Today is the day that everyone starts going apeshit over archery, as the movie Hunger Games releases here in the US. Orlando band The Pauses have a leg up on the release with their video for 'Go North' featuring the amazing Moldovian contortionist and foot archer Lilia Stepanova. The band just finished a show in the last few days at SXSW, having played the New Granada label showcase. This excellent track Go North can be found on their release 'A Cautionary Tale', which you can pick up at the BandCamp link below. [...]
Dunno who The Main Stem are, nor who are Rhythm Oddyssy. TMS tuurns out to be Ben Shenton-Jones from Birmingham. Anyhow, they've combined to turn an annoying indie track with a Clash/Suede fascination into a tripped out warehouse dub, with lots of 808 and spaces between the beats. Acid burbles nicely in this one. Contortion Danse [The Rhythm Oddyssey Warehouse Dub] Blurb: The Main Stem debut with "Contortion Danse," their first single for Lipservice. It oozes new-wave swag, with 'James Flanagan's' vocals setting the scene. Clash-esque guitar chops and cowbell pings are [...]
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Beginning in the mid-to-late 19702s through the mid 19802s in New York City , an art & cultural movement exploded on the Lower East Side in the wake of the city's, and the country's, socio-economic turmoil. Spawning a myriad of new musical styles, bands, visual artists, nightclubs and cutting-edge filmmakers, the volatility and desperation gave us works which recorded and clearly marked the period before gentrification, Reaganomics and MTV began to commoditize the scene. In French director Céline Danhier's exceptional documentary film, BLANK CITY , she takes us on an in-depth exploration of the rise & fall [...]
A brief interview with one of the greatest new talents to emerge on the electronic music scene in the last few years, Max Cooper along with a 1 hour live set (featuring tracks from his upcoming Metaphysical EP). -Can you tell us about your background and your venture into electronic music? I have been really into electronic music ever since I first heard it as a child, and then actively involved since I started Djing in about 1998. [...]
by James Marshall Kristian Hoffman has had a long and quite fabulous, almost Zelig-like career, beginning in the early 70's, where as a high school student in Santa Barbara, California, he hooked up with a young Lance Loud, often appearing as Loud's best pal on the first ever reality TV show - An American Family . I remember the first episode I saw, he was playing keyboards, and rocking out on "Brown Sugar" in a garage band that featured Lance as the lead singer. Kristian moved to NYC with Lance in the early [...]
When I first bought the legendary no-wave comp No New York , it took me a good year before I really felt like I understood and appreciated what the music was all about. I've been going through a bit of a no-wave renaissance these past few weeks, and as previously mentioned , The Contortions are my favorite band to rise out of the scene. Most no-wave bands seemed to focus on volume and dissonance, with rhythm achieved through sheer force and will. The Contortions had James Chance as their [...]
rest in peace jade. you are in my thoughts. you and princess diana. up in heaven. awwww. but not tony hart. fuck tony hart. beloved childrens entertainer, silverhaired brush-holding artistic visionmeister from my prepubescent years. you are worthy only of a page six paragraph or half column obituary. you are best left forgotten, dusty on the shelf with yr plasticine men and way with crayons and imperious [...]
No Wave was a brief but explosive moment of artistic experimentation. It was terminally nihilistic, and a lot of its artwork sucked. But its greatest achievements continue to deliver a jolting artistic impact.
Associated Entries: Athletic Automaton Providence, RI based AOR were formed in the mid 90s and their first show was being an opening act for Marylin Manson in a local club. They were chased by angry audience members after the show, but despite this they went on to have a fairly lengthy career, with most of their [...]
One night a few years ago, I was record shopping at this store called Rocks In Your Head, which used to be on Prince Street in SoHo. My friend Jessica brought me there for the first time after I met her at her place of work (an upscale spa with an A-list clientele) around the corner. There was a cute girl that used to work behind the counter, and she introduced me to bands like Orange Juice, Psychic Ills, and The Contortions. Although technically I don't think my asking, "What is this we're listening to?" counts as having her introduce [...]
______________________________ ______________________________ ___________________ Warped Reality Magazine: NO WAVE CONTEST Enter to win a copy of the new book by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley Thurston Moore and Byron Coley have just released NO WAVE [Abrams Image], a widescreen visual chronicle of NYC's downtown experimental music scene circa 1976-1980. The book brings the era to vivid life, through a great mix of visuals —from club flyers to posed portraits and candids taken in skuzzy clubs and on crumbling tenement rooftops. Thrumming with the same kind of vibrant, often [...]
So, what is No Wave? The name came about as reaction to the term New Wave. At the tail end of the 70's the record industry was trying to rebrand punk & labeled the poppier bands that came in the aftermath of Punk as New Wave. The No Wave bands wanted to reject this poppier side but they also felt no affinity to Punk. At the time, Lydia Lunch (the queen of No Wave?) bemoaned how Punk was just sped up Chuck Berry riffs & it is true that if you listen to most (but not all!) punk [...]
One of the original punk-jazz groups of the New York No Wave scene, the Contortions were led by saxophone player James Chance, aka James White. (aka James Zhite, aka James Black, etc.) Their first recorded appearance, credited solely as the Contortions, was on the 1978 compilation, No New York . The following year, two albums were issued almost simultaneously on the ZE label, Buy the Contortions (an extreme jazz-punk LP) & Off White (a disco/standards hybrid; with one side vocals, the other side instrumentals). The same line-up recorded both records, although no one aside from [...]
Nathan Nothin here... I've been barricaded in the vinyl room for four days now. I just now found out that it's Sunday night. So my Saturday Mix is a slight misnomer, well sue me. The hurricane curtains block out all light, all sound louder than my stereo. Four days of nothing but vinyl... What I have convinced myself that I believe that I remember that I heard, random pockets of memory left un-eroded by the torrential squall of drugs & alcohol, the following soundtrack from my latest lost weekend. Tracks: Baby's on Fire - Brian Eno [...]
Play it: James Chance Irresistible Impulse (Box set sampler) Sometimes I think the Rhapsody additions are mysteriously connected to what I'm reading. Take for example yesterday's addition of the box set on James Chance entitled Irresistible Impulse . It comes on the very day I read the No Wave New York chapter in Simon Reynolds ' Rip it Up and Start Again: PostPunk 1978-1984 . [...]
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