Monday 14 March 2016

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

Sunday 13 March 2016

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

Albert Ayler Quartet with Don Cherry 'European Radio Station Recordings 1964' CD coming soon on Hat Hut

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The Breakfast Machine

Enter the world of shitty robots

In Bed with Chris Needham (1992)

Update

Snog - The Clockwork Man (Architect Remix)

The Music Critic in the Age of the Insta-Release

Avital Ronell: The Telephone Book - Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech

PDF
Via
Reading Ronell

Bladerunner Sketchbook

Well...are we?

Internet access in jails

According to Court, BDSM Needs “History” to Be a Protected Right. Is 490 B.C. Old Enough?

A Psychiatrist Who Survived The Holocaust Explains Why Meaningfulness Matters More Than Happiness

Students occupying university building in Tbilisi

bell hooks: "I can no longer be a Hillary Clinton supporter!"

Saturday 12 March 2016

Thurston Moore on punk (Artsnight BBC 11/3/16)

Worth watching for Thurston hearing himself 'sing' with X-Ray Spex alone

Shane Levene & Pete Doherty: SICK (L'Olympia, Paris 9/3/16)

SICK
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Friday 11 March 2016

The iMom

Written and Directed by Ariel Martin
The iMom will change your life! Well, at least that’s what the ads claim. But when a mother leaves her kids under the supervision of the family’s iMom, an unexpected connection is formed
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Louise Brooks in The Canary Murder Case (1929).

Gary Clail On-U Sound System Live (Pay It All Back 1991/92)

Featuring Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish, Style Scott, Bim Sherman and with Adrian Sherwood in the control tower. Live at The Marquee Club 26/04/91 taped from BBC Radio 1, "Crisis, What Crisis" VHS 1992, Viva Eight NME CD in aid of the Spastics Society (Town & Country Club, September 1992) and "Pay It All Back Live" Alfa CD (Town & Country Club, April 1991)