Wednesday 22 April 2015

On immigration, the language of genocide has entered the mainstream

Oliver Sacks: Spalding Gray's Catastrophe

Tuesday 21 April 2015

Frankie Boyle: Britain’s criminally stupid attitudes to race and immigration are beyond parody

Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity


Elmo Hope was at the piano, with his trio, on an elevated stage. I sat and listened to them. Several minutes later, a small man in a gray leather suit, holding a large saxophone, brushed by me and jumped up on the stage. He had a black beard with a little patch of white in it. He was not introduced and, ignoring the trio, he began to blow his horn. The other musicians stopped and looked at him. No words were exchanged. Elmo Hope quietly closed his piano, the bass player parked his bass, the drummer put his sticks down, and they all sat back to listen. He was playing solo, and he kept right on playing for twenty to thirty minutes, just a burst of music. It seemed like a second; it was no time at all! Then he stopped and jumped down from the platform, covered with sweat. I approached him and said, “Your music is beautiful. I’m starting a record label, and I’d like you to be my first artist.” And a small voice in the back of my head said, “Oh, you are, are you?”
Bernard Stollman

Bernard Stollman R.I.P.

A man responsible for the release of one of my desert island discs

Saturday 18 April 2015

Star Spangled Banana - Nag Nag Nag


Star Spangled Banana was Aslan Kastanetz, Bob Katz, Midi Hi-Fye, Klaus Action & McGill.
Produced by Joe Mckechnie
Out on a 7" single on Agitated Records for Record Shop Day, 19th April 2014
Free download for RSD 2015

Loscil - Live @Fluister NL (31/3/13)

Friday 17 April 2015

'Fully Jointed'

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Roger Robinson - Ashes To Fire

Coming soon on Jahtari the album 'Dis Side Ah Town' produced and written by Roger Robinson and Disrupt

The story of The Slits' 'New Town'

With Dennis Bovell and Viv Albertine

Mingiedi Mawangu R.I.P.

Mingiedi Mawangu passed away last night (15/4), in Kinshasa. He was 85. He founded Konono No.1 in the 1960s and invented his own electrified likembe, which gave Konono No.1 its distinctive sound. He led the band and toured with them until a few years ago.
He will be dearly missed by his son Augustin and the rest of the band. The funeral will take place next week
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Thursday 16 April 2015

'I had a moment of unexpected compassion for him'

Wednesday 15 April 2015

Chunky Mark visits Adrian's house


Test Pressing meets Adrian Sherwood

Growing up in 90s Russia

Coming October 6th

M Train is a journey through eighteen “stations.” It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself

The Apartments - Twenty One


I can just tell that this is going to be very high in the song o'the year charts come December here at Exile Towers

Teacher Calls Jacques Derrida’s College Admission Essay on Shakespeare 'Quite Incomprehensible' (1951)

Joni

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Lou Reed’s Sister Sets the Record Straight About His Childhood

Merrill Reed Weiner: A Family in Peril

Tuesday 14 April 2015

Ryan Adams and The Shining - Live @Coachella (12/4/15)


01. Let It Ride
02. Banter (Galaga)
03. Stay With Me
04. This House Is Not For Sale
05. Dirty Rain
06. Banter (Dirty Rain, Band Intros)
07. Blue Light
08. Magnolia Mountain
09. Banter (That's Music)
10. When the Stars Go Blue
11. Banter (17 Minute Guitar Solo)
12. Oh My Sweet Carolina
13. Banter (Thank You's)
14. Come Pick Me Up > Outro
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Man - Bananas (Live @The Roundhouse 12/76)


Here's a photo of one of my oldest friends, ex Fall manager Richard Thomas 'interviewing' Deke Leonard & Terry Williams at his Laugharne Festival last weekend. The session was filmed for BBC Wales so hopefully it will surface in the not too distant future
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John Barrymore and the Missing Alaskan Totem Pole

Would it ever return home?

Dabrye - This Is Where I Came In


Kick Ass!!


Oh FFS!

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Haitian DJ Fredly Rosilme's wooden DIY controller

Video

Tyler the Creator - Cherry Bomb (Albumstream)


Sunday 12 April 2015

Bettye Kronstad speaks for the first time about her marriage to Lou Reed: 'Fame is a fiend. It turns people into monsters'

Dave & Stewart Wise: The End of Music (1978)


I still have the 1983 edition of this but the link above is to the full original text. Review by Stewart Home here

Inside The Wild (And Hand-Drawn) World Of Bill Plympton

A Critical Hidden History of King Mob

Mark Stewart - As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts To Fade / The Resistance of the Cell / Hysteria (Ramsgate 10/4/15)






Mark Stewart, Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald and Friends, Live Mix by Adrian Sherwood. Voice offstage provided by Jenni BelleStar

Saturday 11 April 2015

Friday 10 April 2015

FIRST LOOK - True Detective: Season 2 (Tease)


True Detective starring Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch premieres June 2 (HBO)

Thursday 9 April 2015

Nick Cave: The Sick Bag Song (Denver)

Tuesday 7 April 2015

The Delines - He Don't Burn For Me + Interview

Monday 6 April 2015

Charlie Is My Darling: Ireland 1965 (Edited)

Wednesday 1 April 2015

Einstürzende Neubauten - Trinklied


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New footage

The winner of the 2015 April Fool's prank award goes to...


But you gotta love this one too, especially as people are still falling for it hours later