David Bowie by Brian Duffy - in pictures. Record Store Day – in pictures. Today is Record Store Day, the annual show for shops that, post-HMV, are the last bastion for furtive nimble-fingered folk. As ever, there are lots of unique releases in limited runs. For punk rockers, the Sex Pistols’ Pretty Vacant is out on seven-inch, while fans of rock greats in their 60s pomp can pick up See Emily Play by Pink Floyd; the Rolling Stones’ Five By Five EP; or David Bowie’s 1965! EP – all on seven-inch. The Beta Band see their Three EPs get vinyl reissues, as does Marianne Faithfull with Broken English.
The Walkmen’s first LP Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone finally gets a UK release, and is only out-moped by live LPs from Codeine and Built To Spill. More uplifting vibes come from Dinosaur L, whose disco classic Go Bang! A buyer's guide to seeking out the VG+ diamonds in the Record Store Day rough. Last Night in Twisted River, By John Irving - Reviews - Books. Repetition of all kinds is purely deliberate. Chapter one, in which a boy of 15 is swept to his death in a logging accident in Coos County, northern New Hampshire, in 1954, ends: "As for the river, it just kept moving, as rivers do – as rivers do.
Under the logs, the body of the young Canadian moved with the river, which jostled him to and fro – to and fro... " The following 550 pages sweep across 51 years, and the ripples of this unhappy accident wash against the lives of a handful of people who scarcely knew the young victim. The three men at the story's core are Ketchum, a crusty old logger, every inch the sort of hero you might find in the work of Cormac McCarthy, though here fully fleshed out; Dominic Baciagalupo, a kind-hearted chef with a limp and a secret; and Daniel, Dominic's son, 12 years old at the time of the accident and through whom we see the world shift from manual labour, through sexual and digital revolutions, to (almost) the present day. Tories pushing a song to praise Thatcher was actually a pisstake. In their rush to promote the single ‘I’m in love with Margaret Thatcher’ – Tories seem to be glossing over one crucial fact: the song is entirely a piss-take.
In fact it was never intended to appreciate Thatcher. The band – the Notsensibles – are not fans of Thatcher either. Well done Tories for giving some of your money to an anti-Thatcher song! David Osler summed it up… Notsensibles were a Burnley based punk band and wrote other similar pithy songs. ‘I’m In Love with Margaret Thatcher’ was released in 1980 to ‘celebrate’ her election victory. Meanwhile, Tories have also been spreading rubbish about the Ding-Dong song. BBC to play Ding Dong in chart show despite anti-Thatcher Facebook push | Media. The Wizard of Oz: Ding Dong..., credited to Judy Garland, is on course for a top five chart entry after a Facebook campaign by anti-Thatcher protesters.
Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/MGM BBC Radio 1 is planning to play Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead, the Wizard of Oz track being bought by anti-Thatcher protesters in the wake of the former prime minister's death, on its chart show on Sunday. However, in what is thought to be a first for the BBC chart show, the corporation is considering having a Newsbeat reporter explain why a song from the 30s is charting to Radio 1's target audience of 16- to 24-year-olds – none of whom will remember Margaret Thatcher's controversial premiership. In what could be seen as the first major test for the new director general, Tony Hall, BBC insiders said the track is likely to be played if it makes it into the top of the charts in defiance of criticism from Tory supporters.
The Official Charts Company said on Thursday morning that Ding Dong! Morrissey - Margaret On The Guillotine. Anti-Thatcher sentiment primed to sweep through singles charts. Stars including Geri Halliwell and Harry Styles have expressed their sadness, but others have been less sympathetic. Photograph: London Weekend Television/Rex Around 2,500 people have joined a Facebook campaign to celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher via the UK's singles charts. Anti-Thatcher activists hope to mark the occasion by sending Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead to No 1. This macabre campaign has been in the making for years: the first Facebook page proposing the idea was created in 2007.
On Monday, there were at least three groups soliciting readers to purchase Ding-Dong! Reading on mobile? Although musicians such as Geri Halliwell and Harry Styles expressed their sadness over Thatcher's passing, many others celebrated the former prime minister's death. Thatcher died on Monday after suffering a severe stroke. Brenton Wood Gimme A Little Sign. Tod Machover: how to crowdsource a symphony. The producer of 50 Nobel laureates, and the academic home of Tim Berners-Lee and Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is America's powerhouse of pioneering thinking.
One cold morning, as I step into the bright modern building that houses the research groups collectively known as the MIT Media Lab, I get a taste of some of the ideas brewed here: in the foyer is an exhibition featuring prosthetic running blades used by Paralympians, developed by the lab's biomechatronics group; there are visualisations of bikes that somehow appear to combine urban transportation with online dating. But what I have come to see is upstairs: a glass-sided room containing a grand piano, some vast metal sculptural objects dangling from the ceiling, and banks of screens.
This is a laboratory devoted to the music of tomorrow. The research group that works here is run by Tod Machover, a cellist and digital geek with a wiry mop of dark hair and a fast-talking manner. Double Six Records | Artists. 0 Items (£0.00) All We Are Bill Ryder-Jones Enlace Bill Wells Lemondale The Child of Lov George FitzGerald John Cale Jon Hopkins Small Memory - Tunng Remix King Creosote and Jon Hopkins Third Swan Malachai Petite Noir Spiritualized Hey Jane Steve Mason Am I Just A Man (MAH Session) TTTs You Wish You Were Red Twin Sister Bad Street © Double Six. About DoubleSix Contact Join our mailing list for updates, special events and upcoming gigs.
Bobby Gillespie: 'We always saw music as a revolutionary force' The other night Bobby Gillespie made a mistake – he turned on the TV and watched the Brits. "Who was that guy who won the awards? Ben Howard? " he asks, shaking his head in disbelief. "He looks like David Cameron! He looks like he shares the same stylist! Gillespie may have turned 50 last year, but his spirit doesn't seem to have aged with him. Gillespie's enduring fanaticism is in full effect from the second the Guardian arrives at the band's recording studio in Primrose Hill, north London, and he embarks on a guided tour of their recording space: past the vintage synths that have been with the band since the beginning ("How did they survive?
It's something of a miracle that Primal Scream have made it to album number 10 at all (breaking news: this band have done rather a lot of hard drugs in their time). As with all their best albums, from Screamadelica to Vanishing Point, More Light thrives on the fact they've worked with a stellar line-up of musicians. "A couple? " "Rocks? " The High and Lonesome Sound: The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb by John Cohen – review | Books | The Observer. In 1959, John Cohen, photographer, musician and musicologist, travelled to East Kentucky "to search for old music and to take photographs". He was listening to an elderly banjo player, Mary Jane Holcomb, on her front porch, when her stepson, "Rossie", sauntered by on his way home from work. "He had a thin body with a gait like Charlie Chaplin," writes Cohen, "She called him in, he tuned up a guitar and sang his song, Across the Rocky Mountain – and it made the hairs on my neck stand on end.
" Though they had little in common, Cohen and Holcomb became friends and this book is a testament to an often strange and stilted friendship. "We walked two paths simultaneously," writes Cohen, "and neither was truly visible to the other, nor close to the surface. " It is essentially a book of black-and-white photographs taken on Cohen's wanderings through East Kentucky in 1959, Virginia in 1961 and North Carolina in 1965.
Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review. Let us leave aside the 1960s for a moment, and acknowledge that for most people who came of age in the UK between the late 1970s and mid 1980s, mention of the word "Mod" should spark at least a few Proustian flashes. There may be memories of a local teenage gang clad in ex-army parkas, or perhaps a recollection of provincial discos always setting aside 15 minutes for a run of songs by the Jam. The more hard-bitten might be transported to the origin of habits that have never left them: the insistence that collars should always be buttoned-down, or a belief that lapels on a jacket must never exceed a certain width. In retrospect, one other thought might occur: that when a London-centred 60s cult was revived circa 1979 and its influence once again rippled through the culture, we saw the decisive stirrings of something now taken for granted – a pop culture that endlessly resurrects and recontextualises the past.
Uncertainty clouds both Mod's origins, and its legacy. The must-have piano? John Moore plays the Seaboard: 'Even in my hands it sounds pretty damn good.' Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Unless you have ever had to lift one, the piano is just about the perfect instrument. A machine for hitting tuned strings with soft hammers, pedals for expression, and not much else. Since its invention in the 18th century, it has changed relatively little – until now. Down a back alley in Hackney, east London, I glimpsed the future. Aesthetically, it is a strange beast; futuristic black, ultra-clean, with a keyboard made from black silicon – it looks as if it were beamed to Earth from a fetish club in the future.
I can imagine Herbie Hancock making a record with this, or a producer such as Tony Visconti, "always first on the line" with innovations. The Seaboard GRAND has a great deal going for it – premiering at SXSW in Austin Texas next week, it promises to upstage many of its more conventional rivals. 2012: Favorite 50 Albums of 2012 | Staff Feature | Tiny Mix Tapes | Page 1. In 2012, we were inundated: new artists, new labels, new microgenres, new ideas. A lot of these artists and labels were dropping releases so quickly (some weekly, some monthly) we could barely comprehend what was happening, let alone listen to them all, while journalists were scrambling to find new names for what was going on (doomstep, vaporwave, djent, hipster house, drill, etc.). It reached a point where there was an almost instinctual tendency to bracket any one-click genre creation as a temporary historical perversion: wait it out long enough, and the movement will either die or lose its cultural currency.
Add the bottomless wealth of SoundCloud streams, Bandcamp uploads, DatPiff mixtapes, and Mediafire links, as well as the slipstream methodology of our most prolific reptilian artists, and it began to appear like music, over time, has been and will beco increasingly fragmented. 50. Mykki BlancoCosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss [UNO NYC] Mykki Blanco • UNO NYC 49. 48. 47. 46.
Privilege by Parenthetical Girls reviews | Any Decent Music. 8.7 51585 8.7 | Paste Magazine Privilege (Abridged) takes on immediately recognizable appearances, but Pennington doesn’t just walk through each number; he partners with them, parading the words and music in and out of dynamic perspective Read Review 8.6 51580 8.6 | Bowlegs Fans of David Byrne and Xiu Xiu wouldn’t be disappointed by Privilege.
The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds sample of Steve Reich feat. Pat Metheny's Electric Counterpoint - Fast (Movement 3) Why Has Luke Haines Made An Album About Kendo Nagasaki And Catweazle? These five wrestlers from the golden age of British wrestling inspired my new album, but I still don't know why Catweazle was named after a kids TV wizard. Kendo's lambo Yo, grapple fans, those furry freaks at Sabotage Times have asked me to tell you about some of my favourite wrestlers, in honour of my new opus ‘Nine And A Half Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling Of The 1970s And Early ’80s’ (it’s self explanatory, really).
So, seconds out, here’s a top five in no particular order. Set the controls for the heart of Wolverhampton Civic Hall. ‘Exotic’ Adrian Street It all started with Street. Catweazle Why Doncaster born Gary Cooper chose to don the character of Catweazle – a popular early ’70s children’s TV wizard - like most things from the golden age of British wrestling (1965 -1979) defies all logic. The pain you would feel if you stepped in the ring with a man like Kendo would not merely be physical, you would be spiritually raped. ‘Gorgeous’ George Gillette Kendo Nagasaki. Star Turn On 45 (Pints).wmv. How we made: New Order's Gillian Gilbert and designer Peter Saville on Blue Monday. Armchair digital … New Order in 1986. Photograph: Steve Speller/Alamy Gillian Gilbert, synthesiser In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms.
So [New Order vocalist] Bernard Sumner started building these gadgets called sequencers. Next, we thought it would be good to create a song that was completely electronic. The synthesiser melody is slightly out of sync with the rhythm. Blue Monday was meant to be robotic, the idea being that we could walk on stage and do it without playing the instruments ourselves. Blue Monday is a dance track with a hint of melancholy. Reading this on mobile? Peter Saville, sleeve designer I met New Order in their Manchester studio to show them a postcard of the Henri Fantin-Latour flower painting I was using for the cover of their forthcoming album Power, Corruption and Lies. Peter Saville's Blue Monday cover I picked up an interesting object and asked: "Wow, what is this?
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