No Fun Fest 2009. May 15,16,17 at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn Tickets go on sale February 15. 3 day pass 60$, Friday 20$,Saturday 25$,Sunday 20$. FRIDAY 15 at 7pm Bastard Noise Thrones Grey Wolves Xeno and Oaklander Carlos Giffoni Chris Corsano [...]
Congrats to Raglani (who is not known as Ghost Ice, nor known as anyone else but himself), who is playing the 2009 version of the No Fun Fest in Brooklyn. The three-day event, which takes place from M... Continue reading "Raglani to Play at the 2009 No Fun Fest in Brooklyn" >
Tracklist: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth (Dutch for "Other Sides Of Sonic Youth") is a recording of live collaboration between SY, Merzbow and saxophonist Matts Gustafsson, which was originally performed in 2005 at Roskilde Festival. It is the 8th record in an ongoing SYR series and aside from SY themselves (Thurston Moore, [...]
Legendary House Of Audio Misanthropy - bio of Thomas Dimuzio, RRRecords artist Based in Lowell, Massachussetts, RRRecords is both a label and a record store run by Ron Lessard (who also records under the name Emil Beaulieau). Genre-wise, the label release anything from punk/political records to works by Japanese noise artists, such as Masonna, Merzbow and [...]
Check out some of the new releases that came out recently, according to Brainwashed.com website: Richard Pinhas / Merzbow - Keio Line (Cuneiform) Double CD collaboration between French King Crimson-influenced musician and noise guru Merzbow (Masami Akita). According to Brainwashed, this CD resembles the earlier collaboration between Merzbow and Christopher Heemann (H.N.A.S., Mirror) with sounds of processed [...]
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"Scylla & Charybdis": This new release by Christoph de Babalon is dedicated to two unfortunate girls from Greek mythology. Once beautiful nymphs, both were jinxed to live their life as monsters. scylla-charybdis-radio-edit-sn ippet-1 scylla-charybdis-radio-edit-sn ippet-2 To describe his melancholic viewpoint of their fate , he chose the long forgotten romantic art of the Symphonic Poem. Influenced by works such as Arnold Schönberg's "Veklärte Nacht", Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Isle Of The Dead" and Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra", Christoph de Babalon transfers this technique into the present [...]
"Scylla & Charybdis": This new release by Christoph de Babalon is dedicated to two unfortunate girls from Greek mythology. Once beautiful nymphs, both were jinxed to live their life as monsters. scylla-charybdis-radio-edit-sn ippet-1 scylla-charybdis-radio-edit-sn ippet-2 To describe his melancholic viewpoint of their fate , he chose the long forgotten romantic art of the Symphonic Poem. Influenced by works such as Arnold Schönberg's "Veklärte Nacht", Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Isle Of The Dead" and Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra", Christoph de Babalon transfers this technique into the present [...]
"Scylla & Charybdis": This new release by Christoph de Babalon is dedicated to two unfortunate girls from Greek mythology. Once beautiful nymphs, both were jinxed to live their life as monsters. scylla-charybdis-radio-edit-sn ippet-1 scylla-charybdis-radio-edit-sn ippet-2 To describe his melancholic viewpoint of their fate , he chose the long forgotten romantic art of the Symphonic Poem. Influenced by works such as Arnold Schönberg's "Veklärte Nacht", Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Isle Of The Dead" and Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra", Christoph de Babalon transfers this technique into the present [...]
Good Sunday, all. Great Sunday, if you've also read this article about bacon-flavored vodka ! More bars should take this recipe and put it to use. Hell, more people I know should put this recipe to use. That way when I come over and someone says, "sorry brah, all I've got is vodka," I won't be so quick to call the person a fucking pussy and walk out of their house. Can't you think of anybody but yourself? Christ, I just wanted to unwind with a little drink after work but you're telling me I can't have a bacon-enriched [...]
A lighter release week, but still a few goodies. The new Dragonforce record with the awesome cover is out. B.B. King proves he's still got it with some new material at the young age of 82. Delta Spirit , a personal California favorite of mine, is what I'm looking forward to. And if you're a Johnny Cash collector, the new 2-disc collection of material he did with George Jones should do you good. :: Alias , Resurgam (Anticon) :: [...]
I ventured West last week to my first Supersonic Festival , specialising in alternative and experimental music, organised by the lovely people at Capsule . "Festival of the Year", "fits more great music into a day and a bit than ye Avalon fields of Glastonbury manage in the average decade" and "More cake than any man can handle*" say the press blurbs about previous years so expectations were high as we ventured into the cobbled streets of the Custard Factory on a slightly chilly Friday night. After refuelling at the bar, we wander [...]
I ventured West to Birmingham last week to my first Supersonic Festival , specialising in alternative and experimental music, organised by the lovely people at Capsule . "Festival of the Year", "fits more great music into a day and a bit than ye Avalon fields of Glastonbury manage in the average decade" and "More cake than any man can handle*" say the press blurbs about previous years so expectations were high as we ventured into the cobbled streets of the Custard Factory on a slightly chilly Friday night. After refuelling at the bar, [...]
the damp cloy of too much whateveritiwas spreads so-un-sun-like across the murky puddle of morning. it seems i've been misled. i woke in your dress with a gun to my head. the grim realisation that i have no black or gay friends. i'm struggling for names, seeing shapes when you talk. i don't need a [...]
Why do I love Merzbow's music? Total, uncompromising sensory envelopment. The sheer aural bombardment and crafty sonic layering of Masami Akita's finest recordings seek and destroy in the darkest corners of my psyche, wiping clean my floating anxieties and pettiest earthbound concerns. There's simply no room left for bad thoughts. While many a listener is sure to find this music to be one long bad thought , I (and I suspect a great many others*) find sanctuary in the bleeps, crashes, blasts and buzzes—the explosion of sound that is [...]
Masami Akita (aka Merzbow ) is one of my heroes. Not only is he one of the innovators of noise-as-music, with an incredible range of stylistic applications in his repertoire, he also shames most creative artists in terms of sheer productivity. The amount of Merzbow/Masami Akita solo releases and collaborations on LP, 7" vinyl, cassette tape and CD is absolutely staggering, approximately 400 since 1980; that's an average of 14 releases per year, making him something like the Fassbinder of Noise. The thing about his catalog, at least from this fan's perspective, is that so much [...]
Perhaps the imagination is on the verge of recovering its rights. If the depths of our minds conceal strange forces capable of augmenting or conquering those on the surface, it is in our greatest interest to capture them; first to capture them and later to submit them, should the occasion arise, to the control of reason. The analysts themselves can only gain by this. But it is im- portant to note that there is no method fixed a priori for the execution of this enterprise, that until the new order it can [...]
I've got an idea for a contest. Sure, you won't win anything tangible, really, but I'm hoping you can at least feel about yourself for a few minutes. Here's the idea: I need to decorate the walls of my new room, but I'm too lazy to go buy anything, because I think posters and art and stuff always looks stupid. This isn't a dorm room, after all. This is a real room. It demands a real attention to detail. And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay out of my own pocket to make that happen. I have a [...]
I have the distinct feeling that I'm coming down with a cold. This in spite of last night being one of the laziest nights in recent memory. Note to self: No more over-sized, greasy meals on weekends. It ruins one's ability to be social. In any event, Pray for my continued good health. RULES for uninitiated noobs : With 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link [...]
With the advent of the critical tenets of hypersolipsism, the Free York cinema scene has become a bore, one unparalleled since the height of glam-fascism 30 years ago with it’s strict requirements of the socialist-whore-realist framework. At first glance this return to the slow trainwreck filmmaking ethos of unmediated organic rot which has been sweeping the 4 coasts and post-fire South for the last several months seemed fresh, or at least a fresh regurgitation. But by now the discerning flesh and post-human art communities have discovered it’s crude core to be nothing more than a mute inversion of the principles [...]
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