Happy New Year from SpinningPlatters. Please go support a local live music venue or seven... Thursday, December 27th The Growlers, Sam Flax, The Abigails at The Fillmore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =HY696M0eC3A Friday, December 28th & Saturday, December 29th X, Hey Jerusalem at Slim's Hey Jerusalem are a band from Austin, TX that do a creepy blend of goth [...]

A Monday without work is like a Christmas without the fighting so to celebrate we've decided to clear the decks of our in-transit basket – a purgatory of sorts for songs that are too good to guillotine but missing a vital ingredient to ensure a post of their own. Chances are you'll find something lip-smacking enough to see you through the incessant march towards a crueller Tuesday than normal. KD Baby Eagle And The Proud Mothers - Brave Women More Info: Baby Eagle [...]
CO :: MúSICA Data: 21 Out 2012 Género: Outros Distrito: Lisboa Cidade: Lisboa Subversor de situações e repórter do real estrambótico, o colectivo norte-americano Negativland é uma parte fundamental da música experimental feita nas últimas três décadas. Original Website: CO :: MúSICA

André Gomes Os experimentalistas norte-americanos Negativland regressam a Portugal - onde estiveram em 2008 para dois concertos - no âmbito do festival Future Places, Festival de Media Digitais e Cultura Locais, que acontece no Porto entre os dias 17 e 20 de Outubro. Os Negativland são conhecidos pelo seu activismo em redor dos direitos de autor, e pelas suas colagens sonoras, já para não falar no famoso caso relacionado com os U2 (escrevam "Negativland U2 incident" no youtube e já podem ver). Ainda não existem detalhes de pormenor acerca do regresso dos [...]
18 anos. Dezoito anos. Se fosse gente, a ZDB chegaria no mês de outubro à idade com que já poderia conduzir, comprar tabaco legalmente, consumir álcool sem que lhe apareça uma reportagem da televisão pela frente, dedicar-se ao sexo livre com outros da sua idade. 18 anos pedem uma festa em grande para os lados da rua da Barroca. No que diz apenas respeito à música, o Thurston Moore e os
Here's your big Thursday: ► Best Coast and NO close out the Twilight Summer Series with a free show at the Santa Monica Pier. ► Legendary sound collagists Negativland hold forth at the Echoplex — the Bay Area provocateurs have a show titled "My Favorite Things" opening Friday at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Feliz. ► Something a little special at the Viva Cantina in Burbank: Rosie Flores will do a show performing songs from the final album by rockabilly legend Janis [...]

[We're late with our post, due to the holiday weekend and your humble editor's FYF Fest hangover ...] Incoming: Best Coast, Jillinda Palmer, the Vibrators, Negativland, B.B. King, the Heavy, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Big Black Delta, Dead Meadow, Linkin Park, Mary J. Blige, Hot Chip, Dave Matthews Band, the Fresh & Onlys Above: The Heavy are back with another album of dirty funk ’n’ soul. It's titled "The Glorious Dead," and dynamo frontman Kelvin Swaby brings his U.K. [...]
Graham Kerr was a fixture of lunchtime television when I was little. His tv persona was the Galloping Gourmet, not because he had anything to do with horses, but for the distinctive way he lifted his heels as he ran around the studio. He was amiable in a naff and ineffective way, and comfortably posh. How pioneering copyright warriors Negativland got hold of Kerr's recipe for perfect scrambled eggs I don't know. But here it is, narrated by the man himself, while the band punctuate it with dramatic musical sound effects. Horribly inappropriate musical [...]

I'm watching an interesting documentary about remix culture that has interviews with Greg Gillis of Girl Talk (pictured), Cory Doctorow, Negativland and Lawrence Lessig. It's on Hulu, which I think is progressive of them, but I'm sure you can get it other places as well.

GiTAr From: Califoregon, United States Avant wierdo cut up merchants GiTAr release their new album 'Stuffed' today on Seelan Records, the label owned by legendary culture-jammers Negativland. GiTAr members Ellipse Elkshow and I Cut People (not the names on their birth certificates) were raised in Evansville, Indiana, home to major polluters, factories, cancer statistics, pharmaceutical manufacturing and a test town for new products cooked up by various fast food giants. [...]

In the great tradition of "Facts" (via Chucky Norris, Mr. T, and other adored celebs I suppose), Ian at Dystopian Fuchsia rattled off an impressively long and hilarious list of Bono facts this morning. I had to share. I added "Bono once fell off the stage because he got too close to The Edge," but that's kinda corny. His is better, and acts as a great first post for 2010. LOLacaust... Bono was bitten by a radioactive spider, and learned a valuable lesson when his Uncle Bon was killed. Bono has copyrighted the word [...]
From Perth, Australia music-movie-masher. Pogo ( space | tube | last w/ free mp3s | blog) Expialidocious and while we're gettin' all Disney on your derriere: Negativland - No Business - "Favorite Things" (1:59 mp3): [See post to listen to audio] Dada - Puzzle - "Dizz Knee Land " (4:07 mp3): [See post to listen to audio] via some velvet blog.
From Fatboy Slim's 1996 Better Living Through Chemistry, "Michael Jackson" (5:49 mp3): [See post to listen to audio] which samples the samples in the 1987 Negativland track on Escape from Noise, "Michael Jackson" (2:08 mp3): [See post to listen to audio]

- Have you heard the sampler Matador dropped of the new Sonic Youth ? It sounds like we have some reason to get excited. Take a listen: The Eternal Montage (matador mp3) - Looks like mp3+crazyphotoblawg Fuck You On Friday has rebranded itself "--" or molasuperpoco . Check out their leak of the new PJ Harvey & John Parish track, Black Hearted Love... here . - It's punk rock meets Steve Reich over @ Cardboard Records . Listen to an excerpt of [...]

"...Negativland's next project was the infamous U2 EP, with samples from American Top 40 host Casey Kasem. In 1991, Negativland released a single with the title "U23 displayed in very large type on the front of the packaging, and "Negativland" in a smaller typeface. An image of the Lockheed U-2 spy plane was also on the single cover. The songs within were parodies of the group U2's well-known 1987 song, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", including kazoos and extensive sampling of the original song. The song "The Letter U And The Numeral 23 [...]

Negativland: Car Bomb Negativland: Over the Hiccups [ purchase ] Long-standing cultural remixers and early anti-copyright activists Negativland don't make songs or albums so much as they create collections of sonic collage experiments, many of which call to particular genre approaches even as they challenge our sense of what a song is. Here's two of my favorite such moments: a hilarious and tender a capella recording of a small child with hiccups singing [...]

Seeking fans of both Justin Timberlake and Merzbow , Poptastic is “just plain wrong.” Seeland Records is pleased to present The Teen-Pop-Noise Virus , one of the most absurd albums of all-time by Poptastic . The music, like the band itself, was spawned from the warped minds of experimental producers Chris Fitzpatrick and Thomas Dimuzio . At the core of their debut release are twelve intricately mangled songs, but in the spaces between, there is much more. Fitzpatrick assembled [...]

Seeking fans of both Justin Timberlake and Merzbow , Poptastic is “just plain wrong.” Seeland Records is pleased to present The Teen-Pop-Noise Virus , one of the most absurd albums of all-time by Poptastic . The music, like the band itself, was spawned from the warped minds of experimental producers Chris Fitzpatrick and Thomas Dimuzio . At the core of their debut release are twelve intricately mangled songs, but in the spaces between, there is much more. Fitzpatrick assembled [...]
DJ RevoLucian took Christian Bale's psychotic freak-out and turned it into the web smash. And while he's not the first person to mix spoken word clips with music, he's certainly not the last. In fact, I think we have a new genre of music.
Today we’ll take a listen to songs that focus on the vocals. Selections include examples of a cappella (“without instrumental accompaniment”) and scat (“improvised nonsense syllables are substituted for the words of a song”) styles. “Helter Skelter” by The Bobs From the album The Bobs Written by Lennon/McCartney, 1983 “Helter Skelter” lyrics I know that in our first post I said I couldn’t understand why anyone would listen to someone covering The Beatles instead of listening [...]