Tellus #10: All Guitars! (1985) available at Ubu Web.More info about this cassette can be found over at Vinyl Mine's entry.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
All Guitars!
Tellus #10: All Guitars! (1985) available at Ubu Web.More info about this cassette can be found over at Vinyl Mine's entry.
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Kim Gordon: come across
Kim Gordon... Untitled (2008, watercolor on paper). From the exhibition Kim Gordon: come across at KS Art in New York, NY. "...Kim Gordon is a founding member of New York legendary rock band Sonic Youth. She has been performing and recording with the band since its inception in the early 80s. In addition to releasing over 16 albums with Sonic Youth, Gordon has been involved in numerous collaborations with other artists and musicians. She has played guitar/vocals in the band Free Kitten alongside Julie Cafritz (ex-Pussy Galore) and Yoshimi (of the Boredoms and 00I00). In the early 90’s she co-formed the clothing label X Girl with Daisy von Furth. Throughout the eighties she wrote articles for Artforum, ZG and Real Life magazine among others. She continues to make artist books."
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Deep Voices: The Second Whale Record
If we can have Songs of the Mule - we sure can have songs by Humpback Whales!" ... One of the fascinating things mentioned by the liner notes is that humpback whales sing a different song every year and that they are the only animals to do so.
Note: A high-end audio system will be necessary to hear "Blues: Deep Voices" as the sounds recorded are too low to be heard normally which will explain why it seems that there is no sound on that track. ..."
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Deep Voices: The Second Whale Record is available thanks to A Closet of Curiosities.
Mules ad nauseum
What do Iggy Pop, Connie Francis, Spike Jones, Rod McKuen, and Half Japanese have in common? They’re all part of one of the most irritating compilations imaginable, entitled ”Songs of the Mule”. If you really must have it, you can find it here.
Yes, I know I've posted this image before, but how many damn mule pictures do you think I own??
The Reagan years
"Guitar-centric, lo-fi, art damaged squawking ditties recorded mid 1980s, some 4-tracked, some bouncing tracks between two cassette decks, some random guitar tunings, a few vocals, including the 18 minute guitars-on-the-table take on Beefheart's Trust Us. ..."boomp3.com
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WM Recordings present:
Phil Reavis - The Reagan years
Saturday, March 22, 2008
This Week's My New Favorite Band
Hey- I know you're all hipper than me and this is probably over for you all already, but there's seven (okay, maybe more, maybe less) deadly Finns, and they define the essence of ROCK (make gesture with clenched fist and flexed forearm). For me, their music transcends the gag, because their arrangements are so comprehensively perfect. Also the Elvis hubcap belt buckle, beehives, real russian balalaika players, skeleton minidresses, ubersquiffs, and african drummers don't hurt, either.
OFFICIAL SITE
Wikipedia provides the backstory (and in this case behaves like a music blog at the bottom)
Covering Uriah Heep's Easy Livin'
Covering Smoke on the Water
Sweet Home Alabama
If they ever come to the USA I'm a-goin'!
Sing Along With Basie
After the huge success of their first album “Sing a Song of Basie” in 1957, jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross recorded a second set of songs lyricizing the charts and solos of Count Basie’s band...this time backed by the Count himself.
“Sing Along With Basie”, which includes such standards as “Jumpin’ at the Woodside” “Every Tub” and “The King”, is a much harder album to find than the first….but you won’t have any trouble locating it if you click here.
Nobody in Town can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll like Mine
Well, I'm lying of course. I only bake ordinary bread. And I only do that on super special occasions (like when I'm broke).
But this powerful but pretty unknown (at least to me) blues/jazz singer is convincing. You better believe her when she's saying her Sweet Jelly Roll's are damned good.
Now, let Billie Poole, bake yourself a sweet Jelly Roll. You deserve it!
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But this powerful but pretty unknown (at least to me) blues/jazz singer is convincing. You better believe her when she's saying her Sweet Jelly Roll's are damned good.
Now, let Billie Poole, bake yourself a sweet Jelly Roll. You deserve it!
Added by ilbofilms
Friday, March 21, 2008
Those Mexican Hooligans!
Mexican Hooligans of the early 1960s seem considerably less hooligan-y than their US counterparts, judging by this video of the Mexi-pop group Los Hooligans.....
René Maltête
'Jeton'
Click image for better view at source.
The humoristique photographic art by René Maltête (via A Best Truth)
America by Air
"In 1930, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess after convincing Boeing Air Transport that the presence of women nurses would help relieve passenger fears of flying."And the project turned out to be a huge success. Men with an economy good enough to chose to be transported by air in the 1930s and 1940s proved her right. Stewardesses have a soothing and comforting effect.
Training groups and schools were set up - and the requirements soon were hard to live up to.
I wouldn't have made it. And I'm pretty girlish, service minded and long enough
Check out if you would have been stewardess material in the 1950s: Stewardess Requirements.
Experience more American airlines history at America by Air.
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