound)
4. Tackhead - Now What? (On-U Sound)
5. Tackhead - Mind at the End of the Tether (12" version) (On-U Sound)
6. Tackhead - Mind at the End of the Tether (LP Version) (Red Rhino)
7. Keith LeBlanc - I'll Come up with Something (World Records)
8. Tackhead - Ticking Time Bomb (World Records)
9. Tackhead - Ticking Time Bomb (12" version) (World Records)
10. Keith LeBlanc - Move (World Records)
11. Tackhead - King of the Beat (On-U Sound)
12. Tackhead - King of the Beat (Live) (Plus Au Sud)
13. Fats Comet & The Big Sound - Bop Bop (World Records)
14. Fats Comet & The Big Sound - Zoop Zoop (World Records)
15. Mark Stewart - As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade (Mute)
16. Keith LeBlanc - No Sell Out (Tommy Boy)
17. Fats Comet - Deejay's Dream (World Records)
18. Fats Comet - Deejay's Program (World Records)
19. Fats Comet - Eat The Beat (World Records)
20. Mark Stewart- Hypnotized (Remix) (Mute)
21. Keith LeBlanc - Heaven on Earth - (World Records)
22. Keith Leblanc - Tack Unit (Extended Interference) (Collision)
23. Keith LeBlanc - Major Malfunction (World Records)
24. Tackhead / Gary Clail- Life and Dreams (World Records)
25. Tackhead - Man in a Suitcase (Red Rhino)
26. Tackhead / Gary Clail - Reality (World Records)
27. Tackhead - Get This (Red Rhino)
28. Gary Clail - Half Cut For Confidence (World Records)
29. Gary Clail- Half a Gram a Shout (World Records)
30. Keith LeBlanc - Mechanical Movements (Yellow Ltd)
31. Keith LeBlanc - Technology Works Dub (World Records)
32. Keith LeBlanc - Technology Works (Collision)
33. Fats Comet- O.K. Bye (World Records)
34. Fats Comet - Rockchester (World Records)
35. Fats Comet - Dub Storm (World Records)
36. Fats Comet- Stormy Weather (World Records)
37. Gary Clail - Hard Left (instrumental) (World Records)
38. Gary Clail - Hard Left (Red Rhino)
39. Keith LeBlanc - You Drummers Listen Good (World Records)
40. Doug Wimbish - Freak Out (World Records)
41. Doug Wimbish - Don't Forget That Beat (World Records)
42. Doug Wimbish - Don't Forget That Beat (Alternate Mix) (Dunk Yer Funk Records)
43. Doug Wimbish - Don't Forget That Beat (Alternate Dub) (Dunk Yer Funk Records)
44. Doug Wimbish - Don't Forget That Beat (Dub Mix) (Dunk Yer Funk Records)
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Unfortunately, we have now sufficient experience of terrorist incidents to formulate a simple rule: namely, almost everything said in the first few days after the event will later prove wrong

Young Edward Hopper sent this holiday card to his mother Elizabeth Griffiths Smith

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Jeff Sparrow: The Logic of Torture

Social media teacher at Sydney Uni learns very quickly how NOT to use social media after this tweet

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Euros Childs - EILAAIG (Free Download)

This and other albums available to download at The National Elf Library

Judy Henske - High Flying Bird (Hootenanny 1963)

"If Linda Ronstadt's a torch singer, Henske's a flame thrower." - Andrew Vachss (Blue Belle)
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Bob Dylan and 1 Man

Bob Dylan does a one man concert in Philadelphia for a Swedish TV experiment. "From Experiments Alone - Episode 6 - Bob Dylan"
"Seeing his biggest idol live is in fact often a fantastic experience. But how is it to do it all alone, without anyone else in the audience? Fredrik Wikingsson knows. On November 22 2014 played Bob Dylan in Philadelphia, only for him."

Forever With Us

Forever with you...
"He touched so many..." What? Where?

Cock Magic

WHAT THE FUCK?

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The General’s Report

How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties

NYC

Robert Forster: What's the difference between a rock star and a pop star?

Locked in limbo: Australia's forgotten asylum seeker babies

Lawdamercy!

When asked if he was worried that the CIA would target him like they reportedly did John Lennon, Corgan responded that instead, now they “digitally assassinate you,” a point he would later refer back to—also decrying the “lack of political music right now compared to the 1960s.”
The two touched on all sorts of subjects, from Ferguson and the protests surrounding them, to 9/11, to chem trails, to the Illuminati

Mr and Mrs Gira with JG Thirlwell after Swans show at Warsaw, Brooklyn

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Mogwai - Teenage Exorcists

Project Goliath: Inside Hollywood's secret war against Google

Bowi/Low (1977)

Australians May Get Their Own SOPA

Holy shit!

Rachel Bentley's 'Cutback'

Filmed between 2011 and 2014 in Sydney, Melbourne, Berlin and New York 'Cutback' includes interviews with Australian artists discussing their work, motivations and frustrations.
More interviews and material
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I went to see this great film last night at the world premiere (Sydney doesn't count.) 
My thanks to Rachel and the Invurt crew for the invite

Cutback

Filmed between 2011 and 2014, the CUTBACK documentary project features interviews with more than 40 Australian artists as they discuss their addiction - which is street art and graffiti. Artists discuss their approach to their work, artistic motivations, and frustrations.
CUTBACK is a multi-platform web and feature documentary produced by Rachel Bentley, exploring street art and graffiti in the urban environment
Off to check this out...

Silver X & Allstars - Let's Stand Together

Silver X is a 26-year-old South Sudanese musician who wrote the song "Let's Stand Together." He was displaced from his home in Torrit, South Sudan with his family in 2000. Four years ago he returned to his birthplace from a refugee camp in Uganda to launch his music career and help jumpstart South Sudan's burgeoning music industry

An Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists

Seconded

"Worse still is the whole TED talks phenomenon, which offers the intellectual equivalent of diets in which someone can lose 10 pounds in two weeks without giving up ice cream sundaes or pizza. In just 18 minutes, a person can be exposed to breathlessly earnest genius -- a slickly marketed brand of chicken nuggets for the brain. The talks enable non-scientists and non-technologists to feel smart, but that is not the same as actually being smart or, alternatively, feeling dumb in the way that hard ideas sometimes make you feel -- and should -- when you first encounter them."

- David Rothkopf

Oh the hypocrisy of Abbott

“Oh the irony of Tony Abbott playing a gender card. He spent three years criticising Julia Gillard for speaking about women’s issues and the treatment of women, condemning her for talking about the treatment of women, and then he plays the gender card. The longer you stay in and around politics the less you’re surprised about the way the wheel turns.” - Craig Emerson 

Would he have attacked Julia Gillard if her name was spelled J-U-L-I-A-N?

What it was like to be an asylum seeker looking for protection in Australia in 2014

Hmmm...

Factory Floor last night...no live vocals, no live guitar and no live drums. Wish I'd known before shelling out 40 bucks

Why Robert Wyatt’s wife Alfie is his most important collaborator

Factory Floor - Live on KEXP (April 2014)

Heading off to see this mob tonight in Melbourne

An Oral History of ‘Boogie Nights’

Val Denham: Jhonn Balance (2005)

The Art of John Balance Collected - Bright Lights and Cats With No Mouths

Peter Christopherson - L'Etrange Festival: Soundtracking Jarman's The Art of Mirrors (April 13, 2004)

New improved source coming soon

Shane Levene discusses heroin addiction on Sky News

Shane truly is one of the most powerful of writers

Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) - Africa In Your Earbuds #53 Mix

The music on this mix comes from compilation CDs from market stalls in Marrakech, and from street musicians selling their own CDs, as well as my own field recordings of dawn and dusk prayer sounds and general Medina music/noise. Some of the music comes from the Gnawa tradition, and the low lute-like instrument you hear on some of the recordings is the Sintir or Guembri (or Gimbri or even Hejhouj), a three stringed skin-covered bassy instrument. My favourite music collected here is the opening piece (after my short field recording ends) which is performed by an unnamed (on his CD-R) musician who was playing whilst I walked down a narrow backstreet one evening on a recent visit. Despite no name, song or title information being printed on his CD-Rs he had for sale, I recently found this footage of him: and this also, where he performs the same music but in a different key. What do you think?
I also very much like the second piece, known as Maquamat, attributed to Musique Douce (which may just be the CD name), for it’s combination of soft keyboard sounds and drum machine (all in the same keyboard I imagine) along with the Oud, another lute instrument. I hope you enjoy this mix. Sorry there is not much in the way of information about performers or song names, dates of recording etc
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Spoek Mathambo - Cava The Combo 1 Mix

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Bizz Atv – Negative People(DJ Spoko Remix)
Fantasma – Sefty Belt ft. JOSIAHWISE IS THE SERPENTWITHFEET
DJ Spoko – I Remember ft. G Dog
DJ Spoko – Chitahuri Dance
DJ Mujava – Township Funk
Tribal Warriors – Lerato ft. Noeli
Tribal Warriors – In The Heart Of The Nite
DJ Spoko X Lafawndah – I Lost My Fear
DJ Spoko X Massacooramaan – Feathers of the Phoenix
Dubbel Dutch x DJ Spoko – Sweat of the Dragon
Aero Manyelo x DJ Spoko – Rapoka