By Robert Ham Doc - Mitsuo Yanagimachi: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1976) Watch more on Network Awesome In his book Retromania , peerless cultural critic Simon Reynolds spends an entire chapter talking about a particularly "Japanese sensibility": "the way that [they] would curate, assimilate and reprocess Western popular culture. "According [journalist W. David] Marx, in Japan style is not personal, a [...]
Cinema, spirits and soul! Monica opened her show with a set that included Niobe, Spiritualized, The Stylistics, and Nino Rota. Sharon Van Etten recently played her entire new album, Tramp, at the Mercury Lounge. She and band mate Heather Woods will be on Jeffrey Davison's Shrunken Planet this Saturday, February 12th from 6-9am. Last week, Jeffrey played "Ask" from the album. Jeremiah Lockwood, whose father was a cantor, grew up steeped deep in Jewish Music, but also enjoyed country blues guitar. He [...]
It's dismaying and bittersweet that the week in which we celebrate the birthday of celebrated hip-hop producer J. Dilla (February 7th), we also have to reconcile the fact that it was only a few days later that the legend passed away from complications related to lupus (Feburary 10th). In the years since his death at the maddeningly young age of 32, Dilla's cult has grown significantly, but this posthumous appraisal is definitely not without good reason. It was even while bed-ridden in a hospital suffering from the disease that would take his life that Dilla crafted the exquisite opus [...]
"That's probably the hardest I've worked on any project," says Avi Spivak , the illustrator behind Norton Records ' recent issue of Kicksville Confidential . And if you've seen Kicksville , released this past October, you'll understand what he means by "hard work" -- the Brooklyn-based artist's painstaking renderings of Norton stars are as detailed as they are funny, and they're clearly the toil of someone with a deep interest in u-ground comics and gutsy r'n'r alike. In Spivak's enthusiastic scrawl -- part Kaz, part MAD , part G. Panter, part [...]
FOOD is a short film directed by aritst/photographer Robert Frank about Gordon Matta-Clark and Carol Goodden's conceptual restaurant. Founded in 1972 in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, FOOD brought together many factors of the local community, artists and otherwise, becoming a space for dialogue and conversation as well as a living piece in it of itself. (watch the film after the jump) The player will show in this paragraph Matta-Clark would commission artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage to create meals, many of which were unedible. [...]
Tony Coulter here, with a critical audiovisual update for your mental operating system. Click your way past the fold, and you will find music and videos by three groups I've already blogged about here on BotB. This is the stuff I should have/ would have/ could have included the first time around. Better Nate than lever, no? You may continue to use your computer during this essential update. ______________________________ ______________________________ _____________________________ Back in December of 2010, I blogged on Portland's Tree People, whose last-ever U.S. concert I had just seen. I posted tracks from their second [...]
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a physical sensation characterized by a pleasurable tingling that typically begins in the head and scalp, and often moves down the spine and through the limbs. Most ASMR episodes begin by an external or internal trigger, and are so divided for classification. Type A episodes are elicited by the experiencer using no external stimuli, and are typically achieved by specific thought patterns unique to the individual. Type B episodes are triggered involuntarily by an external [...]
Give the Drummer Some's Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere After our hopeful words last week about an attempted comeback at The Vault , it appears (for now) that this mighty Everest of music sharing has been reduced to rubble. Adding to the misery in blogland this week was the apparent demise of the enlightened pages at Weird Brother , but an outpouring of appreciative comments at the site has led erudite host, Y Brawd, to consider giving it another go. (We were all set in this post [...]
Ronnie Hawkins - The Ballad Of Caryl Chessman (Let Him Live, Let Him Live, Let Him Live) Hoyle Miller - Twelve Years On Death Row Country Johnny Mathis - Caryl Chessman In July 1948, Caryl Chessman, also known as "The Red Light Bandit," was sentenced to die in the California gas chamber after being convicted on 17 charges of robbery, kidnapping [...]
It's been a minute since a concept record got released in NYC. Talibam! used to be known as a chaotic, skronky free jazz group. In the past years, they've been working on a rap album which they performed at the final show at Issue Project Room's Can Factory location. Now I'm hearing this even less explicable Discover AtlantASS , which will be released in a couple weeks. The concept opera comes along with a 25 page comic that details some events of the story, which is about something like a teenager who gets kidnapped by jazzfish or something. Dunno. Just listen! Talibam! + [...]
Apropos of nothing but to get the police off the streets by nine o'clock, here's sixty-six minutes of The Originator, Bo Diddley, seen here with friends Jerome Green, The Duchess, Chuck Berry and himself, Bo Diddley:
As part of Thunk Tank's bid to expand our global media empire, this week we're expanding into the lucrative world of daily horoscope readings. Every newspaper prints these things, people go online to read them, the Zodiac Killer is beloved by millions, it seems only natural that Thunk Tank should provide horoscope readings in order to attract more listeners. Thunk Tank being Thunk Tank, however, we have decided to forgo the traditional horoscopes provided by either Western or Eastern traditions, and instead provide our own system based on a person's date of birth and a corresponding Monopoly game piece. And [...]
Aziz Mian! (thank you Katherine Graham):
by Whitney Weiss Talk Show - John Waters See more on Network Awesome When I was 22, I was lured to Provincetown (once a thriving hotbed of underground artists and cultural revolutionaries, now home to condominiums and dogs in strollers) by the promise of relatively easy money and the opportunity to meet my favorite living director, John Waters, who spends his summers [...]
"One never know, do one?" - Fats Waller Today's tape was intriguing enough when I heard the first six minutes of it. When I heard the remainder of the tape (which also indicated what that six minutes had been recorded over, I was even more fascinated. Recorded over the initial third of the tape, at 15 IPS (the speed often used at recording studios), in whole track mono, after some initial setting up sounds, were versions of two Rockabilly classics, the first being "Heartless Woman" (most often associated with Terry Noland ) and the second [...]
With some friends working on a Peter Cook / Dudley Moore project recently, my mind wandered back to thinking about the many hilarious and truly outrageous things that they had filmed and recorded over the years. Someday I'll do a long article about them but for today I just want to talk about one of my favorite comedy albums as a teenager - Derek and Clive / Ad Nauseum . My record-buying budget was slender in those days (1979), and I recall vividly how upon seeing the new copy of Ad Nauseum in [...]
Black Pus is the many-armed beast of a solo project from Brian Chippendale, one of the most distinct musicians and visual artists of our time. If you're not already familiar with the sounds of Black Pus , you may recognize Chippendale's many-armed drumming style and masked mic-in-mouth vox from his duos Mindflayer and Lightning Bolt . A co-founder of the storied Fort Thunder artist collective, Chippendale still lives in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, in a former mill building where lately he seems to be writing a new Black Pus song almost every night. So while we're wrapping our [...]
No comments necessary, just watch this clip. Thanks to the folks at Norient for posting this a while back.
Sometimes music makes climbing the Monday mountain more palatable. On More Exiting Moments, Frank O'Toole played an MP3 of The Butterfield Blues Band, from a 1966 live Filmore Show. Liz Berg played a set that included Richard Papercuts , The Skunks, and Baby Tears. Irene Trudel played Curved Air next to 1971, pre-disco Bee Gees, and Colin Blunstone. Singer Joy Askew will be Irene's guest, Monday, Febuary 6th from Noon-3pm This Saturday, Febuary 4, from 6-9am, Jeffery Davison will have the Rhode Island folk duo Brown Bird as his guests on Shrunkin' Planet He [...]
Pure adrenaline. All Pigs Must Die live at The Acheron in Brooklyn on 20 Jan 2012
WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Young Jeezy featuring Jay-Z, Andre 3000 & Drake – I Do (Remix)
On The Cover Of A Magazine
Miike Snow – Paddling Out (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
Kylie Minogue receives threats on Twitter, alerts police!
Miike Snow - “Paddling Out” Jacques Lu Cont Remix (MP3 Stream)
