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here-now.org: "Without much radio play, and at one point without even a record label, the Chicago-based group has carved out a critically-acclaimed 10-year career that includes a Grammy award.
The new Wilco CD is a live recording called "Kicking Television," and on it you can hear the connection between the band and its fans
Wilco's leader is Jeff Tweedy and he is is starting a solo tour tonight in Vancouver. He recently joined us from the studios of WBEZ in Chicago." listen here
wnyc.org: "Nick Cave (of The Bad Seeds) tells us about writing the music and the screenplay for "The Proposition"--a new Western set in the Australian outback of the 1880s. He’s joined by director John Hillcoat." listen here
npr.org: "A collection of music from Afghanistan climbs to No. 12 on iTunes' World Music bestseller charts. Adam Gouttierre and Chris Becherer are two MBA students who recorded traditional music during a trip to Afghanistan and distributed it online." listen here
billboard.com "Like the 309," the last song written by Johnny Cash before his death, will be included on "American V: A Hundred Highways." Due July 4 via American Recordings/Lost Highway, the album was recorded with producer Rick Rubin in the months leading up to Cash's September 2003 passing.
"These songs are Johnny's final statement," Rubin says. "They are the truest reflection of the music that was central to his life at the time. This is the music that Johnny wanted us to hear." More
Personal File
A trove of sparse solo recordings Cash made in the 1970s will be released May 23 via Columbia/Legacy under the heading "Personal File". Amidst ephemera of all sorts stored in a room behind his recording studio, Johnny Cash kept hundreds of tapes. Within that trove was a set marked "Personal File," which turned out to be a pot of gold.
These solo recordings, made mostly in the 1970s, find the country music icon performing everything from what producer Greg Geller describes as "late-19th century parlour ballads to mid-20th century country hits ... songs inspired by recent events and experiences ... songs of faith and inspiration." More
Politische Gefahr Faschismus
dradio.de: "Der amerikanische Historiker Robert O. Paxton analysiert in Anatomie des Faschismus das Phänomen der politischen Kraft des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine Studie beschreibt den komplexen historischen Werdegang des Faschismus in europäischen Ländern und welche Gefahr heute von ihm ausgeht. Sie besticht durch die souveräne Durchdringung einer riesigen Stoffmasse." Weiter oder bei Amazon bestellen
Kulturkampf gegen Microsoft
dradio.de: "In der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Microsoft und der EU-Kommission geht es um mehr als nur um Fragen des Wettbewerbs. Es geht um Freiheit, wie die Kritiker des Softwaregiganten sagen. Denn das Unternehmen beherrsche die Kulturtechnik Software." Weiter
greylodge.org: "Hamburg, 1983. F.M. is a youngster leading an idle urban life, totally alienated from his environment, and only active when making “sound experiments” in his home studio. [...]
One day F.M. suddenly wakes up to the surrounding reality, as he notices how the inconspicuous background music at a hamburger joint may have some connection with the junk food. It dawns on him that muzak is designed to control and brainwash the masses, not unlike lobotomy. On top of its paralysing effects, muzak is also laced with subliminal messages. F.M. decides to go back to the bar and records the muzak for his own purposes. He starts to develop a form of “anti-muzak” in his studio, by playing the original material backwards, or at a wrong speed, or by mixing it with interfering factors like sounds of street riots or squealing frogs.
In a dream of his F.M. receives support for his one-man war from an old shopkeeper (William Burroughs) selling electronics spare parts. He gives F.M. a disassembled cassette with the advice “This is all you need!” While wandering around the city, F.M. runs into members of a shady cult, “the pirates”, who have taken over an abandoned building in order to practice their nocturnal rituals of “black noise”. The core of their high priest’s (Genesis P-Orridge) message is: “Information is like a bank. Some of us are rich, while others are poor. It is our mission to rob that bank…” F.M. and the pirates decide to co-operate. They perform terrorist attacks in Burger Kings and McDonalds, armed with cassette players and anti-muzak." More
The cast includes:
FM Einheit (of Einstürzende Neubauten)
William S. Burroughs
Genesis P-Orridge
Alexander Hacke
orchestra-of-bubbles.com: "While Apparat used to stand for an algorithms-based aesthetics and Ellen Allien fathomed the possible heights and depths of the dance floor widthways as well, for their joint production they dabble in a principle which electronic music is dedicated to from the very beginning and which is now only spelled differently: Contingency. Meaning, Ellen Allien and Apparat indeed take on the connections between Techno and IDM, but extend the original horizon with their thoughtful way of production where they interpenetrate, empathise and move their own artistic borders." More
An Weltuntergänge gewöhnt man sich dradio.de: "Der 28-jährige Elias erlebt Enttäuschung auf Enttäuschung, sein Leben liegt in Scherben. Dafür hat er aber einige Erkenntnisse über sich selbst und die Scheinwelt, in der er lebte, gewonnen. Der 30-jährige Autor Martin Page ist mit diesem Roman einer Desillusionierung in Frankreich sehr erfolgreich. Er wirkt wie ein Sprecher derjenigen, die dort gerade gegen die Aufhebung des Kündigungsschutzes demonstrieren." Weiter
The Cocka Hola Company tonspion.de: "Wo Houellebecq aufhört, fängt Matias Faldbakken erst an. Selten hat ein Buch über die Abgründe der Konsensgesellschaft in Skandinavien und Deutschland derart für Aufsehen gesorgt. Denn Feldbakken ist beißend, drastisch und dabei extrem gut gelaunt." Weiter
plusminus.ru: "The size of the device changes depending on the amount of data it holds.
When the device is about to blow up you will see the familiar error message on your screen: "There is not enough free space".
When swithched off the flashbag remains pumped up, so you can estimate with the naked eye how much more pics, books and music albums can be transferred into it." more info
Animal Collective shows are now beeing hosted at archive.org!
allmusic.com: "In 2000, in New York City, Avey Tare (aka David Porter) and Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) established Animal Collective with the issue of Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished on their own Animal imprint. It was the first of a flurry of captivating, occasionally frustrating releases exploring the fringes and intersecting boundaries of folk, noise rock, ambient drone, twisted psychedelia, and, ultimately, pure melody." More
wikipedia.org: "Tine Plesch (* 1959 in Nürnberg; † 4. November 2004) war eine deutsche Musikjournalistin und feministische Autorin.
Sie beschäftigte sich schwerpunktmäßig mit dem Thema Gender in der Popkultur. Tine Plesch war Mitherausgeberin der Zeitschrift Testcard – Beiträge zur Popkultur und Radiojournalistin beim freien Radio Z in Nürnberg. [...] Seit 1999 war sie Mitherausgeberin von "testcard – Beiträge zur Popgeschichte". Im Lauf der Jahre diverse freie journalistische Tätigkeiten, sie arbeitet u.a. für die Abendzeitung Nürnberg, Melodiva, Superstar, Jazzthetik, junge Welt, Raumzeit, Yot-Infozine, Intro.
Sie war eine gefragte Sprecherin bei Fachveranstaltungen zu Frauen und Musik. So war sie u.a. mit ihren Vorträgen beim Musikerinnensymposium des Frauenmusikzentrums Hamburg, der Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, dem Frauenreferat des Asta Münster, dem Radiocamp Bodensee (jährliches Treffen der freien Radios aus der BRD), mit Christiane Erharter bei der Reihe R4 Zoom, der Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck: „Elektronische Musik und weibliche Repräsentation“, zur Gesprächsleitung im Roundtable „Utopien/Dystopien in der elektronischen Musik“ bei Musik Didactique, Zürich eingeladen worden.
Sie verstarb an den Folgen eines septischen Schocks." Mehr
wnyc.org: "Within two years, three of the most important people in Rosanne Cash’s life died: her mother, her father Johnny Cash, and her step-mother June Carter Cash. Today, she performs songs from Black Cadillac--the album she wrote about losing them. She's joined by her husband (and longtime co-producer and co-writer) John Leventhal." Listen here
wnyc.org: "David Byrne and Brian Eno are reissuing their classic 1981 collaboration "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" with a twist. The musicians are inviting fans to edit, remix & sample two tracks from the album. We’ll look at that experiment and talk with a forensic musicologist on the legal ramifications of sampling." Listen here
ON THE COVER: AGF: Word processing in Berlin with polystylistic laptopper and digital 'poemproducer', Antye Greie. By Keith Moliné FEATURES: Scott Walker, Conrad Schnitzler, Ryoji Ikeda, Invisible Jukebox: William Parker, Scatter, Mattin, David Rothenberg
Download tracks from Basque Improv-punk Mattin.
View a video clip of excerpts of live performances from the Fonal Records tour featuring Kiila, Islaja and Es.
Download exclusive tracks from clarinettist and twitcher David Rothenberg.
Download an exclusive mixed excerpt from 8 of the 20 transmitters along Graeme Miller's Linked soundwork.
Listen to a track from Michael Gordon's new album Light Is Calling preview ing his upcoming tour.
npr.org: "As part of The Long View series of conversations on Morning Edition, author Kevin Phillips talks with Steve Inskeep about the influence of the oil industry.
Phillips is a former aide to Nixon whose new book American Theocracy examines the emerging Republican majority and where it is taking America. He also wrote The Emerging Republican Majority in 1969." Listen here
forcedexposure.com: "Somewhere between electronic noise, drone and psychedelic rock, you will find the Brooklyn duo, Mouthus, coiled and ready to strike. his album is a return to more abrasive and heavy Mouthus territory after forays into acoustic instrumentation and, yes, a Fleetwood Mac cover on their recent Troubleman full-length. Free/tribal percussion spatter 'n clatter duels with endlessly mutating three chord sludge-riffage beneath thick, poison clouds of delayed-out vocal groan. Truly CHOCK full of manic bad-mood energy but maybe psych-droney and resin-soaked enough for the new crop of crunchier noise-heads to nod to as well. Electric guitars strung with duct tape and drums equipped with hundred-year old heads are jettisoned into deep space and dynamited, combusting so vividly that the after-images soak our retinas with mandalas of interwoven earthworms and beer funnels for hours afterwards"
greylodge.org: "Hamburg, 1983. F.M. is a youngster leading an idle urban life, totally alienated from his environment, and only active when making “sound experiments” in his home studio. [...]
dradio.de: "Der 28-jährige Elias erlebt Enttäuschung auf Enttäuschung, sein Leben liegt in Scherben. Dafür hat er aber einige Erkenntnisse über sich selbst und die Scheinwelt, in der er lebte, gewonnen. Der 30-jährige Autor Martin Page ist mit diesem Roman einer Desillusionierung in Frankreich sehr erfolgreich. Er wirkt wie ein Sprecher derjenigen, die dort gerade gegen die Aufhebung des Kündigungsschutzes demonstrieren." 
tonspion.de: "Wo Houellebecq aufhört, fängt Matias Faldbakken erst an. Selten hat ein Buch über die Abgründe der Konsensgesellschaft in Skandinavien und Deutschland derart für Aufsehen gesorgt. Denn Feldbakken ist beißend, drastisch und dabei extrem gut gelaunt." 
plusminus.ru: "The size of the device changes depending on the amount of data it holds.