Black Joy features live footage of Psychic TV performing in Manchester in 1988 and the Subterrania Club in London in 1991.

A collaboration between the band and film maker Karen Bentham, Black Joy was previously only available as two separate VHS tapes. You can purchase it on DVD at See Of Sound’s website or, thanks to the always generous folks at SOS, you can watch it here. The DVD does come with a bunch of extra bells and whistles.
 

 
Pete Townshend recorded this radio commercial for the United States Air Force while the Vietnam War was raging. U.S. troop levels had reached 463,000 with 16,000 combat deaths to date. Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese civilians had been killed by this point. Were any of them happy, Jack?

The upbeat tone of the music and Townshend’s inane and utterly clueless inducement to “fly the skies, touch the moon and reach for the stars” reduces the Vietnam nightmare to a fairytale vision out of The Little Prince. “It’s a great place to be”...unless you’re on the ground deep-fried in napalm.

I always knew Pete Townshend had his head up his ass I just didn’t realize how far.
 

 
Ian McKellen recites a Shakespeare sonnet while The Fleshtones zone out in the background at Warhol’s Factory in 1987.

This is one of those things that language can’t encapsulate. Not so much because it’s something wondrous or epic, it’s not. But because it is just so inexplicably Zen… as most inexplicable things are.

Broadcast on MTV as part of the last episode of “Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes” TV program.
 

 
Hey there Los Angeles DM readers ! My good friends in the band Bell Gardens have conspired to get me to leave my comfy valley hovel next Monday night and come play some records with them at their ongoing residency at a joint called Footsies. Come have a drinky and listen to some cool old school noise rock dudes, Kennneth James Gibson (Furry Things and tons of techno projects), Brian McBride (Stars of the Lid) and I, your humble blogger play a bunch of wonderful records. Below are a few of my solo Dangerous Minds Radio Hour episodes to give you an idea of my kinda randomness.
 
Dangerous Minds Radio Hour Episode 17

 
Dangerous Minds Radio Hour Episode 14

 
Dangerous Minds Radio Hour Episode 9

 
This one is controversial for very different reasons to Mohammed Al-Fayed;s Michael Jackson statue. Fans of the King of Pop have been bombarding Premises studios in East London with hate mail after it unveiled the new work by Swedish artist Maria von Köhler, a recreation of Jackson’s infamous “baby dangling” moment. This makes me wonder if these same fans were angry with Jackson for the incident itself, or just upset at being reminded of it. Ironically von Köhler said she intended the work to be a commentary on fandom. Personally, I think it’s better than the other one, even if it makes MJ look more like Naboo from the Mighty Boosh.
 

 
Via the Daily Mail, of all places.

Previously on DM:
Soccer fans can go to Hell, as Michael Jackson statue unveiled

 
Weirdo Atlanta GA-based “flower punk” group, Black Lips have claimed the inspiration for their insane live shows from the like of Viennese Actionists and death rocker G.G. Allin. If this doesn’t sound like your cup of vomit… or urine, then it’s probably best to stay clear of the front rows.

For their latest single, “Modern Art,” Black Lips tapped Dangerous Minds pal Brian Butler (we posted about his “Night of Pan” film with Kenneth Anger and Vincent Gallo here) to direct this quirky, off-kilter hoodoo clip. Co-starring “a human skull, a rooster, a bomb blast, and more fun than you can manage.”
 

 
A classic concert of Bob Marley and The Wailers from the Uprising tour, recorded live in Dortmund, Germany, June 12, 1980.

Track Listing

01. “Natural Mystic”
02. “Positive Vibration”
03. “Revolution”
04. “I Shot The Sheriff”
05. “War” / “No More Trouble”
06. “Zimbabwe”
07. “Jammin’”
08. “No Woman, No Cry”
09. “Zion Train”
10. “Exodus”
11. “Redemption Song”
12. “Could You Be Loved?”
13. “Work”
14. “Natty Dread”
15. “Is This Love?”
16. “Get Up, Stand Up”
17. “Coming In From The Cold”
18. “Lively Up Yourself”
 

 
Previously on DM

 
This’ll start to make you feel really woozy by around the minute and a half mark if you can make it that far. Clearly, Giorgio Longdo is Canada’s Mario Lanza.
 

 
What’s that ? You need more ?

 
Thanks Tony Coulter !

 
Oh dear, who’s going to want to eat those grapes now?

(via This Is Not Porn)

 
In 2009 to “commemorate”  the 40th anniversary of the release of his Space Oddity album—also known as squeezing another buck out of the back catalog—David Bowie and Virgin/EMI released an iPhone app with the multi-track stems from the title tune. Remixing the song on your iPhone set you back $2 bucks.

On June 6th, there’s going to be another Bowie multi-track iPhone app “celebration,” this one for “Golden Years”. Geekier Bowie fans will be able to manipulate Bowie’s vocals; the backing vocals; the 12-string guitar; guitar; bass; drums; harmonium and percussion (including blocks, congas, claps).

If you’ve heard the 5.1 surround remix of Station to Station, recently released in an obscenely expensive box set, it’s easy to imagine that any Bowie fan could make a better surround mix of “Golden Years” than heard there. (I couldn’t wait to hear it and it’s just terrible, a huge disappointment as I love that album. And it’s not just me, every review I’ve read of it is bad).

Below, Bowie lip-syncs “Golden Years” on Soul Train.
 

 
Thank you Syd Garon of Los Angeles, CA!