Give the Drummer Some's Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere Hey, somehow in hustle and bustle of pumping out this weekly music missive, I forgot to celebrate my 200th Motherlode. A lot has gone on in the four years since I started this column. I got laid off, moved to Pittsburgh, cranked up the webstream Give the Drummer Radio for WFMU (read all about its "heroics" after Hurricane Sandy here ) and all the while, scoured and devoured the free-music omniverse for links to downloads of many hundreds of devastatingly [...]
Earcandy for your eyes Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Aaron Dilloway playing live in New York City at Home Sweet Home on February 20, 2013. After the break: MC5's Wayne Kramer w/special guests at Bowery Electric and Yob at Saint Votus. Deafheaven playing the Mogwai cover “Punk Rock/Cody” and “Dream House” from their upcoming LP live at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn on February 22, 2013. [...]
This is a guest post by Kristin Thomson , a social researcher, musician and co-director of Future of Music Coalition’s Artist Revenue Streams project . We'll discuss this groundbreaking project on the next episode of WFMU's Radio Free Culture , Monday 6-7pm ET. The changing relationship between radio airplay, record sales, musicians and income For at least fifty years of the 20th century, the relationship between music and radio airplay was fairly well understood. Record executives knew that if [...]
Give the Drummer Some's Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere Quite an epiphany kicks off today's haul. Ever hear of Indian sax legend Braz Gonsalves? Me neither until the excellent Indian and Pakistani Vinyl blog dropped the stunner that leads off today's Motherlode. Gonsalves turns 80 this year and just stopped playing jazz for good (though not because of age. He has renounced it due to his religious faith and now only performs gospel.) If you're a lover of Indian-jazz hybrid sounds like me—or even if you're [...]
WFMU's 2013 Marathon is approaching! Our annual on-air fundraising party hits your ears March 4th - 17th. Make a pledge now! Check out our new 2013 swag , featuring two new t-shirts ("Alley Cat" design by Gary Panter , and "Radio Zombies" design by Mayuko Fujino ), a truckload of new DJ Premiums , and more! All new and current Swag for Life members are eligible to receive our new messenger bag, and early pledgers [...]
by Robert Bellach Part of "Rubber Monsters & Giant Heroes Weekend"! What's on Network Awesome today? Gamera was both a reaction to, and a reflection of, the genre Godzilla 1 created. For better or worse, Gamera also helped shape the future of giant monsters (or kaiju 2 ). The character was supposedly created from a vision of a turtle in the clouds on an airplane flight by Daiei Motion Picture Company president Masaichi Nagata. But, it is just [...]
by my friend Katherine Graham . I asked her how long it was between shooting these and she said "one minute". They're arranged like a Brian DePalma scene and you should play both audio simultaneously.
I don't know that's there's much more to say about Dora Hall that hasn't been said i n a variety of places, so I'll let you look to those sites if you don't already know about the Solo Cup queen and her recording career. But I do know that I own a copy of an EP by Dora which appears to be fairly rare. While the songs on one side of the record (the first three heard below) can be found on one of Dora's children's albums, and can be had, [...]
Budding cartoonists and incurable doodlers take note: today's record will sharpen those skills! From the front cover: "This amazing FUNograph record and cartoon course supplies countless hours of amusement for kids from six to sixty! Anyone capable of writing his name can learn to draw more than a thousand faces." No foolin'! This 1946 record by Art Ross (on the Funnyface Records, Inc . label, out of Forest Hills, NY) and the accompanying instructional charts will show you how! Below is the record itself, so get out your pencils and [...]
Earcandy for your eyes Batillus playing "Beset" live in Brooklyn at Saint Vitus Bar on February 11, 2013. After the break: MC5's Wayne Kramer w/special guests at Bowery Electric and Yob at Saint Votus. Wayne Kramer playing “Kick out the jams” w/Handsome Dick Manitoba of The Dictators, “Chasing a fire engine”, “High School” and “Jail Guitar Doors” w/Jesse Malin and Jeremy Piven live at Bowery Electric in New York City on February [...]
Give the Drummer Some's Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere I received a comment during my latest radio show asking if I was going to play any music by Butch Morris. Morris, the legendary composer, cornetist and group-improvisation innovator had recently died and the listener was, understandably, asking if I was going to be paying tribute. The truth is I have mixed feelings about producing "remembrance" broadcasts. Doing so is a perfectly reasonable thing to do (no station produces better memorial programming than WKCR in New York), [...]
Based on many conversations I've had and readings of articles and books that I've done over the years, it seems that " The Ballad of John and Yoko " is a relatively divisive song within the Beatles catalog, and particularly among their singles, when it comes to the degree to which people enjoy it. I've seen it dismissed as a throwback at a point when the band had moved beyond such simple genres, a throwaway put together quickly at John's insistence and reflective of that genesis, or simply one of their weaker singles. It's the one song my younger daughter skips on [...]
Today let's learn about the song that killed! Not just on the charts but really killed them dead, in several countries even. I've had records that killed parties and DJ sets, but I generally avoid pieces that actually do murder. Who composed this gem? What was the piece? All this and more (including how RIPLEY 's caused 'The Star-Spangled Banner' to become our National Anthem) - right after the jump! And don't worry - there's no mp3 files or sheet music to accidentally kill you - [...]
Earcandy for your eyes Neurosis playing live at Brooklyn Masonic Temple on January 19, 2013. After the break: Pharmakon at Home Sweet Home and Theologian at Saint Vitus. Pharmakon playing live at Home Sweet Home in New York City on January 26, 2013. Theologian playing live at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn, New York City on January 21, [...]
Give the Drummer Some's Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere Like Zora Neale Hurston , Katherine Dunham won a Guggenheim to study culture of the African diaspora in Haiti and elsewhere. Like Maya Deren , who was once Dunham's secretary, the pioneering choreographer traveled to the field and produced an historic recording of music and ritual in the field. (Maya Deren's Voices of Haiti was shared right here in Motherlode #165 .) Our lead item today presents Dunham's miraculous 1956 recordings of Haitian, Cuban and Brazilian [...]
by Joe DeMartino Watch the whole video on Network Awesome If we’re very, very lucky -- and I’m talking here about the kind of luck that would get you rudely expelled from even the highest-class Las Vegas casino -- the star Betelgeuse, located 640 light years away from us in the top-left corner of the constellation Orion, will die within our lifetimes. Betelgeuse is much larger than our sun, [...]
Give the Drummer Some's Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere Beloved anarchist Emma Goldman famously chirped, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution." No cause is worth denial of joy, she insisted. From the fife and drum troops of the Continental Army, to the populist warblings of Woody Guthrie, to the Boss rocking the presidential stump, music has contributed to social and political upheaval throughout history. Take the Civil Rights movement for example, which was so awash in song as to have its own virtual [...]
Blissfully unaware of what was to come later in the month, in preparation for WFMU's Web-only, "silent" fundraiser, the plan for My Castle of Quiet was to mount three special programs; The Sonics of Terror , a soundtracks-only special; and two double bills— one improvised / experimental "noise" bill , and one metal bill, the latter showcasing two bands that I'd been "courting" for some months—Chicago's excellent Sun Splitter , passing through on tour, and Brooklyn's relatively unsung black-metal giants, Yellow Eyes . The latter program was to top off a [...]
D oes anyone under about 50 years old remember the Fuller Brush Men and Women? How they came door to door peddling not just brushes but all manner of items - many of the same sort of things you might find today in the Vermont Country Store Catalog? My mother loved our Fuller Brush Man - who I remember as an exceptionally friendly, rumpled little man with an immigrant's accent and a love of his job, which he did quite well. She had long wanted to capture his voice and [...]
"To Boys and Girls, Brothers and Sisters, Mothers and Dads: PICTURE NEWS looks the same as other books, but with appearance and method of presentation the likeness ends. PICTURE NEWS reports the news, the news with its endless appeal and its prophecy of things to come, in action and speaking and color pictures. Drawn pictures in bright colors with balloons, which are comics, have thrilled, amused, informed and taught. The U.S. Army has used them, so have important advertisers, and schools are beginning to know their value. [...]
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