Monday 24 September 2012

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong rants in Las Vegas, off to rehab


After the show

'punkers'???

Romney Defends Tax Rate In '60 Minutes' Interview


Mitt Romney paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent in 2011, according to a tax return filed on Friday, a relatively low tax rate resulting from exotic deductions, the special tax treatment for his Bain Capital retirement package and the low tax rate on capital gains. Romney also opted not to deduct millions in charitable contributions from his tax bill in order to maintain a pledge from August that he has paid at least 13 percent in federal income taxes for each of the past 10 years.Romney's income was $13,696,951 in 2011, and he paid $1,935,708 in taxes. Romney's income for the year was more than 263 times larger than the U.S. median household income of $51,914.
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Bear in mind that Romney can still reclaim those charitable contributions in an ammended tax return

'Trespassing scum'

HMRC boss Dave Hartnett is the man responsible for cutting dodgy deals with Vodafone, Goldman Sachs and other large corporations that have cost the taxpayer billions in lost revenue. When we discovered that he was making his retirement speech at an elite tax avoidance conference, we couldn't resist popping in. We donned our best Goldman Sachs and Vodafone costumes, bought some flowers and knocked up a fake award. This is what happened.

♪♫ Cat Power - Cherokee

In all honesty what the fuck was that all about?

Megaupload Readies for Comeback, Code 90% Done

With 50 million visitors per day at its peak, Megaupload was one of the largest websites on the Internet.
This quickly changed January this year when the U.S. Government took down the file-hosting service and had several key employees arrested including founder Kim Dotcom.
Abruptly, the focus of Megaupload’s team shifted from serving customers to defending itself in a high-profile criminal prosecution. While the criminal case is moving ahead very slowly, Megaupload’s founder does have some progress to report on another front.
Dotcom previously announced that he planned to bring Megaupload back to life, and new information suggests that this may happen rather quickly. In an update this weekend he tweets that most of the work on the second incarnation of the site is already done.
“Quick update on the new Mega: Code 90% done. Servers on the way. Lawyers, partners and investors are ready,” Dotcom teases.
“Be patient it’s coming,” he adds.
From the brief progress update it’s clear that the site is on schedule for launch later this year. In addition, it’s interesting to note that despite the ongoing criminal case, partners and investors are happy to be involved.
In recent weeks Dotcom has delivered several hints about the new Megaupload, which he says will be bigger and better than the file-hosting service that was taken down.
“We are building a massive global network. All non-US hosters will be able to connect servers & bandwidth,” he explained earlier.
According to Dotcom we can expect a Megaupload with an even greater range of applications than just file-sharing. While developers of file managers are being encouraged to get in touch for early API access, Dotcom is also calling out to those involved in email and fax tools, VOIP and video apps.
It’s clear that Dotcom doesn’t have the slightest urge to throw in the towel.
“They abused the wrong guy. I am going to turn this world upside down. Power to the people. Bye bye Echelon. Hello Freedom,” Dotcom added.
It will be at least a few more weeks before the new Megaupload appears online, but there are exciting times ahead. MEGA exciting.
Ernesto @'TorrentFreak' 

Government Spies Illegally Bugged Dotcom, New Zealand Prime Minister Admits

James Williamson 'busks' on the streets of Paris



Bonus:
James Williamson teaches 'Search and Destroy' to the Rochester MI School of Rock!
Always made me laugh when the musos said the punks couldn't play!

A rare Pearl

Into the night with Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noé






A night in Nashville with native son Harmony Korine and the French filmmaker Gaspar Noé. Directed by Bruce LaBruce.

Truth

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(pity about the final result)

Want!

Make that need!

Sunday 23 September 2012

Let's Get Lost (1988)

Documentary about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker written and directed by Bruce Weber.
Bonus:

I used to go and see Chet Baker live a lot around this time in Am*dam. I think erratic would be the politest description of him then.

Water sports?

Town & Country feature one of the US's 25 'most eligible' bachelors in 1967
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Let's just hope that over 50% of the voters piss on Mitt come November 6

Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris/Fallen Angels - Live Liberty Hall Houston Texas 1973




Bonus:
Emmylou on Gram

The original sleeve and title for what became Grievous Angel
Fallen Angel

On September 19, 1973, the musician and heir to a million-dollar fortune died under the influence of drugs and alcohol near his favourite place - the Joshua Tree National Monument in the Californian desert. As the founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers, a member of the hit-making, legendary Byrds, an important influence on the Rolling Stones and the man who catapulted Emmylou Harris to fame, Gram Parsons made music history in only a few years. The film was made on location by director and musician Gandulf Hennig and American music journalist, musician and biographer Sid Griffin. Friends, contemporaries and devotees of Gram Parsons talk about the importance of his work and the bizarre circumstances of his early death. Rare footage of his performances shows why Gram Parsons has become a legend. Interviewees include Gram's wife Gretchen, his sister and his daughter, Keith Richards, Emmylou Harris, Chris Hillman and "Road Manager" Phil Kaufman.
OK I am biased as 26 years ago I named my first born Ingram after Mr. Parsons but when is he going to get voted into the country music hall of fame?

Pussy Riot's Russian Attorneys at NYU Law School (21/9/12)

PUNKCAST2072 "Pussy Riot and Protest: The Future of Dissent in Putin's Russia and Beyond—A Conversation with Pussy Riot's Russian Attorneys" at NYU School of Law on September 21 2012.
(Thanx Joly!)

Rhythm & Sound reissues seven essential records

After Basic Channel came to an end, Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald reversed their modus operandi and began applying techno strategies to dub under the Rhythm & Sound banner.
Only releasing seven 12″ EPs from 1997 to 2002, the label’s influence continues to ripple across the electronic music world. As press materials remind us, the “vapour trail of melody and a reverberating bass echo” that Rhythm & Sound pioneered is timeless.
Head over to Boomkat now to purchase the series.
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Saturday 22 September 2012

Famous robots

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#bitemyshinymetalass

Silverdroid Mixes

Basic Channel VS DeepChord
Chain Reaction VS DeepChord
Fluxion VS DeepChord

The Ghostvillage Project

The Ghostvillage Project was created over 3 days on the west coast of Scotland. 6 artists - Timid, Remi/Rough, System, Stormie Mills, Juice 126, Derm - were given free reign to paint in an abandoned 1970s village. Working together on huge collaborative walls and individually in hidden nooks and crannies all over the site the artists realised long held dreams and were inspired by the bleakness and remoteness of the site. Drawing on the history of the village the artists' stated intent on completion of the project was to populate the ghostvillage with the art and characters that it deserved.

Pussy Riot Feminism and the Orthodox Church

Ad Break: Fur

You got the right key but you're workin' on the wrong keyhole

Ever thought of sueing Al-Qaeda Genesis?

Bet you he has!

♪♫ Mark Stewart (ft. Factory Floor) - Stereotype

Released: Oct 1, 2012
Digital & Double 12" with remixes from Hype Williams, Daniel B. 'Front 242', Perc, Chrissy Murderbot, Italoconnection.
Directed by Orla Fokdal
Starring: Sebastian Bartz & Cara Cherie Emmanuel-Risch.
Listen to the Hype Williams remix of 'Stereotype' HERE and keep an ear out for the forthcoming dub version of the Politics Of Envy.

Mark Eitzel - I Love You But You're Dead

Romney releases 2011 tax return, paid IRS 14.1 percent however it is interesting that the 2010 return wasn't made public

Caricuao Sound System (19/9/12)

1-Count Lasher with Lynn Taitt - Hooligans
2-Bob Marley & The Wailers - Hooligan
3-Hepcat - The Secret Dub
4-Hepcat - Live On Dub
5-Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - At The Border,Guy
6-Bad Brains - Natty Dredlocks Pon The Mountain Top
7-Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons - I'm In Dancin Mood (Espiando en los 80's)
8-The Fools - It's A Night For Beautiful Girls (Espiando en los 80's)
9-Gangsters - Cardboard City
10-Sinead O' Connors - 4th and Vine
11-UB40- The Key (Live From Hammersmith 83')
12-The Starlites - Rocksteady Train
13-Blundetto - Treat me Like That
14-Easy Star AllStars - Pretty Young Thing
15-Ann Reid - Remember When
16-Natty King - No Guns To Town
17-Barrington Levy - Shine Eye Girl
18-Sugar Minott - Nah Follow Nuh Fashion



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John Cale - Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood (2012)




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Friday 21 September 2012

'I don't really give a damn whether it disturbs you or not. You can take [your concerns] and go straight to hell and take Obama with you. I don't give a shit. If you don't like it, don't come down my street.' 

- Bud Johnson

Islamophobia, Left and Right

Nine Planets

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Henson returns to the most provocative landscape of all

Bill Henson @ Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 8 Soudan Lane, Paddington, New South Wales 2021

The Man Who Fell To Earth

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Mitt Romney loses Tim Pawlenty as campaign co-chair 45 days before election

It truly is the insane GOP clown posse!!!

Throbbing Gristle - 'Desertshore / The Final Report' (Teasers)



Available from 26th November 2012.
Details at industrial-records.com
Say Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti of Desertshore / The Final Report:
The ‘Desertshore’ project is a 're-imagined' cover version of Nico’s seminal 1970 album first conceived by the late Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson in Berlin 2006. In 2010 at his home in Bangkok, he refocussed his approach readying to record guest vocalists while Chris and Cosey prepared material in their UK studio for his return there in December. Sadly, Sleazy unexpectedly died in his sleep on the 25th November in Bangkok.
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Meeting On The Desertshore: Sleazy Remembered At AV Festival

Photo: Paul Heartfield
Would E lahk ah nahce coop o' tea Gen? Looks like the bitter travesty you have beCOUM has been whitewashed out of the TG endgame...

♪♫ Wilco - Sunloathe

Directed by Peter Glantz. Art by Nathaniel Murphy.

Annie Clark Explains the Origins of St. Vincent and David Byrne's Collaborative Partnership


Got to be honest and say that I haven't really had much time for David Byrne since the magnificence of the first four Talking Heads albums and the first collaboration with Eno. Got a LOT of time for Annie Clark. This strikes me as a move by Byrne to expand his fan base out of the cerebral middle aged post-punk/art wank brigade whose waistlines are often bigger than their IQ if the truth be told and a move by Miss St. Vincent into the realms of total world domination.

Thursday 20 September 2012

Primal Scream's Andrew Innes on working with David Holmes

"We've been working with David Holmes, out in LA", Innes reveals. "How does it sound? All weird! This sounds like it’s a catch-all but... 'strange psychedelia'.
He continues, "We went over to David’s house in Belfast. He’d play us some old records and say, 'Listen to this vibe’. He’s very good at getting a ‘vibe’. Then you try and make some records from that and it seems to have worked.”
Holmes has produced a whopping 13 film soundtracks to date, so it's not surprising that Innes notes the grand depth of the Belfast man's production - "Obviously working with him it’s quite – to use another terrible term – ‘filmic’, he notes. "Quite big, there’s a lot of soundtrack references. I think it’s good, you’ll be hearing it soon.”
We can't wait... 'Til then, Irish fans can look forward to Arthur's Day (September 27), where Primal Scream will perform at one of the 500 venues taking part in the festivities. And it sounds like fans lucky enough to catch the band's set will hear some of these new tunes...
“It’s always better playing new songs", Innes tells us. "I know crowds just want to hear hits and it’s good fun playing hits but, if you’re a musician, you want to get some new stuff to make it interesting for yourself. Seeing which new songs get the best reaction, what works live and things like that. It’s exciting.”
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 New 'sophisticated' album early next year and I am looking forward to seeing them again in December.

Adrian Sherwood: Dub Without Borders

Adrian Sherwood was born in London in 1958. As a kid he fell in love with Jamaican music.
"If you were listening outside a reggae club the optics were shaking off the wall and you thought the building was being demolished," Sherwood says. "This was 1970, 1971. I was 12 or something."
The music that knocked him over is called dub, a mostly instrumental form of reggae that came out of Jamaica in the 1960s. It's a bassy, muted, pared-down version of its ancestor, often recorded on low-fidelity equipment. Sherwood says that dub's production techniques shaped the way he approaches his own work.
"It wasn't particularly just the dub but the techniques of it and the fact that the production was so exciting and uncluttered," he says. "So whatever I've applied my production to, whether it be funk, industrial, anything ... I've made sure they have the same space as in those great Jamaican productions."
Over a career that spans 30 years, Sherwood has fused the sounds of post-industrial music from the U.K. with Jamaican bass and rhythms. He built his name working with his idols, reggae artists like Lee "Scratch" Perry, Bim Sherman and Prince Far I. He's also produced for the industrial band Nine Inch Nails and the rock group Living Colour and remixed the electropop act Depeche Mode.
But Sherwood has put out only three albums of his own. The latest, out this year on his own label On-U Sound, is called Survival and Resistance.
Since Sherwood started On-U Sound in 1979 the label has released over 100 albums and singles, and it's where the producer brought together a family of artists that includes Dub Syndicate, New Age Steppers and African Head Charge.
"I find myself become like a brother to him," says Bonjo Iyabinghe Noah, leader of the group African Head Charge. On-U Sound put out African Head Charge's first album, My Life in a Hole in the Ground, in 1981. Noah says its not just Sherwood's skills on a mixing board that make him a favorite with musicians.
"The good thing about Adrian is that he was able to socialize especially with Jamaican people. Somehow they just like him," he says.
Noah has worked with Sherwood for most of his career. Together they've influenced another generation of British dub makers that includes Kevin Martin, who records as The Bug. Martin says he first heard a record from On-U Sound at a friend's house.
"He put on African Head Charge, who I'd never heard of before, but he also asked me to participate in a very large bong," he recalls. "I remember hearing chain saws, jet planes, voodoo chants, the most insane percussion sounds and mad dub effects. Literally, I had to run out of the guy's flat because it all seemed so out of control."
Martin returned to the album a month later to make sure he hadn't hallucinated the sounds. He hadn't.
"It's the chaos and madness that he navigated that was really interesting to me," says Martin. "His combination of taking very London-based post-punk sounds and mixing them with the heaviest dub definitely had a huge impact on me."
On the new album, Survival and Resistance, high-pitched electronic swells scatter across rumbling piles of low end. Delicately keyed piano melodies drift atop echoed dub effects. It's a little dub, a little industrial, some bossa and some blues roots. A whole lot of Sherwood. His sound is something he could pursue because owning his own label gave him complete control, and responsibility.
"You create your own destiny. You rise and fall on your own decisions," Sherwood says. "I'm very proud, although my label probably cost me a fortune over the years, it is my calling card, and that's what I'm very proud of."
Sami Yenigun @'npr'
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An Evening With Noam Chomsky: 'Education for Whom and for What?' (Video)

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'The purpose of education is not to make men and women into doctors, lawyers and engineers; the purpose of education is to make doctors, lawyers and engineers into men and women.'
 -W.E.B. Du Bois