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You may now pre-order Brad Laner: Natural Selections LP
08.03.2010
09:18 pm
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Sayeth my fine imprint Hometapes:

Today is the first day of the rest of your summer. We’re giving you a free song to celebrate. A soundtrack to start your car to, to wring out your towel to, to take a walk to tonight. Brad Laner’s new album Natural Selections comes out August 24. The packaging is at the Hometapes house. The green vinyl is on the truck. I thought I couldn’t be hypnotized by this record any further, any deeper, but my heart just jumped, primally, with the first drum hit of “Eyes Close.” Damn, this is good. You can pre-order the record now and we’ll ship it out to you by, or likely before, that magical August day when Natural Selections belongs to everybody.

Aww, flattery will get you everywhere ! Please do make sure to download the mp3, especially if you grabbed the one from last week which was the wrong mix. oops !
 

 

Posted by Brad Laner
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08.03.2010
09:18 pm
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The Rutles return with ‘Lunch’!
08.03.2010
08:22 pm
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Baby, you’re a rich man, and goo goo ga joob, but all you need is Lunch: If you happen to be a fan of The Rutles, the “Prefab Four” created by Monty Python’s Eric Idle and Neil Innes of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band there will be much smileage with this clever fan-made megamix parody of the Beatles/Cirque du Soleil mash-ups created by George and Giles Martin. Dangerous Minds pal Paul Gallagher has the scoop on his Planet Paul blog:

After ‘Monty Pyhon’s Flying Circus‘, Eric Idle went on to write and star in one of TV’s lost comedy classics, ‘Rutland Weekend Television‘.  The series co-starred Neil Innes, Henry Woolf, Gwen Taylor and David Battley, and ran for two series over 1975 and 1976.  ’RWT’ was required viewing for a generation of impressionable youngsters, myself included, who had arrived late to ‘Python’ and were just at the right age to enjoy the brilliance of Idle, Innes et al.

For me, ‘Rutland Weekend Television‘ was better than ‘Python‘, as it was edgier, closer to Spike Milligan‘s ‘Q‘ series and all the better for being mainly one man’s vision.  Now ‘RWT‘ is best known for unleashing The Rutles: Ron, Dirk, Stig and Barry, the original Prefab Four, who first appeared in a comic musical homage to The Beatles’ ‘Hard Day’s Night’ and then later in 1977, through Idle’s and Innes’ genius collaboration with ‘Saturday Night Live’ producer, Lorne Michaels, in the brilliant mockumentary ‘All You Need Is Cash‘.

Now, over 30 years later, The Rutles return with ‘Lunch‘, one fan’s brilliant musical celebration of Idle’s and Innes’ original concept.  ’Lunch‘ owes much to the Cirque du Soleil’s show ‘Love‘, which was based on a cycle of Beatle songs, and even claims to be a collaboration bewteen Rutle Stig O’Hara and Circle of Hay’s founder, Captain Liberty.

Have a listen and hear how Rutlemania brought joy and laughter to the world, and made The Prefab Four wider than Elvis and taller than The Beatles.  Enjoy.

 
The Official Lunch webpage

Posted by Richard Metzger
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08.03.2010
08:22 pm
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Rare Rolling Stones footage : Australia 1966
08.03.2010
05:50 pm
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The Stones in Sydney Australia, 1966. Photo: Colin Beard
 
Here’s some rare footage of The Stones performing ‘Get Off My Cloud’ and ‘19th Nervous Breakdown’ on Australian television show ‘Bandstand’ - February 17, 1966.

Interesting fashion choices: Mick in a polo shirt, Keith and Bill in matching suits.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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08.03.2010
05:50 pm
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Claudine Longet is just a Jealous Guy
08.03.2010
05:10 pm
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Tying together a couple of DM memes, here is notorious chanteuse Claudine Longet doing an interesting thing by combining two John Lennon tunes to a predictably charming outcome. Rather chilling lyrically considering her conviction a few years later for misdemeanor negligent homicide. She didn’t mean to hurt you!
 

 
The Rolling Stones found the saga of Claudine…

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Posted by Brad Laner
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08.03.2010
05:10 pm
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H1N1 Flu rapper has new hip hop hit with ‘The Gap Rap’
08.03.2010
03:44 pm
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Dr. John Clarke stars in a public service video he produced called “The Gap Rap.”

Apparently there’s a problem at Long Island Railroad stations with people falling into the gap between the train and the platform. So, Dr. Clarke decided to create his ‘health hop’ video.
 

Dr. Clarke, who captured wide media attention for his H1N1 Flu Rap,was enthusiastic about his new video, “I recognize that gap accidents are quite preventable. I knew that Health-Hop would be a perfect way to spread the message and make an impact.”

Upcoming ‘health hop’ projects for Dr. Clarke : Aids, Global Warming and Lindsay Lohan.

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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08.03.2010
03:44 pm
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Mesmerizing HD marine life: MORPHOLOGIC
08.03.2010
03:36 pm
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Marcocoeloma trispinosum decorator crab with Zoanthus sp. polyps
 
Here’s some absolutely stunning and hypnotic HD videos from a marine art collective called MORPHOLOGIC. It’s true color-pallet-bliss.

MORPHOLOGIC is a scientific art endeavor led by marine biologist Colin Foord and musician Jared McKay. With the aquarium as our primary medium, we explore the artistic possibilities of living coral reef organisms via HD vi and site-specific artworks.

Our laboratory/studio is a state certified aquaculture facility perpetuating marine life within the confines of downtown Miami. Working in conjunction with biologists from the Université de Provence in Marseille, France, we are developing a living genetic database, aquaculture techniques, and biological assays of coral species.

Sit back, relax and let the beauty sooth ya.

 

 
More marine gorgeousness after the jump…

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Posted by Tara McGinley
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08.03.2010
03:36 pm
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Evolution at its finest: Guy gets hit by ice cream truck
08.03.2010
11:58 am
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“Oh shit” is right! I hope this guy made it out unharmed.
 
(via reddit)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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08.03.2010
11:58 am
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Autolux: Transit Transit
08.03.2010
11:49 am
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The new LP, Transit Transit by the highly creative Los Angeles band Autolux is released today, a mere 6 years after their superb debut LP Future Perfect. Like most bands these days, Autolux wear their influences clearly on their sleeves but they do so in such tasteful and pleasant ways, you won’t mind a bit. Here’s a clip of the band playing a tune from the new album :
 

 
And a couple more atmospheric tracks from the album after the jump…

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Posted by Brad Laner
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08.03.2010
11:49 am
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‘Stormin’ The Gates of Hell’ : the rock and roll apocalypse of Pastor Steve Winter
08.03.2010
03:03 am
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WinterBand  are an Apostolic Pentecostal rock group led by a ZZ Top-looking religious zealot and badass named Steve Winter. A fire and brimstone nutjob with a beard more flammable than a Rhode Island nightclub, Winter makes Jimmy Swaggart seem like the voice of reason. His hatefilled diatribes against other religious sects, his extreme and bizarre views on Christian doctrine, his appalling attitude toward women, his dozens of wacky Internet sites, and numerous lawsuits against anyone who questions his legitimacy as a religious prophet, portray a man who is operating in the void left by Jim Jones, David Koresh and Marshall Applewhite (Heaven’s Gate cult). Within the Pentecostal community, Winter has accrued an enemies list so long it makes Nixon’s look like a haiku.

Visit his website and you’ll get a glimpse into the brain of one angry and ugly Bible thumper, seething with self-righteous disdain for virtually every sentient being on the planet.

Winter’s a third-rate hustler, a pious Three-card Monte player on the backstreets of holy salvation. The Steve Winter FAQ provides an interesting insight to the nature of his internet spamming and scamming. Google the dude. He’s everywhere, even appearing on religious-themed dating websites.

Clearly, this guy gives me the creeps and that’s why I find him so compelling. His particular strain of holier-than-thou sermonizing coupled with shitty apocalyptic hard rock is far more doom-laden than most Christian rock. His 70s style riffage and uber right wing politics make him the perfect opening act for teabaggin’ asswipe Ted Nugent.
 

more facial hair after the jump

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Posted by Marc Campbell
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08.03.2010
03:03 am
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Picos on blast: Systema Solar and Colombia’s bad-ass sound system culture
08.03.2010
02:06 am
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The speakers of El Dragon
 
As familiar as we are with the Jamaican sound system tradition, it shouldn’t surprise us wherever we find the grass-roots praxis of bumping bass through massive speakers in a non-club setting. Witness for example the pico sound systems of the Colombian port city of Barranquilla off the Caribbean Sea, which like their Jamaican counterparts have been in effect since at least the ‘50s.

People debate the origin of the term pico—is it derived from pick-up trucks that transport the speakers, or from the common practice of picking up the needle on a popular record to start again? But there’s no debate that these systems are a crucial way for underground DJs to break tunes from tons of genres, including cumbia, salsa, calypso, dancehall reggae, soukous, champeta (a Carribean-tinged northern Colombian boogie style), Afrobeat and more.

Plus, any pico worth its salt seems to be obsessive enough about its name and theme that it gets its speakers hand-painted accordingly, with imagery ranging from Camacho Indian hunters to burly combat tanks.

The seven-piece Systema Solar seems to be the savviest group to have emerged from the pico scene—they’ve leveraged their versatility into a touring outfit, and have played throughout Europe and parts of the US. As you’ll see here, they know how to harken back to their roots…
 

 
After the jump: El Gran Fidel, plus the New York-based Dutty Artz crew documents how bananas it gets at a pico dance, complete with speaker-diving and hose-downs from the local fire brigade…
 

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Posted by Ron Nachmann
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08.03.2010
02:06 am
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