Sunday 25 September 2016

Steve Kilbey joins Gina Williams to sing Under The Milky Way in Noongar language (Video)

Steve Schapiro: David Bowie (1975)

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The Making of David Bowie's Lost Soul Album

The Big Data Jukebox

Saturday 24 September 2016

Assisted death: the debate that simply refuses to die quietly

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‘Bear: The Life and Times Of Augustus Owsley Stanley III’ Biography Due In November

Fascists can be fugn hilarious at times

The Virtues of Nuclear Ignorance

Deeyah Khan: JIHAD


The world has watched aghast as thousands of young men and women abandon comfortable lives in the West to join the barbaric ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). Girls and boys have gone rapidly from being apparently well-adjusted school kids, to enthusiastically joining the ranks of Kalashnikov-wielding religious warriors and burkah-clad “jihadi brides”. It feels like a new and frightening phenomenon, one which has left many feeling bewildered and revulsed.
But as this new documentary film by Emmy Award winning director Deeyah Khan shows, Westerners embracing jihad and death is nothing new. For three generations now, young people across Europe have fallen prey to extremist groups and fought, killed and died with mujahideen movements from Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Kashmir, to Chechnya and Burma.
In this film, Deeyah, who has herself faced threats from extremist fundamentalists in the past, sets out to find out why the jihadi message has such an alluring hold on young Westerners.
First, she went back to the roots, spending two years with some of the leading figures in the British jihadi movement from previous generations. She secured unprecedentedly emotional and raw testimony from former extremists, learning from the inside what it is like to be drawn into radicalism, to have your life ruined by extremism and violence, a message which has continued appeal cascading down through the generations.
In JIHAD, Deeyah meets one of the founding fathers of the British jihad, who went abroad to fight, and who preached extremism to thousands of young Muslims across the UK and the West.
Deeyah’s search for answers then takes her to the streets of modern Britain, meeting today’s young Muslims, caught between extremism and the War on Terror.  She meets young British Muslims who feel angry and alienated, facing issues of discrimination, identity crises and rejection by both mainstream society and their own communities and families; but in surprising moments of insight and enlightenment, she also finds hope and some possible answers to the complex situation we are currently in

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1966 VS 1971: When 'Rock 'n' Roll' Became 'Rock' And What We Lost

Jon Savage on living through punk, the 70s, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Stranglers, why he doesn’t like parties on boats and Brexit


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Some may remember this from the (Son of) days

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Henry Rollins: Backroom Bigotry Is Now Out in the Open

Here in beautiful Australia, there is talk of conducting a plebiscite (basically, what USA would call a referendum vote) to ask the electorate if they are in favor of marriage equality. To ask this ridiculous question could cost upward of A$160 million. It was surprising to learn about this when I got here two weeks ago. Australia doesn’t seem like the kind of place to get bogged down in something so mean-spirited and small-minded

Investigating Scientology in Australia

Friday 23 September 2016

Is it possible to be addicted to sexting?

Jolene


I Used to Be a Human Being

Thursday 22 September 2016

If You Vote For Trump, Then Screw You

Shirley Collins - Death And The Lady



America, please do not elect the orange Skittle

Leonard Cohen Was Right: Songs & Years Of Wisdom Examined

There's a new souper hero in town

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Wednesday 21 September 2016

The Philippines' drug addicts, shunned by society and hunted by assassins, find they have nowhere to turn

The Bug makes a move


Trump Is Everything I Was Taught Not to Be

...and so the respectful debate begins

The Undertones - Get Over You (Kevin Shields Remix)

This is how fascism comes to America

Tuesday 20 September 2016

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WTF?


Baader Meinhof: In Love With Terror



Alan Moore knows the score

If you believe in democracy as something other than a vending machine dispensing several slightly different flavours of privilege, then you should put all of your mind and all of your muscle into supporting someone who offers a future that ordinary people could actually live in

Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen - Hard Times


Monday 19 September 2016


VOTE

bvdub - Yours are Stories of Sadness


True story...
In 2012, I was singing karaoke in the lavish VIP suite of the most opulent bar of Shaoxing. Hours in, at the height of drunken revelry, suddenly, literally out of nowhere, one of the hired girls walked over to me from the other end of the room, and whispered in my ear:
"When I saw you walk in, I knew yours was a story of sadness."
These are flashes of memories from that time... broken fragments, and spaces in-between... each a portrait of instances I have remembered that moment, each its own place and time. Every time I remembered that moment in the years that followed, I made a brief tribute to the beginnings of that realization, and the starting point for my mental wanderings that followed... putting that initial realization to sound, before going the rest of the journey in my own head.
Unlike all my other works which are meant to be in the foreground, these are meant to stay in the shadows... to be the quiet and subconscious soundtrack... each not a story, but just a moment... that moment you realize. Unlike the norm, when I elucidate every second to near unbearable levels ;), this time how that moment materializes or continues is up to you...
As a result, they are, for the first time, unnamed... to let each take on its own meaning, and its own fabric in both my story and yours...
4 years later, these were the 19 times I remembered that moment... they will surely not be the last

Sunday 18 September 2016

The 100 Club Punk Festival 1976 (Revisited)

ABBA shreds