Following Tiny Dancer's introduction to the quite frankly disturbing world of Angels Of Light during our recent podcast and also to coincide with Halloween, I have been brooding over the number of songs that can be said to truly upset me. I'm talking about the sort of songs that leave you feeling slightly less comfortable with the world than you were before you'd heard them. There probably aren't that many around but I reckon these three just about hit the spot. Public Image Ltd had the obvious head start of having Johnny Lydon's [...]
UK Music magazine The Wire has an in-depth interview with Underground Resistance on the state of music, DJing, Detroit, new blood and why making music is better than selling drugs. UR's idea of future jazz has brought us an expansive library of timeless music without selling out. techno , underground resistance , ur , detroit , detroit techno , electro , future jazz , mike banks , dj , the wire
If I had to pick a favourite era for music, it would be 1977-1982. Of course, I was too young to know what it meant at the time, but it's the era that I have spent time tracking down the most sounds from. There was just so much great stuff: The original UK punks finally getting the chance to make records, Roots reggae from Jamaica, the beginning of Hip-Hop, Bowie's Berlin period, the beginning of indie, Post-punk, New Wave, No Wave, Disco, New Romantics (before it got silly), Marvin Gaye's 'Sexual Healing', Siouxsie, the arrival of [...]
I apologize in advance for not taking the time to put together cover art to go with this mix, but I'm totally spent this evening. I also apologize that the songs aren't properly sequenced (is that what I mean?)...you'll have to take on that task yourself. I found two mixes on my hard drive this evening that I made for a girl I once thought was pretty cool. I don't think much of her these days. Heh. Come to think of it, I never gave her either mix. I figured it would be a complete shame to delete [...]
MP3 Steve Earle - "Way Down in the Hole" (Tom Waits cover) Apologies for the unofficial hiatus here @ The Big Ticket. Weddings, birthdays & shows galore have come & gone, and yet Keith Olbermann has remained atop the page. Ugh. Anyway, here's a teaser for the 5th & final season of HBO's The Wire , whose way-too-good-for-the-Emmys 4th season DVD will be in stores December 4th. Season 5 premieres on HBO January 6th, 2008. The theme song, performed this [...]
Download : Hole - "Gutless" Download : R.E.M. - "Ignoreland" Download : The Replacements - "Run It" Download : Nirvana - "Very Ape" Download : Minor Threat - "Seeing Red" Download : Husker Du - "Real World" Download : Pantera - "5 Minutes Alone" Download : Battle Royale - "Oh, Martha" [...]
I promised another mix over the weekend so I'm keeping my word. This is a mix that I always re-burn when the CD becomes unplayable. After a couple years, I still enjoy putting this one in the car's player. 1. Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane 2. The Bees - Chicken Payback 3. Le Tigre - Hot Topic 4. Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless 5. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now 6. Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait 7. [...]
Audiversity's weekly column, slightly modified, on random music in a predetermined number of words between 1 & 150. This week's randomly generated number: 111. MA: Sadly, jazz keyboardist Joe Zawinul passed away earlier this week from a rare skin disease. Though the Austrian musician wasn't the only driving force in the movement, he was certainly an indispensable component in the developing of jazz-fusion by pioneering the use of electric piano and synthesizers in jazz music. Zawinul spent nine years playing [...]
The "Days of the week" Theme Songs has reached its final post. It's Sunday, and I had no problems finding Sunday-songs at all. I guess musicians like the lazy Sundays, and we like the music they make. Here is the last of the "Days of the week" mixes: SUNDAY SONGS. Please comment if you like it, hate it or if you would like to add something. Thanks for listening. The songs will be online for one week only. The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday [...]
Punk's Not Dead takes you into the sweaty underground clubs, backyard parties, recording studios, and yes, shopping malls and stadium shows where punk rock music and culture continue to thrive. Thirty years after bands like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols infamously shocked the system with their hard, fast, status-quo-killing rock, the longest-running punk band in history is drawing bigger crowds than ever, "pop-punk" bands have found success on MTV, [...]
I've been meaning to do some posts on (relatively) older bands, so here's the first one.... Posting the new M.I.A. video reminded me of something. M.I.A. received some help on her first album from Justine Frischmann, the lead singer and songwriter from Elastica. Elastica stood out from the rest of the Britpop pack, mostly because they were imitation (or, in some cases, straight ripping off) British post-punk when others bands wanted to be the Beatles or the Stones. The band were an instant success. They were interviewed in NME and did a Peel [...]
Well folks, it's August 1st -- time for college kids around the world to move back to their rented houses.* I'm lucky; for me it just means a move across the street, but for many it means UHauls, pizza bribes and sore backs. So while I'm busy getting utilities turned ...
Mirage - Lady Operator (headphonesex.co.uk) Glass Candy - Miss Broadway (headphonesex.co.uk) Rocky Votolato - Postcard From Kentucky (cokemachineglow.com) The Jackson 5 - Big Boy (soul-sides.com) Wire - Ex Lion Tamer (youaintnopicasso.com) The La's - Callin' All (youaintnopicasso.com) Estate - Let Her Know (this.bigstereo.net) Imperial Teen - Everyone Wants to Know (fluxblog.org) Muslimgauze [...]
S o here is another installment of the Uncle's Primordial Soup and I would be willing to bet that a huge portion of the people reading this has a hard time remembering life before the Internet. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of the Internet's biggest fans, but it has changed the way I (and many others) feel about music. Instead of vinyl LP's and CD's we have MP3's that we got from eMusic or our favorite music blog. The cover art on my Zune is shrunk to a minuscule [...]
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Originally uploaded by Southcoasting These Anthony Gormley statues are wonderful. Not for themselves, but just for their number and positioning. They started out as part of a Hayward Gallery exhibition, all up high on the skyline visible from the London southbank, but now seem to have appeared in other places across the city, bringing with them a sense of fun and wonder. Before this, they were
On to another UK punk band formed in 1976, a band I had quite frankly never heard of until yesterday (thanks melchman for bringing in their debut CD). Wire was right there though, putting out a brand of art punk / post-punk that influenced later artists like Henry Rollins, REM, and the Minutemen, to name a few. Pink Flag was their debut, released in December 1977. It's 21 songs of thrashing punk rock, several of the songs clocking in at under a minute. This one's just over a minute long. [...]
Once upon a time, there was a band named Wire. They were an influential British punk band that started up in the late 70s and never seemed to stick together for more than a couple of years at a time. Various solo projects and other frustrations conspired to throw the band into the dustbin at regular intervals, and while their productive periods each show Wire in the process of aggressive evolution through guitar-fueled electronica to electronica-influenced clockwork guitar riffage, it's still the band's early post-punk works that seem to inspire other musicians the most. Take, for example, "Three [...]
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