These New Puritans Genre: Live Electronics / Big Beat / Shoegaze From: Southend, United Kingdom It's been a long hard week in work so what better way to celebrate a couple of days recuperation in the company of those eclectic, enchanting meisters of alt rock These New Puritans. Unfortunately as they're over [...]
Amo, amas, amat. I was a comprehensive school student, so I never got to hear those words in their proper context. No Latin lessons for us plebs, much to my dismay. As a teen, I managed to straddle the delicate line between socialism and snobbery: I wanted to be both a Trotskyite and to have the benefits of the sort of education that included instruction in dead languages. Of course, at the time I was convinced it was because of my underlying interest in etymology and linguistics, but I'm sure there was a large dose of [...]
Audiversity's weekly column on random music in a predetermined number of words between 1 & 150. This week's randomly generated number: 90. MA: (#90 of a random playlist generated from my ever-changing database of 12,500+ songs) Tony Allen is finally getting his props. After years of sitting patiently behind the legendary personality that was Fela Kuti and providing the most important aspect afrobeat, that mind-blowing rhythms, Allen is finally getting the respect he deserves. And of all things, it's his subdued [...]
You know what I love most about President's Day? It's not about the blood orgies held at local city halls around the country, or about the mandatory slaying of every household's firstborn child. It's about people, staying home from work, on a day with relatively little significance in the grand scheme of things. Except for me, of course. I still have to put in a handful of hours at my telecommuting gig. That's not fun. I can already sense a soon-to-be chronic pain forming in the back of my neck. It's been lingering for almost four days now, intensifying with [...]
I just got back from seeing Pan's Labyrinth , and let me tell you - that movie is a total laugh riot! With all the brutality and bloodshed and death, it's amazing anybody could leave the movie theater smiling. Oh, wait...I meant to type, "It's the most depressing movie I've seen in ages." I did laugh a lot watching Lindsey continually squirm through torture scenes. On a scale of ONE-to-BLOOD, I rate this movie BLOOD. It begged for the tagline, "A flood of blood bloodier than any blood bled before." Hey, Sunday Mix Tape! [...]
Hey, after a long and painful series of fatal computer errors - I've updated to a new, completely decked out MacBook. Heh... yeah, 2 gigs of ram, 160 gig hardrive. The works. Needless to say, I'm a happy camper. Now on to the music. I recently got an email asking me to give this new band from Manchester a listen. They are... a funky Bloc Party with a lot of potential. Morning Sparks are... Ade Harrison - Rhodes, Juno & Nord Dan [...]
The political music I like doesn't have any sloganeering in it, it's not a pamphlet, it's not about easy solutions to hard problems, it's not about rules to live all lives by, it won't try to impose... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://20jazzfunkgreats.blogsp ot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An airless former meat storage unit in an industrial corner of Brixton in London hardly sounds like a place with any potential to spark creativity. Originally discovered by David Cunningham (Flying Lizards), Cold Storage (as it became known) became the de-facto home to London trio This Heat, who recorded there virtually every day (sometimes for days at a time) between 1977 and 1981. Initially it didn’t seem like a viable space. Dotted here and there with old blood (like an au naturel, three-dimensional Jackson Pollock), covered in metal cladding and with no source of light or [...]
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Warped Reality
The Rains of Castamere by The National
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
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DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
CHROMATICS "THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME"
Stream: Azealia Banks, “Van Vogue”
Maryland Deathfest Day 3: Morbid Angel, Winter, Brujeria, Dragged Into Sunlight, Haemorrhage, Confessor and more
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Secret Dance Moves
