Saturday 24 December 2016

Make America Hate Again

Friday 23 December 2016

Frank Murray (Pogues and Thin Lizzy manager) R.I.P.

Why Aren't the New York Dolls in the Rock Hall of Fame?

Thursday 22 December 2016

Wilco - Spiders (Kidsmoke) (TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, NL. 09/11/16)

The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does

Robyn Hitchcock - Human Music (The Tote Melbourne 18/12/16)

Photo: Greg Hughes
From 'Robyn Hitchcock plays The Soft Boys' with Davey Lane guitar, Jake Robertson bass and Alex McFarlane drums.
Full set HERE

The past, present, and future of Barrett Brown

Evgeny Morozov: What is technological sovereignty? (Zündfunk Netzkongress 2016)

J. G. Ballard’s 'High-Rise': When We Feared Skyscraper Living

Jesse Rae's christmas card to the greedy and corrupt of the world

Wednesday 21 December 2016

Gulzada Ryskulova - Aikol Manas

Have a great Gravy Day

Tuesday 20 December 2016

How Republics End

Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift - Just Like A Woman (Northcote Social Club Melbourne 18/12/16)

Robyn Hitchcock
Northcote Social Club,
Northcote (Melbourne), Australia
2016-12-18
I Pray When I'm Drunk
Fifty Two Stations
My Wife And My Dead Wife
When I Was Dead
The Devil's Coachman
One Long Pair of Eyes
Madonna Of The Wasps
Nietzsche's Way *w/Emma Swift
Love Is A Drag *w/ Emma Swift
Life Is Change *w/ Emma Swift
Glass Hotel *w/ Emma Swift
Victorian Squid
Raymond Chandler Evening
I Often Dream Of Trains
Be Still
Airscape
Mad Shelley's Letterbox
Uncorrected Personality Traits w/ Charles Jenkins and Chris Pickering
(Wheelbarrow Song ?)
Terrapin (Syd Barrett)
Just Like A Woman (Bob Dylan) *w/ Emma Swift
(Recorded on hand held Tascam DR-40)
Download full set
HERE
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Robyn Hitchcock and Emma Swift - Love Is A Drag (Live on KEXP)

Here's Emma Swift performing with Chris Pickering on guitar from Sunday including her wonderful version of Rowland S. Howard's 'Shivers'. Unfortunately due to circumstances I missed most of her set but you can download what I did capture below or here

Blade Runner 2049 Announcement

The new patriotism

HA!

Agency:
So we're thinking either Pringle Bells, Kris Pringle, or Pringles all the Way?

Client:
Nah I've got a better idea.

Client: pic.twitter.com/hF7D0TizZF
— Zach Mander (@zachmander) December 18, 2016

Monday 19 December 2016

Australia’s Pirate Site Blockade Boosts Demand For VPNs

Sunday 18 December 2016

The Voices of Paul Bowles

Tellus #23 - Paul Bowles
Tellus release curated by Claudia Gould and Stephen Frailey
Released 1989
Till the age of 40, Paul Bowles (1910-1999) was a composer and music critic, composing for Broadway musicals, Hollywood movie scores, incidental music for ballet. He once aknowledged to be a composer of ‘hotel music’, though his serious music calls to mind that of Copland, Virgil Thomson, Francis Poulenc or Satie. It is actually when he get tired of writing easy music that he turned to writing literature.
Curated by Claudia Gould and Stephen Frailey, ‘The Voices of Paul Bowles’ is an audio portrait combining some of the composer’s music with readings from his own texts, morrocan traditional music and location recordings from Tangier and Morroco where he lived from 1947. The most striking device is the handsome and warm voice of Bowles reading through his writings. Also notable are the lively field recordings of folk local music Bowles made himself in 1959 (tracks #01, 03, 06 & 09). The simoon (my conjecture) heard at the end of ‘The Garden’, track #08, is a short but evocative recording of a North Africa typical wind. Bowles own compositions are exquisite vignettes full of humour and wit.
A microcosm in itself, a day in the life of Paul Bowles, the tape starts with the muezzin’s morning call to prayer and ends with dogs barking at sunset, an amazing barking chorale recorded amid the rising desert wind. A poignant conclusion to an utterly beautiful tape
Info/Download
Via

Die Antwoord - Fat Faded Fuckface (NSFW)

Melbourne Drone Orchestra - Live @ Memo Music Hall St. Kilda Melbourne (17/12/16)

Daniel Tucceri

Photos above by TimN
Photos by Barry C. Douglas

Photo by Gelareh Pour

(Recorded by TimN on hand held Tascam DR40)
Download Zippyshare / Uploaded
NB:
Zippyshare is giving a malicious file warning with some browsers. I can assure you that this file only contains a recording of yesterday's gig.
My thanks also to Daniel for buying my spare Trump tee which meant I had the money to get a ticket

Melbourne Drone Orchestra's mighty wall of sound passes pain threshold

Friday 16 December 2016

Emma Swift - Shivers

Love this version of Rowland S. Howard's classic. I will be catching her with Robyn Hitchcock at the Nortchcote Social on Sunday arvo

Blocking access to illegal file-share websites won’t stop illegal downloading

23.disturbance.ninja

Thursday 15 December 2016

Patti Smith: How Does It Feel

How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler

VPN For Torrenting: The Ultimate VPN Torrent Guide for Australia

I will be selling some records, CD's and books here on Saturday in Fitzroy Melbourne

Wednesday 14 December 2016

A Brief History of U.S. Intervention in Foreign Elections

The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S

It just gets worse and worse...

Seriously? Read this and weep
Via

Aleppo’s Final Goodbyes

SUNN O))) - 青木ヶ原 Aokigahara/樹海 Jukai (Free Download)

SUNN O))) Hail our great fans.
As the Solstice season approaches, Sunn O))) thank all of you for your great support throughout 2016.
We offer you an exclusive track for you to download for free (and of course stream), until the end of 2016.
'青木ヶ原 // 樹海' (aka Aokigahara // Jukai) was released on a limited edition white flexi 7" along with some copies of SUNN O)))'s "KANNON" (2015) album. It features Attila Csihar, The Lord, SOMA, Tad, Randall Dunn, Brad Mowen
Chainsaws and motorcycles through Ampeg stacks.

Get it
HERE
Additionally, you can take 35% off everything discount code from our entire catalogue on Bandcamp, until the end of 2016.
Just type: solstice2016 into the discount code field at checkout.
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