buy Tamiflu buy Relenza buy shares in Big Pharma buy waste bins (for catching & killing) buy dust masks and party hats. sell everyone on fear. sell farms, sell sensationalism, sell newspapers by the truckload. sell off natural immunity. sell insecurity. sell NWO conspiracy horseshit to irresponsible posers. sell common sense down the river. if this [...]
... so i made this one for him. * * * * * * * Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood (b. May 8 , 1942 , Arkansas City, Kansas ) is an American [...]
It's galling to me that serious people actually give enough of a shit about what slick Hollywood sleazoids like Ryan Reynolds think to commission Written Articles About Stuff from them, especially when it's ostensibly reputable blogs like Huffington Post doing the commissioning. Take this bleating piece , for instance, in which Ryan takes the moral high-ground re: the decadent wastefulness of competitive eating contests, mainly by invoking a variety of third-world children he has made up. "Young Mustafat, who maintains a strict diet of inner turmoil and bleached [...]
It occurs to me that i have never written a cake review before. Partly it's because the need for such a thing has never really occurred to me. Mostly though, i'd say, it's because i'm not much of a cake person. i find most cakes incredibly rich, even cheap supermarket ones, probably because that much sweetness in one entity just makes me to start to feel like a post-chocolate-chute Augustus Gloop after about two mouthfuls, but possibly because real cake never lived up to the reality of the ur- cake of cartoons, that perfect condensation of the essence of [...]
Yes yes... lesser-spotted North-West hip-hop phenomena 30,000 Bastards (aka my rap group) are soon to be found in Liverpool for a hip-hop/d'n'b night at The Magnet . July 11th, three quid door tax. We're playing with Children of the Damned of Blah Records (who supported RZA in the 'Pool recently), A.R.T. , Dalema , and Doc Strange . i should probably know all of those guys and their music more than i actually do, but fortunately i've found a load [...]
Something you don't typically encounter every day is a plan to create "one massive 'sonic beacon' resonating with the greatest riff ever written while this world ends". To be honest, i don't recall ever encountering such a plan. But Kavus Torabi , of LJB favourites The Monsoon Bassoon 1 and Cardiacs , and latterly of Knifeworld , plans to rectify this situation. Shamefully i was unfamiliar with the Torabi-proclaimed "greatest riff ever written" (you'll see in a minute) but it is, admittedly, [...]
Desert Island Dicks are an arcane international noise collective who have released numerable musical recordings of various styles. Little is known about their number or demographics, but acknowledged compositional influences include BBC Radio 4 ; hip-hop; strong coffee ; The Conet Project ; '60s jazz avant-garde: Coleman, Cherry, Taylor, Dolphy, Ra; John Zorn; The Evolution Control Committee; Zappa; The Fall; Metal Machine Music ; Cassetteboy; Futurism; Dada; Reich; Cage; Penderecki; The KLF; John Watermann; WFMU . Their first known full-length, Bring [...]
i'm not going to bother writing much about Michael Jackson since everything there is to say in the entire world has already been said, except: there goes a man so huge that when he died, he broke the internet (for a bit). Needless to say hip-hop, for one, would be massively different without him, both in terms of the amount of people he literally introduced to music and the amount that borrowed a bit of his, as this dizzying – and still incomplete ("where's The Tamperer feat. Maya ?" frets Action Andy ) – [...]
Potential for listening in a forest clearing: high. Dedicated to: Steven Wells , IZ the Wiz & Michael Jackson. 1. Shibusashirazu Orchestra – "Honda Komuten Theme" ( Shibuboshi , 2004) 2. Deadweight – "Re-Runs" ( Stroking the Moon , 2003) 3. Frank Zappa – "We Are Not Alone" ("The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou Medley", single, 1983) 4. Delusionists – "Supa Lyrical Excursion pt.2" ( The Prolusion , 2009) 5. Warcloud – "Get Right" [...]
Usually i hate bands with animal-featuring names. Whether it's for the smart-arse wackiness of Horse the Band and their ilk 1 or the total dearth of imagination (musical and general) usually signified by animal-naming ("Rob, we ' re called Sonic Death Monkey … If Laura and her bourgeois lawyer friends can't handle it, fuck them. Let 'em riot." Yeeeaahhhh.) or the fact that seemingly every other indie hipster darling of the last few years is called something Bear. Grizzly Bear , Minus the Bear [...]
Rooster morning call 'too loud' Rocky the rooster has ruffled a few feathers in a Hampshire village with his early morning wake-up calls. Neighbours living in Marchwood complained to environmental health officers about his loud cockadoodledos. Owner Paul Wilton has had to black out the windows of Rocky's home to keep him quiet or face a fine of up to £5,000. [BBC] [...]
...but i still couldn't resist this (sorry). MP3 : Wolf Eyes — " Stabbed in the Face "
...why, this stuff of course! (Just a brief glance at some current rotationals.) Germlin Because the only excuse i need to rinse a new Germlin album is possessing a copy. mp3 : " Graves II (feat. Kania Tieffer ) " Ornette Coleman He's curating this year's Meltdown festival and the line-up looks worth selling a kidney for. There's a show where Ornette, his current quartet and special guests [...]
How about this? "A user of a website who gets frustrated and leaves if they can't find the information they desire within three clicks is the kind of indolent, spoon-fed scumbag that should be ridiculed and told to grow a fucking attention span, rather than pandered to by ineffectual, moron-enabling web designers." 1 mp3 : Ice Water — " Click Click " feat. Raekwon 1 'Specially since the three-click rule is a [...]
Out From Animals — "Skeletons (demo mix)" feat. 30,000 Bastards Footage from two old Disney shorts: The Skeleton Dance (August 29, 1929, the very first Silly Symphony ) and The Haunted House (December 2, 1929); and from Fleischer's Betty Boop vehicle Minnie the Moocher , which also features the earliest-known footage of Cab Calloway and his orchestra. Edited by Action Andy. [...]
Yes indeed! My hip-hop group 30,000 Bastards guested on a track by our mates/co-conspirators Out From Animals . It's called "Skeletons", and it's largely themed around, well, skeletons innit: Lyrics (rap bit): [AcheZen Pains] in a dark, dark land there was a battle of discovery worth alerting vertebrates amidst the skullduggery our delicate presence, ephemeral essence hereditary heavenly bodies battle minds to find their legacy [MC Diss-1] i got calcium for [...]
Top to bottom: Prince Harry chills on the cricket pitch in a Che Guevara shirt; Tony " I love the Clash! " Blair rocks out; artwork by devil-may-care guerrilla rule-breaker Bank$y sequestered behind protective glass , Brighton, UK.
MUGABE 'TO GET CLIFFORD' Public relations guru Max Clifford has a new client - in the form of Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe . Mr. Clifford, previously known for his work with such cultural luminaries as Jade Goody, O.J. Simpson, celebrity pig onanizer Rebecca Loos and some non-entity that falsely accused Neil & Christine Hamilton of sexually assaulting her, is set to jet out to Harare next week to sprinkle his personalised brand of PR magic on the beleaguered Zimbabwean [...]
Shockingly, it's now been a year 1 without redoubtable producer/MC/singer/Jukie Camu Tao . i'm sure my feelings on hearing the news of his death, a couple of days after my birthday, coming completely out of leftfield — cancer? 31 years old? dead? There must be some mistake. — are shared by a lot of Jux fans. Camu's Jux labelmates, including Aes Rock , Cage , and El-P have also been remembering, posting brief anniversary reminiscences [...]
Photos by: su-lin , paulhammond , kirsty @ Flickr; William @ Safe to Eat ; Maarten Hillebrandt When it appeared on the Wordlab comp back in 2000, Blak Twang 's "Masterchef Sandwich" was dismissed as a "terminally parochial" example of "why Brit-rap has remained underground for so long" by some clueless turdburger at the New Musical Express . Needless to say, it's nothing of the sort; rather, the man Tony Rotton hooks [...]
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