Sonic Youth was one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were fairly conventional in terms of song-structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance-art aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant garde, Sonic Youth redefined what noise meant within rock & roll. More
Don't forget! As every year, Radio Borderline will play the TOP 50 CDs from the WIRE Magazine.
Mo 05/01 The Wire 50 Records Of The Year 2003, Part 1
Mo 12/01 The Wire 50 Records Of The Year 2003, Part 2
Mo 19/01 The Wire 50 Records Of The Year 2003, Part 3
Mo 26/01 The Wire 50 Records Of The Year 2003, Part 4
Mo 02/02 The Wire 50 Records Of The Year 2003, Part 5
Eigentlich bin ich ein riesen Fan von Weblogs, sonst hätt' ich ja kein eigenes. Wie ich nun darauf komme mal meine eigene Meinung zu schreiben und nicht wie üblicherweise nur cut'n paste? Ein Blog welches bei Blogawards eine Auszeichnung erhielt !
Also wenn ich mal ein Blog nicht mag, dann aus folgenden Gründen:
Was ich gar nicht mag, sind Weglogs ohne erkennbare inhaltliche Struktur, Blogs mit willenlos angehäuften Links. Am besten noch Links zu Artikel auf der Startseite vom Spiegel. So nach dem Motto, "hey Leute, schon gehört ? Sie haben den Saddam geschnappt ! Steht sogar auf der Spiegel Startseite !".
Natürlich gibt's auch Blogs ohne zentrales Thema, sind dann trotzdem interessant, jemand schreibt lustig und interessant über den eigenen Alltag, siehe www.nosexinthecity.de oder bringt einfach seine Gedanken nieder, siehe www.argh.de.
OK, was mag ich noch nicht? Ach ja wenn die Beiträge, wirklich unter jedem Niveau sind. Hier aktuelle Beiträge eines Weblogs, mit Award !
Pissen im Büro
Gerenderte Japan-Schnitten
Clooney wieder solo
Neues zum Diana-Unfall
Links aus anderen Weblogs zu übernehmen, ohne dann einen "Backlink" zu setzten, find' ich auch furchtbar. Natürlich kann man das auch mal vergessen, klar.
Dann gibt's noch Weblogs die erschlagen einen förmlich wenn man sie zum ersten mal sieht. Rechts und links der eigentlichen Artikel noch mal tausende Links, Menues, Banner... furchtbar. Weblogs die das alles NICHT haben und somit irgendwie "schön" sind:
Das eigentlich Schlimme an diesen überladenen Seiten ist, das der Programmierer/Gestalter ein gewisses Maß an HTML Kenntnissen haben muss, allerdings keine Ahnung von Usability, oder schlicht gutem Design hat.
Nun das Blog welches mich so aufregt, hat eine Auszeichnung erhalten. Demzufolge muss es wohl genug Leute geben denen es gefällt. Nun...über Geschmack lässt sich eben streiten und besagtes Blog ist eben nicht mein Geschmack.
One of the biggest downloads ever ! If you're going to download all those sets, you will need ~1,5GB of harddiscspace. Those live sets are most of the performances on Ultrahang Fest.
Abstract Monarchy Quartet 60MB
AGF 55MB More Info Andrey Kiritchenko 48MB More Info Abstract Monarchy Quartet 55MB
Dwayne Sodahberk 61MB More Info Alejandra and Aeron 21MB More Info FON 37MB More Info Sheriff 71MB
Kid606 95MB More Info Belgradeyard Sound System 128MB More Info Fluidum 70MB
nevertheless, I was able to work my 12h shift today :-(
That's not all folks, my girlfriend is visiting her parents for a few days, so I am alone for christmas :-[
To summerise, today at Christmas, I am :
ill
alone
tired from working
Yesterday when I was allready alone, I spend my time on some big questions which are allready for a long time on my mind:
Question One:
"There's an old folk warning that if you throw a frog in boiling water he will quickly jump out. But if you put a frog in a pan of cold water and raise the temperature ever so slowly, the gradual warming will make the frog doze happily . . . in fact, the frog will eventually cook to death, without ever waking up." The answer, in english or german
Question Two:
"The jolly old Santa Claus that we know from countless images did not come from folklore, nor did he originate in the imaginations of Moore and Nast. He comes from the yearly advertisements of the Coca-Cola Company. He wears the corporate colors — the famous red and white — for a reason: he is working out of Atlanta, not out of the North Pole." The answer
Brooklyn-based guitarist/pianist/vocalist David Grubbs made a major impact on the indie music scene during a ten-year residence in Chicago. Originally hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, he was a member of Bastro, and Squirrel Bait before teaming up with Jim O'Rourke in Gastr del Sol. That band issued a number of critically acclaimed albums in the mid-'90s before O'Rourke split to pursue solo projects and focus on his Drag City boutique label Moikai. More
VIDEO GAME CULTURE HAS LONG RELIED ON "CRACKERS," THE FEARLESS GEEKS WHO REMOVE A GAME'S COPY PROTECTION THROUGH BRUTE FORCE. CRACKERS OFTEN LEAVE BEHIND MODIFIED START-UP SCREENS AS EVIDENCE OF THEIR TRADE. THIS SPECIAL CRACKER GRAFFITI BOTH DOCUMENTS THE INTRUSION AND PROVIDES A PLATFORM TO SHOWCASE THE CRACKER'S SKILLS.
"LOW LEVEL ALL-STARS" SHOWCASES THE BEST CRACKER TAGS SELECTED FROM OVER 1000 GAMES AVAILABLE FOR THE COMMODORE 64 COMPUTER. ALL CRACKER TAGS HAVE BEEN RE-CRACKED BY BEIGE AND RSG AND EXTRACTED AS STAND-ALONE COMMODORE ANIMATIONS. YOU MAY WATCH A VIDEO CLIP DOCUMENTING EACH PIECE, OR VIEW STILL IMAGES. ROMS WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON FROM THIS SITE. ALL DOCUMENTATION WAS MADE DIRECTLY FROM THE C64 WITH NO COMPUTER EMULATION. Download them here
Richard Hell was one of the original punk rockers to emerge from New York City in the early to mid-'70s, and is often pointed to as a major influence by other subsequent punk bands -- whether it be with his music, poetry, or even fashion sense (he was one of the first punks to wear ripped clothing). Born Richard Meyers in October 2, 1949, and raised in Lexington, KY, Meyers discovered rock & roll via the usual suspects (Rolling Stones, etc.), and befriended another local music fan, Tom Miller. More
Larsen is a mysterious experimental rock band from Torino, Italy. In and around 2000, the quartet began wheedling artist, label head, and producer Michael Gira by sending him a series of bizarrely packaged CDRs on the 1st and 21st of each month. After the packages stopped arriving, Gira received a letter informing him of his mission: Told to arrive in Torino on the first of the following month, Gira was to spend 21 days producing the band and would return home on the 22nd. Enclosed with the letter was a round-trip flight to Italy and an advance payment. Interested due to the unique circumstances, as well as the recordings he had been sent, Gira obliged. More
Bin gerade die Homepage des Medienturm.at am abgrassen. Sehr viele schöne Links und Artikel !
Dort bin auf ein kleines Artikelchen zur Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung gestoßen. Jeder der sich halbwegs für Zeitgeschichte interessiert, kommt dort wirklich günstig an feine Bücher. Kostenpunkt: ca. 2€ pro Buch + Porto. Die gleichen Bücher kosten im Laden ca. 10€ !
Ich bin zum ersten mal auf die BPB vor ein paar Jahren gestoßen worden. Damals wollte ich noch Lehrer werden und mein damaliger Geschichtsdozent hielt uns an, dort die Bücher für das Seminar zu kaufen. Damals waren die Bücher sogar noch umsonst, allerdings durfte man nur drei im Jahr kaufen. Neben Büchern sind unter anderm noch CD-ROMs und Zeitschriften zu beziehen.
NewMusicJukebox is the online library and listening room that provides immediate access to scores, streaming audio, and vital information about music by American composers.
Updated daily by the composers and publishers themselves, NewMusicJukebox is a continually growing resource designed to meet the needs of today's new-music community.
The lives of jazz musicians as portrayed in many popular films would have most people believing that the hard-living of someone like Charlie Parker is representative of most persons working in this particular line of cultural expression and endeavor. Seeking to go beyond this misguided stereotype, this interesting document produced by the National Endowment for the Arts (with the assistance of numerous other groups such as the Packard Foundation and the Grammy Foundation) takes a broad look at the worklife of jazz musicians in several major metropolitan areas in the U.S., including New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco. As the introduction to the work suggests, "This study provided an opportunity to examine the working lives of jazz musicians in a systematic way and to produce quantitative and qualitative information about the jazz community, the professional lives of jazz musicians, and the place of jazz in the music industry." Conducted under the direction of Joan Jeffri (director of the Research Center for Arts and Culture at Columbia University's Teachers College), the document contains sections on the demographics of the study group, information about the nature of touring as a component of their work, and comments from study participants.
From the LA Times:
In a nod to the popularity of CD burners, Apple Computer Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s Reprise Records label today will begin marketing blank "Lord of the Rings"-themed CDs.
The companies are aiming for fans to purchase the CD and use it to store a digital copy of the film soundtrack bought online.
[...]Label executives said the practice had become so mainstream that it made sense to try incorporating it into their business.
"We want to adapt to the consumer habit," said Robin Bechtel, chief of new media for Warner Bros. Records and Reprise Records. "For a while, this has been the next logical step." [...]
While searching for tracks by "Wolf Eyes", I came across the homepage of BSR88.1. This radio station seems to offer a big spectra of music. They seem to offer the last 7 shows in theire archive. here is a nice one I found, but I didn't listend it yet.
luke vibert - liptones
plaid - euca spring
boards of canada - 1969
boards of canada - basefree
anti-pop consortium - ping pong
luke vibert - freaktimebaby
beans - sickle cell hysteria
anti-pop consortium - ghostlawns(mike ladd mix)
broadcast - minus two
brothomstates - kivesq
Michigan-natives Nathen Young and Aaron Dilloway formed the experimental electronic outfit Wolf Eyes in early 1998. Young, who builds most of the band's equipment and sings vocals, along with guitarist and tape manipulator Dilloway, had a past with groups like Ann Arbor's no wave supergroup Couch and electronic guru Nautical Almanac. More
Yesterday I saw "Return of the King". I don't like it very much. One of facts why I don't like it is, that the good guys are tall and handsome, and they are the good guys, because they are humans, the bad guys are ugly, have a black skin and dreadlocks. The bad guys are bad, because they are orks.
According to "lord of the rings" behavior is determinated by race.
Today I found an article, which made me realise, that I am not the only one thinking like that about the movie.
"The group was filmed in Northampton, Mass at the Pearl Street nightclub. The documentary ends at 22 minutes, but, for people who enjoy the occasional last "bonus" song, there's something extra special waiting this time." More
Sonic Youth was one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were fairly conventional in terms of song-structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance-art aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant garde, Sonic Youth redefined what noise meant within rock & roll. 
Brooklyn-based guitarist/pianist/vocalist David Grubbs made a major impact on the indie music scene during a ten-year residence in Chicago. Originally hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, he was a member of Bastro, and Squirrel Bait before teaming up with Jim O'Rourke in Gastr del Sol. That band issued a number of critically acclaimed albums in the mid-'90s before O'Rourke split to pursue solo projects and focus on his Drag City boutique label Moikai. 
Richard Hell was one of the original punk rockers to emerge from New York City in the early to mid-'70s, and is often pointed to as a major influence by other subsequent punk bands -- whether it be with his music, poetry, or even fashion sense (he was one of the first punks to wear ripped clothing). Born Richard Meyers in October 2, 1949, and raised in Lexington, KY, Meyers discovered rock & roll via the usual suspects (Rolling Stones, etc.), and befriended another local music fan, Tom Miller. 
